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Prof

Michelle Brown

Professor
Management and Marketing
performance management
performance appraisal
employee share ownership
pay transparency
performance feedback
pay secrecy
negative performance feedback
employee cynicism
social sciences
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Prof

Michelle Brown

 
Division
Business and Economics
 
Primary Interest
Performance and reward management
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Projects

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Understanding employee share participation rates & engagement

2017 - 2018
Completed
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PAY ALIGNMENT: FACT OR FALLACY?

The project will make an important contribution to our understanding of the impact of employee pay system configuration on firm performance ..

2010 - 2012
Completed
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Employment systems and organisational outcomes: Managing employee expectations through HRM practice

This project contributes to our understanding of the factors that influence organisational effectiveness. Australian employers are facing co..

2006 - 2009
Completed
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THE PSYCHOLOGICAL CONTRACT: BRIDGING HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT PRACTICES AND ORGANISATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS

Many managers believe that recent changes in management practice are responsible for Australia's high labour productivity but very little is..

2006 - 2008
Completed
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Employment systems and organisational outcomes: Managing employee expectations through HRM practice

This project contributes to our understanding of the factors that influence organisational effectiveness. Australian employers are facing co..

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The psychological contract: Bridging human resource management practices and organisational effectiveness

Many managers believe that recent changes in management practice are responsible for Australia's high labour productivity but very little is..

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Research Contracts

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Research Grant

Scholarly Works

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Pay Information Disclosure: Review and Recommendations for Research Spanning the Pay Secrecy-Pay Transparency Continuum

Michelle Brown, Anthony J Nyberg, Ingo Weller, Sam D Striver

Journal article  |  2022  |  JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT

The amount and type of pay information made available by organizations to employees and between employees can have important effec..

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Benefit of the doubt: the buffering influence of normative contracts on the breach–workplace performance relationship

C Cregan, Carol T Kulik, I Metz, Michelle Brown

Journal article  |  2021  |  International Journal of Human Resource Management

This study investigates the influence of employees' perception of managerial breach of the normative relational contract (i.e. the..

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Managing voluntary collective turnover: the impact of a cynical workplace climate

Michelle Brown, Christina Cregan, Carol T Kulik, Isabel Metz

Journal article  |  2021  |  PERSONNEL REVIEW

Purpose: Voluntary collective turnover can be costly for workplaces. The authors investigate the effectiveness of high-performance..

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High Performance Work Practices, Collective Quits and Workplace Cynicism (Abstract)

M Brown, CT Kulik, C Cregan, I Metz

Journal article  |  2021  |  Personnel Review

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Performance Appraisal Cynicism Among Managers: a Job Demands Resources Perspective

M Brown, ML Kraimer, VK Bratton

Journal article  |  2020  |  Journal of Business and Psychology

This study aims to investigate the antecedents and consequences of manager’s performance appraisal cynicism (PA cynicism). Based o..

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The influence of employee performance appraisal cynicism on intent to quit and sportsmanship

Michelle Brown, Maria L Kraimer, Virginia K Bratton

Journal article  |  2020  |  Personnel Review

Purpose Using job demands–resources (JD–R) theory, the purpose of this paper is to investigate the role of job demands (difficult ..

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Managing Employee Performance and Reward: Systems, Practices and Prospects (third edition)

John Shields, Jim Rooney, Michelle Brown, Sarah Kaine

Book  |  2020

The third edition of Managing employee performance and reward: systems, practices and prospects has been thoroughly revised and up..

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Paying for performance: An international comparison

M Brown, JS Heywood

Book  |  2019

Although performance pay is used in many industrialized nations, the structure and success of this pay system vary widely dependin..

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Paying for performance: What has been learned?

M Brown, JS Heywood

Book Chapter  |  2019

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Paying for performance setting the stage

M Brown, JS Heywood

Book Chapter  |  2019

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Keyword Analysis

Management and Productivity
Human Resources and Industrial Relations
Strategy, Management and Organisational Behaviour
Business Systems in Context
Expanding Knowledge
Applied Economics
Commercial Law
Justice and the Law
Macroeconomics
Policy and Administration

News

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Pay secrecy clauses are now banned in Australia; here's how that could benefit you

Michelle Brown, Leanne Griffin

Do you work for an organisation that treats pay information like a state secret? Do you know what your coworkers get paid? Can you tell oth..

December 5, 2022
conversation Article
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Doing away with the annual performance review? More feedback isn't necessarily better

Michelle Brown

For many employees the end of the financial year signals performance review time. The dreaded time of the year when they sit down with thei..

July 4, 2017
conversation Article
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If you want high performers, kill pay secrecy

Michelle Brown

Beyond work-life balance, the gender pay gap is the biggest concern of women in Australian workplaces, according to a new survey of 9,500 w..

October 18, 2015
conversation Article
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To close the gender pay gap we need to end pay secrecy

Michelle Brown

Women in full-time work take home A$283.20 per week less than their male counterparts, according to the Workplace Gender Equality Agenc..

September 16, 2014
conversation Article

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Honours, Awards and Fellowships

2006

Deans Certificate of Excellent Undergrudate Teaching in 2005, Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Melbourne.

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Credentials

Positions

Professor

Management and Marketing

Human Resource Management

Academy of Management (AoM)

Human Resource Management

Austtralian Human Resources Institute (AHRI)

Education

Doctor of Philosophy

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Bachelor of Commerce

University of Melbourne

Master of Arts

University of Melbourne

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