Rate My Professor Jim Kitay

Kitay's research encompasses employment relations, industrial relations, and management consulting. He co-edited Changing Employment Relations in Australia (Oxford University Press, 1997) with Russell Lansbury, examining changes in work organization, staffing, skill formation, pay, and performance amid declining union membership and employer strategies like lean production. The study covered industries including domestic airlines, automotive, retail banking, information technology, steel, and telecommunications, in collaboration with MIT researchers such as Tom Kochan. With Chris Wright, he explored management consultants critically, drawing on labour process theory and sociology of work literature (Kitay and Wright 2004). Key publications include 'From Prophets to Profits: The Occupational Rhetoric of Management Consultants' (2007), 'Take the Money and Run? Organisational Boundaries and Consultants' Roles' (2004), 'Diversity and Change in Work and Employment Relations' (2006), and 'The Role and Challenge of Case Study Design in Industrial Relations Research' (2018). As a member of the Business and Labour History Group, he investigates 'A history of occupational health nursing in NSW,' tracing nurses' roles in workplaces from the early 1900s to the early 2000s, including social, organisational, legislative contexts, associations, and educational arrangements. His work has 33 publications and 679 citations on ResearchGate.