Prof Patrick Gunnigle Guest Speaker at NMMU Business School Strategic Conversations

4 August 2014, Port Elizabeth – Prof Patrick Gunnigle, a Professor of Business Studies at the University of Limerick in Ireland , will be the guest speaker at the next instalment of NMMU Business School’s Strategic Conversations.

Prof Gunnigle will engage with private and public stakeholders of NMMU and the Business School around "HRM in recession and after: an analysis of the impact of the global financial crisis on workforce management in a highly globalised economy."

He will further lecture both Port Elizabeth Part-Time Strategic HR and Block Release programme students, during their last trimester study visit to the Business School.

A graduate of University College Dublin (B.Comm, 1977; MBS, 1978) and Cranfield School of Management (PhD, 1995), he has authored, co-authored or edited 18 books and over 100 refereed journal papers and book chapters. His research has been published in the leading journals in his field such as the Journal of International Business Studies, the British Journal of Industrial Relations, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Industrial Relations and the Journal of World Business.

A former Fulbright Scholar and Marie Curie Exchange Scholar, Prof Gunnigle is a member of the editorial boards of the Human Resource Management Journal, Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources, South African Journal of Human Resource Management, Industrial Relations Journal and Employee Relations: The International Journal. He is also former co-editor of the Irish Journal of Management.

He holds Visiting Professor Appointments at Sorbonne Université Paris II (Pantheon-Assas) and Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University and has delivered distinguished lectures and invited presentations at several leading universities and business schools in Australia, Canada, China, South Africa and the US.

He was the 2013 recipient of the University of Limerick Excellence in Research Award and was thereby bestowed with the title University Research Fellow 2013-16. In 2009, he received the award of inaugural Fellow of the Irish Academy of Management in acknowledgement of his distinguished contribution to academia and the study of business and management in Ireland. Prof Gunnigle is also a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (FCIPD).

His research interests include international business/multinational companies, human resource management (HRM), trade union membership and recognition, management strategies in industrial relations, and the role of HRM specialists. His research has attracted financial support from the European Union's Framework 7 programme, the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences, the Irish Research Council and the Economic and Social Research Council (UK).