Candice Harris

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Dr. Candice Harris

Senior Lecturer
Management and Employment Relations
Faculty of Business
Auckland University of Technology
Auckland, New Zealand

Phone: 649 921 9999
Email: candice.harris@aut.ac.nz

 

Dr Candice Harris joined AUT in 2004 as a Senior Lecturer in Management. Prior to joining AUT, she has held academic positions since 1994, firstly at Wellington Polytechnic and then Massey University Wellington. She has a BBS(Hons) and MBS from Massey University and a PhD from Victoria University Wellington.

Candice teaches courses in Human Resource Management and International Human Resource Management at the undergraduate level. Her involvement in post-graduate teaching is with the course Advanced Human Resource Management. She is supervising post-graduate students in topics including workplace bullying, motivation of part-time employees, cultural adjustment by Chinese migrants to the New Zealand workplace and Italian women travellers.

Her involvement with research institutes is as a member of the New Zealand Tourism Research Institute based at AUT and as an Invited Honorary Research Associate of the New Zealand Centre for Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) Research based at Massey University. Currently she is involved through the SME Centre in research projects in which researchers are interviewing SME owner-managers throughout New Zealand on issues such as business lifecycles, transitions to growth, business assistance and human resource management. Her work with the centre has also seen her involved in the research and publication of a government report on the Status of Women in Self-Employment, a presentation to a government working party on work life balance, and as a co-author for two chapters for an upcoming text book on SMEs in New Zealand.

She is also one of the founders of the international group of academics - Gender Researchers in Tourism (GRITS). Candice is also one of the four organisers of the first international conference on critical tourism studies - Embodying Tourism Research: Advancing Critical Approaches. This conference is being held in Dubrovnik, Croatia June 2005 and will be attended by academics from around the world. She also has close links with researchers at University of Wales Institute, Cardiff and Southern Cross University, Brisbane.

Qualifications:
- BBus(Hons) in Management
- Master of Business Studies in Management
- PhD in Tourism Management
- Advanced Certificate in Tertiary Teaching

 

Research Interests

Human Resource Management
People in Small and Medium Enterprises
Gender and Tourism
Business Travel

Human Resource Management
People in Small and Medium Enterprises
Gender and Tourism
Business Travel

Expertise in Degree and Postgraduate Teaching:
Human resource management
International human resource management
General management
Tourism

Interests in Research Supervision:
Human resource management issues
Business travel and employee mobility
Gender issues in business
Critical issues in tourism
Qualitative methodologies

Current Research:
Human resource management in New Zealand small and medium enterprises
Strategies of auidencing and reflexivity in critical tourism research
Annual leave practices in New Zealand.