Charmine Hartel

Distinguished Professor, Associate Dean Research Impact, Director Opportunity Tech Lab, Monash University
Professor Charmine E. J. Härtel (PhD, FASSA, FAHRI, FCHRI, FAIM, FANZAM) is Distinguished Professor, Associate Dean Research Impact, and Founding Director of the Opportunity Tech Lab at Monash University Business School in Melbourne, Australia. She is an Honourary Professor at The University of Queensland Business School, Brisbane, Australia and Co-Director of the Queensland Neurodiversity Employment Incubator©. She is an acknowledged preeminent scholar-practitioner in her field, evidenced by election as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia (ASSA) and Queensland Academy of Arts and Sciences (QAAS), the (US) Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP), the Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management (FANZAM), as well as an elected member of the Society for Organizational Behavior in Australia (SOBA) and Professional Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management (FAIM) and Australian Human Resources Institute (FCAHRI). Her awards include the inaugural AHRI HR Academic Award, Australian Psychological Society’s prestigious Elton Mayo Award for scholarly excellence, the Martin E. P. Seligman Applied Research Award, and the Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management (ANZAM) Research Supervision Excellence Award. She is the awardee of more than AUD$3.3million in Australian Research Council (ARC) grants and over $1.3 million for commissioned research. She is past President of ANZAM, Founder and Chair of the Senior HRM Executives Roundtable, Co-Founder of the Key Centre for Human Factors and Applied Cognitive Psychology, Co-Founder and Co-Organizer of the International Conference on Emotions and Organizational Life, and Past Division Chair and Executive Team Member of the Gender and Diversity in Organizations Division of the U.S. Academy of Management (comprising 770 U.S. members & 401 non-US members).

Professor Härtel is a leading global authority on workplace diversity and inclusion, co-founder of the study of emotions in organizations, and pioneer in the newly developing field of fostering employment and entrepreneurship of under-represented groups. Her internationally recognized research program is building holistic theory and evidence-based practice on ways to address disadvantage in employment and entrepreneurship. Her work appears in over 100 book chapters and encyclopedia entries and over 600 refereed journal articles including Academy of Management Review, Journal of Applied Psychology, Leadership Quarterly, Journal of Business Venturing, Human Relations, and Journal of Management. She is Series Co-Editor of Research on Emotion in Organizations. She is primary author of a wholly original Australian HRM textbook, shortlisted across all university disciplines for the Australian Awards for Educational Publishing; the book emphasizes HRM as a process and viewing the employment relationship from a wellbeing perspective. She is past Editor in Chief of Journal of Management & Organization (the official journal of the Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management), past Associate Editor of Academy of Management Learning & Education and Journal of Managerial Psychology, and current editorial board member on numerous journals including Organizational Psychology Review, Human Relations, and British Journal of Management. The scholarly impact of her work is demonstrated by 15,508 citations in Google Scholar, an h-index of 58, i10-index of 158), and 4,062 citations in Scopus (h = 32), receipt of 19 best paper awards and inclusion of her 2002 piece in the top 50 most cited articles of the decade for Leadership Quarterly.

The high social impact of her translational research is evidenced by numerous international awards, including 5 awards for innovation in organisational practice. Examples include, co-development of PCC Method to improve physiological and psychological wellbeing of medical students and doctors, patients and their caregivers; business applications of her methodologies for quality decision-making in stressful environments (e.g., U.S. Naval Training Center’s cockpit crew decision-making training; AirServices’ degraded modes procedures and training), effective execution of change strategy (e.g., Palladium’s 4C Model), health-focused leadership and safety climate (e.g., Queensland nursing program; U.S. Federal Aviation Administration crew resource management guidelines), positive workforce integration (e.g., Australia Post’s diversity climate practices, Rio Tinto Iron Ore’s procurement system to support Aboriginal contractors in Pilbara), talent management (e.g., Australian Public Service), ethical leadership development program (e.g., Victorian Department of Transport), development of psychological capital (e.g., Victorian SES), organisational culture transformation (e.g., Victorian State Service Authority’s Positive Work Environments Toolkit to address workplace bullying). Other examples include her appointment as an expert advisor for the European Union workplace diversity forum, publication of Diversity at Work: The Practice of Inclusion in the prestigious SIOP Professional Practice Series, and frequent invited keynotes at leading events (e.g., APEC, Autism @ Work Summit, Diversity Council Australia, Australian Institute of Management, Australian Human Resources Institute, ADC Future Summit, Pride in Diversity).

Professor Härtel is widely regarded as a leader in the development of early career scholars, which has been formally recognized with the prestigious Janet Chusmir Service Award from the (US) Academy of Management, supervisor awards from two universities (Monash, Deakin), and the ANZAM Research Supervision Excellence Award. Her former PhD students hold key positions in both academia (e.g., UQ, Monash, Griffith, Deakin, Swinburne, Flinders, RMIT, Macquarie, Sunway, University of Edingburgh) and practice (e.g., Infosys, Amcor, Australian Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility). She has taught in university and executive programs in the USA, Australia, Germany, Italy, Singapore, and Sweden.