Rate My Professor Gerry Treuren

Dr. Gerry Treuren, Senior Lecturer in the School of Management within the College of Business and Law at Adelaide University, holds a PhD in Economic History from the University of New England, a Master of Economics in Industrial Relations from the University of Sydney, and a Bachelor of Commerce in Economics from the University of New South Wales. His research examines employee retention and turnover, including the implications of employee-client relationships on organizational attachment, antecedents and consequences of employee embeddedness such as client and off-the-job embeddedness, and the effects of job demands and resources on performance. He also studies volunteer management, encompassing how volunteers select organizations and events, the development of volunteer role identity, and leveraging non-volunteer skillsets. Further interests include skill discounting and job-seeking challenges faced by migrants and refugees, as well as strategies for matching employees and employers, employee turnover, and volunteer attraction, recruitment, and retention.

Treuren collaborates with prominent community-based not-for-profit organizations, researching preparations for consumer-directed care funding, turnover prediction, and volunteer involvement in organizational development. He is eligible to supervise Masters and PhD students and available for media commentary. His scholarly output features in journals including Journal of Health Organization and Management, Journal of Industrial Relations, Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources, Australasian Journal on Ageing, Cornell Hospitality Quarterly, Evidence-based HRM, International Journal of Human Resource Management, and Nonprofit Management and Leadership. Key publications comprise "Why do aged care employees leave? Two explanations compared" (2025), "Coloniality of employment selection processes: black Africa-born migrants' experiences of job-seeking in (White) Australia" (2025), "The Australian human resource management profession: current state and future challenges in the post-COVID world of work" (2025), "The importance of external social support for workplace-related stress as we grow older" (2024), "Disability employment in the hospitality industry: a systematic literature review" (2023), "Off-the-job embeddedness moderates work intensity on employee stress" (2022), and "The gendered consequences of skill-discounting for migrants" (2021).