The University of Western Australia

W/Prof David Plowman

Winthrop Professor
Management and Organisations

Contact details

Address

Management and Organisations
The University of Western Australia (M261)
35 Stirling Highway
CRAWLEY WA 6009
Australia

Phone

6488 3984

Fax

6488 1072

Email

david.plowman@uwa.edu.au

Qualifications

OStJ, BEc W.Aust., MA Melb., GradDipT S.Aust., PhD Flin., FAIM, FASSA

Biography

David Plowman is a Winthrop Professor in UWA Business School. From 1993 to 1999 he was the Foundation Director of the Graduate School of Management at UWA. Prior to this appointment he was the Professor of Industrial Relations and Organisational Behaviour at the University of New South Wales. Professor Plowman holds an Honours degree in Economics from The University of Western Australia. He won a scholarship to Melbourne University where he completed his Master of Arts degree in industrial relations. He completed his doctorate on the role of employer associations in Australian wage determination at the Flinders University of South Australia. He holds Graduate Diploma in Teaching from the University of South Australia. In 1994 Professor Plowman was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia in recognition of his scholarly achievements. These include the authoring or co-authoring over 20 books and over 130 journal articles. His writings have been in the areas of wage determination, employer associations, trade unions and Australian industrial relations.

Key research

Wage Determination Compulsory Arbitration Employer Associations

Publications

Career 10 best

Holding the Line: Compulsory Arbitration and National Employer Co-Ordination in Australia, Cambridge University Press, Melbourne, 1989, 280 pp.

Bargaining Structure, Award Respondency and Employer Associations (With M. Rimmer). Industrial Relations Research Centre, UNSW, 1992, 232 pp. Reprinted 1994.

Industrial Relations: A Contemporary Analysis (with S. Deery and J. Walsh) McGraw Hill, Sydney, 1997, 408 pp. Second edition 2001.

“Unions in Conflict: The Victorian Trades Hall Split 1967-1973”, Labour History, No. 36, 1979, pp. 27-69. Reprinted in G. W. Ford and D.H. Plowman (eds), Australian Unions an Industrial Relations Perspective, Macmillan, Melbourne, 1983, pp. 303-325.

“Industrial Legislation and the Rise of Employer Associations, 1890-1906”, The Journal of Industrial Relations, 27 (3), 1985, pp. 283-309.

“Moulding Federal Arbitration: the Employers and the High Court 1904-1930”, (with G.Smith) The Australian Journal of Management, 10 (4), 1986, pp. 1-30.

“Employer Associations and Industrial Reactivity”, Labour and Industry, 1 (2) 1988, pp. 287-305. Reproduced in G. Griffin, B. Dabscheck and G. Teicher (eds), Industrial Relations Readings, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1992, pp. 178-191.

“Protecting the Low Income Earner: Minimum Wage Determination in Australia”, The Economic and Labour Relations Review, vol 6, no 2, 1995, pp. 252-287.

“Determining the Minimum Wage: A Household Expenditure Approach”, (with J. Taplin and J. Henstridge), The Economic and Labour Relations Review, vol 7, no 2, 1996, pp. 254-271.

“The Origins of Compulsory Arbitration in Western Australia”, (with G. Calkin) The Journal of Industrial Relations, vol. 46, no 1, 2004.

Recent Publications

Book Chapters (Commercial)

Plowman, D.H.J. (2004), Employers' Association and Compulsory Arbitration in The New Province for Law and Order: 100 Years of Australian Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.

Plowman, D.H.J. “Industrial Relations”, in J. Gregory and J. Gothard (eds) Historical Encyclopedia of Western Australia, UWA Press, Crawley (in press)

Plowman, D.H.J. “Trade Unions”, in J. Gregory and J. Gothard (eds) Historical Encyclopedia of Western Australia, UWA Press, Crawley (in press)

Journal Articles (Schol Refereed Journal)

Tan, H.P, Plowman, D & Hancock,P (2008).”The Evolving Research On Intellectual Capital.” Journal of Intellectual Capital. Vol. 9, No 4. (in press)

Tan, H.P., Plowman, D.H.J., Hancock, P. (2007), “Intellectual Capital and Financial Returns Of Companies”, Journal of Intellectual Capital, vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 76-95.

Plowman, D.H.J. (2007), “Brother Conlon and the Tardun Farm School”, Journal of the Australian Catholic Historical Society, September, vol. 28, No. 1, pp. 53-65.

Plowman, D.H.J. (2005), “The Origins of a Debate: A reply to Segal”, Journal of Industrial Relations, vol. 47, no. 3, pp. 361-363.

Plowman, D.H.J., Preston, A. (2005), “The New Industrial Relations: Portents for the Lowly Paid”, Journal of Australian Political Economy, December, No. 56, pp. 224-243.

Plowman, D.H.J., Calkin, G. (2004), “The Origins of Compulsory Arbitration in Western Australia”, Journal of Industrial Relations, vol. 46, No. 1, pp. 53-83.

Major Report

Report to the WA Industrial Relations Commission on the Minimum Wage, Perth, May, 2006.

Extract of Conference Paper

Hancock, P., Tan, H.P., Plowman, D.H.J. (2005) “Intellectual Capital and Financial Returns of Singapore Publicly Listed Companies: An Exploratory Study”, European Accounting Association, Goteborg, Sweden, n/a, pp. n/a.

Memberships

Member, Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia & NZ
Member, Australian Society for the Study of Labour History
Member, Industrial Relations Society of Australia
Member, Industrial Relations Research Association (U.S.A.)
Member, International Industrial Relations Association

Honours and awards

Fellow, Academy of Social Sciences in Australia
Fellow, Australian Institute of Management
Senior Honorary Fellow of the Corporate Directors’ Association of Australia
Knight of Grace, The Sovereign Order of St John Of Jerusalem (Knights of Malta)
Recipient of Award “Outstanding Contributions to Postgraduate Business Education at UWA”, presented by UWA Business School and GMA, 2007.
Recipient of “Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning”, UWA Business School, 2008.

Previous positions

2006 - June 2009, Director, Postgraduate Programs, UWA Business School
2007 - 2008, Chair, Academic Board, The University of Western Australia
2001 - 2006, Professor, The Graduate School of Management, The University of Western Australia.
1993 - 2000, Director, The Graduate School of Management, The University of Western Australia.
1990-1992, Professor of Industrial Relations, University of New South Wales; Director, Industrial Relations Research Centre, University of New South Wales
1989-1992, Head, School of Industrial Relations and Organizational Behaviour, University of New South Wales
1988, Associate Professor, School of Economics, University of New South Wales. Acting Head, School of Industrial Relations and Organizational Behaviour
1981-1987, Senior Lecturer, School of Economics, University of New South Wales
1978-1980, Lecturer, School of Economics, University of New South Wales
1976-1977, Lecturer, Elton Mayo School of Management, South Australian Institute of Technology
1975, Tutor, Labour Economics and Industrial Relations, University of Melbourne
1973-1974, Personnel Manager, then Manager, Gardening Division, R.S. Linfoot & Co. Pty. Ltd; Part-time tutor, University of Western Australia
1970-1972, Senior Economics Master, Highgate, W.A.
1967-1969, Economics Master, Blackburn, Victoria
1963-1966, School Teacher, Victoria
1960-1962, Teacher Trainee, State College of Victoria

Teaching

Research Methods
Industrial Relations
Wage Determination

Current external positions

1994- Present, Member (ad hoc) of UWA Senate Committee, Promotions to Professor; Member, Editorial Board, The Economic and Labour Relations Review
2002- Present, Chair, Child Migrants of Malta.

Consultancy has been undertaken for the following organisations:
Australian Airpilots' Federation
Australian Institute of Marine and Power Engineers
Australian Employers of Waterside Labour
Australian Manufacturing Council
Bureau of Labour Market Research
Business Council of Australia
Department of Employment and Industrial Relations (NSW)
Department of Employment, Education and Training
Department of Employment, Workplace Relations and Small Business
Department of Labour and Productivity (WA)
Electricity Trust of South Australia
Federated Iron Workers' Association
Housing Industry Association of Australia
Japan Export Trade Research Organisation
Main Roads Western Australia
Minister for Labour Relations (WA)
N.S.W. Department of Employment and Industrial Relations
New South Wales Trades and Labor Council
Western Australian Industrial Relations Commission
Western Australian Noodle Wheat Growers Association

Research profile

Research profile and publications