Rate My Professor Alan Nankervis

Professor Alan Nankervis serves as Adjunct Professor in the School of Management and Marketing within the Faculty of Business and Law at Curtin University. He holds a Doctor of Business Administration (DBA), Bachelor of Social Administration (B.Soc.Admin.), and BA (Hons). With more than 30 years of academic experience, he has held positions at the University of Western Sydney, Curtin University, and RMIT University, alongside teaching and research roles at universities in the United Kingdom, Canada, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, China, and India. At Curtin University, his appointments include Deputy Director of the Graduate School of Business from 1995 to February 1999 and Senior Lecturer in the School of Management from 1999. He has also served as MBA Director, Research Coordinator, and HRM Program Director.

Professor Nankervis's research specializations encompass human resource strategy, international human resource management, human resource management in the services sector, comparative Asian human resource management, graduate work-readiness in the Asia-Pacific region, and the impacts of artificial intelligence and robotic technologies on future labour markets and jobs. He has produced over 150 scholarly publications, including co-authorship of the leading textbook Human Resource Management (multiple editions, with Marian Baird, Jane Coffey, and John Shields, latest 2025), editorship of Asia Pacific Human Resource Management and Organisational Effectiveness: Impacts on Practice (2016), and editorship of The Fourth Industrial Revolution: Answering the Call for Transformational Change (2021, with Julia Connell, Alan Montague, and John Burgess). Key recent works include 'Mapping the evolution of algorithmic HRM (AHRM)' (2024, Humanities and Social Sciences Communications) and articles on performance management theory in practice (2006) and capabilities for digitised human resource management (2022). He has supervised numerous master's and doctoral theses and co-edited the journal Research and Practice in Human Resource Management from 2001 to 2011. Among his honors, Professor Nankervis is a Life Fellow of the Australian HR Institute (FCPHRLife), inductee in its Hall of Fame, and recipient of the ANZAM 2018 Human Resource Management Stream Paper Award.