Rate My Professor Giles Hirst

Giles Hirst is Professor of Leadership at the Research School of Management, Australian National University, holding the inaugural Chair of Leadership within the College of Business and Economics. He earned his PhD from Melbourne Business School and serves as a Visiting Fellow at Judge Business School, University of Cambridge. An award-winning educator, his primary research interests encompass leadership, innovation and creativity at work, refugee employment, human-AI creative collaboration, and technology's role in organizational contexts. Hirst connects psychological analyses of leadership and innovation with practical implications for industries, including partnerships with the Australian Public Service, Microsoft, AstraZeneca, and BHP. He leads several funded projects, such as the ARC Discovery Project "Building worker & technology partnerships that maximise human-AI creativity" (2025-2028) and "Artificial Intelligence as a Means of Persuasion and Attitude Change" (2025-2026).

Hirst has authored numerous influential publications in premier journals including Journal of Applied Psychology, Academy of Management Review, Journal of Management, and Human Resource Management Journal. Notable contributions include "A Cross-Level Perspective on Employee Creativity" (2009), "Psychological Capital: A Review and Synthesis" (2014, Journal of Organizational Behavior), "Heard it through the grapevine: Indirect networks and employee creativity" (2015, Journal of Applied Psychology), "A Motivational Lens Model of Person X Situation Interactions in Employee Creativity" (2020, Journal of Applied Psychology), and "Refugee recruitment and workplace integration: An opportunity for human resource management scholarship and impact" (2021). His scholarship has amassed over 11,000 citations, underscoring its impact on understanding leadership dynamics and employee innovation. Professionally, he holds key editorial roles as Consulting Editor for Journal of Applied Psychology, Associate Editor for Journal of Organizational Behavior, and board member for British Journal of Management and Journal of Personnel Psychology.