Associate Professor
Penny Williams

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Faculty of Business & Law,
School of Management


Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  • SDG 5 - Gender Equality
  • SDG 8 - Decent Work and Economic Growth

Personal details

Positions

Associate Professor
Faculty of Business & Law,
School of Management

Keywords

flexible work, digital economy, platform work, human resource management, algorithmic management, artificial intelligence, strategic HRM, organisational change, decent work

Research field

Business and Management

Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2008

Qualifications

  • PhD (Mgt) (Queensland University of Technology)
  • Bachelor of Commerce (Griffith University)

Professional memberships and associations


Teaching

Penny's teaching has comprised unit coordination, lecturing (in-person and online), tutoring and workshop facilitation at under-graduate and post-graduate levels, and the supervision of higher degree research students. Her teaching areas are in Management and Human Resource Management, including strategic HRM. Penny is an experienced presenter and workshop facilitator who has delivered workshops on workforce planning and analytics for government, industry and QUT graduate school of business.  Penny developed and delivered a series of video lectures on Professional Presentation skills which have been used to support international students and sessional academics new to Australia. She has also co-created the "Real World HR" podcast series of interviews with HR professionals used to support the learning of under-graduate and post-graduate HRM students at QUT. Teaching Awards include:

  • QUT Vice Chancellor's Performance Award 2017
  • QUT Sessional Teaching and Reflection Showcase, Grand Finalist 2016

Experience

Publications

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A complete list of publications is available at: https://www.qut.edu.au/about/our-people/academic-profiles/p54.williams

Selected research projects

Projects listed above are funded by Australian Competitive Grants. Projects funded from other sources are not listed due to confidentiality agreements.

Supervision

Current supervisions

  • The right to refuse: The legal dimensions of automated people management in Australia
    MPhil, Principal Supervisor
    Other supervisors: Professor Paula McDonald
  • Exploring User Resistance Behaviour in Human Resource Information Systems
    PhD, Principal Supervisor
    Other supervisors: Associate Professor Xiaowen Hu
  • Cobots intervention for a diverse Australian manufacturing workforce
    PhD, Principal Supervisor
    Other supervisors: Professor Greg Hearn, Dr Melinda Laundon
  • The application of collaborative robots in manufacturing: A study of work design and motivational potential
    PhD, Principal Supervisor
    Other supervisors: Professor Greg Hearn