University of Glamorgan

Prof Michael Sheehan

Co-Director, Centre for Research on Workplace Behaviours
Business School

Tel 00 44 (0) 1443 483656
Room: H222

Qualifications

BCom, MSc, PhD, GCHE (Griffith Uni) FCIPD

About

Michael Sheehan is Professor of Management and a Co-Director of the Centre for Research on Workplace Behaviours, Glamorgan Business School. From December 2004 until October 2007 he was the Head, Department of Leadership, Learning and Management at the aforementioned University. Michael’s interests are in researching and teaching in human resource management and organizational behaviour. His research interests relate primarily to the impact of organisational change on individuals, in particular workplace bullying; and individuals’ experience of learning and implementing new skills such as those of group process facilitation.

In 1997 he was the co-recipient of The Australian Heads of Government Australian Violence Prevention Award 1997, Certificate of Merit, (Joint project with School of OB&HRM, Beyond Bullying Association Inc., & Qld Working Women’s Service).

He has presented a number of conference papers at international conferences, and has been an invited keynote speaker to three of those conferences.

Duties & Responsibilities

Co-Director, Centre for Research on Workplace Behaviours with shared responsibility for the successful running of the centre, including: attracting sufficient research funding to ensure the long term viability of the Centre; enhancing teaching and learning quality through evidence based research outcomes; and promoting research which underpins teaching, facilitates knowledge transfer and achieves national or international standards in workplace behaviours

Experience

Michael has worked in academia on a full-time basis since 1991. He is a respected researcher and teacher. He has been nominated by students on five separate occasions for teaching awards. He has generated over $105,000AUD in research grants in Australia and £42,000GBP since 2005. He has examined a number of doctoral thesis and peer reviewed a range of manuscripts submitted to refereed journals and conferences.

Research

He has published a number of national and international journal articles in refereed journals such as the International Journal of Manpower, The Journal of Occupational Health and Safety-Australia and New Zealand, The Australian Journal of Rehabilitation Counselling, and Industrial and Commercial Training. He has also been the guest editor of special editions related to workplace bullying of the International Journal of Manpower, The Journal of Occupational Health and Safety-Australia and New Zealand and the International Journal of Management and Decision Making.

Michael is the co-editor of the books Bullying: From Backyard to Boardroom, (1996) Millennium Books, Alexandria, Bullying: Causes, Costs and Cures, Beyond Bullying Association, Brisbane, and Bullying: From Backyard to Boardroom, (1999) Kobfai Publishing Co, Thailand, (Translated into Thai). He has published chapters in these books as well as in other books.

Selected Publications

Sheehan, M. & Jordan, P. (2003), ‘Bullying, emotions and the learning organization’, in Einarsen, S., Hoel, H., Zapf, D., & Cooper, C.L. (Eds.), Bullying and Emotional Abuse in the Workplace: International Perspectives in Research and Practice. London: Taylor & Francis, pp. 359-369.

Sheehan, M., Barker, M., & McCarthy, P. (2004) Analysing metaphors used by victims of workplace bullying. International Journal of Management and Decision Making 5(1), pp.21-34.

Mayhew, C. McCarthy, P. Chappell, D. Quinlan, M. Barker, M. and Sheehan, M. (2004), 'Measuring the extent of impact from occupational violence and bullying on traumatized workers’, Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal, 16(3), pp. 117-134.

McCarthy, M. Mayhew, C. Barker, M. and Sheehan, M. (2003), ‘Bullying and occupational violence in tertiary education: risk factors, perpetrators and prevention’, The Journal of Occupational Health and Safety – Australia and New Zealand, 19(4), pp319-326.

Mayhew, C. McCarthy, P. Barker, M. and Sheehan, M. (2003), ‘Student aggression in tertiary education institutions’, The Journal of Occupational Health and Safety – Australia and New Zealand, 19(4), pp. 327-336.

Lewis, D. & Sheehan, M (2003), ‘Workplace bullying: theoretical and practical approaches to a management challenge’, International Journal of Management and Decision Making, 4(1), pp. 1-10.

Professional Memberships

(bullet)* Chartered Fellow, Chartered Institute of Personnel Development (CharteredFCIPD)

• Executive member, European Learning Styles Information Network (ELSIN)
• Member, Academy of Management
• Member, Skills and Education Network, member # 458992
• Member, European Association of Work and Organisational Psychology (EAWOP)

External representation

He is an invited member of: the Programmes Board for Public Sector Management Wales (PSMW); Workplace Dignity Institute Foundation for the Study of Work Trauma, South Africa; the Advisory Board, The Workplace Bullying & Trauma Institute, United States of America, and he is featured in the Who’s Who section of The Journal of Occupational Health and Safety-Australia and New Zealand (1998). He is a Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (Chartered FCIPD). He is an external examiner for Southampton Solent University and for London Southbank University (LSBU).

Consultancy

He has acted as a consultant to a number of Australian public and private sector organisations and has presented a number of seminars and workshops in the public and private sectors since he joined the University of Glamorgan in December 2004. Reports include:

Lewis, D., Sheehan, M., & Mawdsley, H. (2007), Workplace Bullying In The Teaching Profession, Report prepared for Teacher Support Network, Nantgarw, Wales, 18th October.

McCarthy, P. Mayhew, C. Barker, M. Murphy, C. & Sheehan, M., (2003). Review of bullying in the workplace. Report prepared for the Office of the Commissioner for Public Employment (OCPE), Northern Territory. June.

McCarthy, P. Henderson, M., Sheehan, M., & Barker, M. (2003). Socially responsible management and ethical investment: employment practices. Report for the Centre for Research on Employment and Work (CREW), Griffith University, February, 2002.

A current project involves understanding behaviours and behavioural change during partnering (with the Ministry of Defence), (September 2007 – ongoing