Profile
Paddy is Professor of Business Studies and previous Head of the Department of Personnel and Employment Relations. A graduate of University College Dublin (B.Comm, 1977; MBS, 1978) and Cranfield School of Management (PhD, 1995), he has authored or co-authored 17 books and over 100 refereed journal papers and book chapters.
A former Fulbright Scholar, and current Marie Curie IRSES Scholar, Paddy is member of the editorial boards of the Human Resource Management Journal, Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources, Industrial Relations Journal and Employee Relations: The International Journal. He is also former co-editor of the Irish Journal of Management. He holds Visiting Professor Appointments at Paris II University and the University of Cadiz and has delivered distinguished lectures and invited presentations at several leading universities and business schools in Australia, Canada, China, South Africa and the US. He is currently external examiner at Dublin City University and University College Cork and has examined doctoral theses at several Irish and international universities, most recently at Macquarie University (Australia), Trinity College Dublin, Queens University Belfast and the University of Warwick (UK).
In 2009 he was bestowed with the award of inaugural Fellow of the Irish Academy of Management in acknowledgement of his distinguished contribution to academia and the study of business and management in Ireland. Paddy is also Chartered Fellow of the Institute of Personnel and Development (FCIPD).
His main research interests are in the areas of multinational corporations and human resource management (HRM), trade union membership and recognition, management strategies in industrial relations, and the role of HRM specialists. His research has attracted financial support from the European Union's Framework 7 programme, the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences and the Economic and Social Research Council (UK).
He previously worked as a senior executive in the Semi-State sector in Ireland and lectured for some years in Zambia.
Selected Publications
BOOKS
Gunnigle, P., Heraty, N. & Morley, M. (2011) Human Resource Management in Ireland, Dublin: Gill and Macmillan
Lavelle, J., McDonnell, A. & Gunnigle, P. (2009) Human Resource Practices in Multinational Companies in Ireland: A Contemporary Analysis, Dublin: The Stationery Office.
Morley, M., Gunnigle, P. & Collings, D.G. (2006) Global Industrial Relations, London & New York: Routledge.
REFEREED JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS (SELECTION)
Gunnigle, P., Lavelle, J. & Sinead Monaghan, S. (2012) " Weathering the storm? Multinational companies and human resource management through the global financial crisis" International Journal of Manpower, 33 (6).
Lavelle, J., Turner, T., Gunnigle, P. and McDonnell, A. (2012) 'The Determinants of Financial Participation Schemes within multinational companies in Ireland', International Journal of Human Resource Management, 23 (8), 1590-1610.
Lavelle, J., Gunnigle, P. & McDonnell, A. (2010) "Patterning employee voice in multinational companies", Human Relations 63 (3), 395-418.
Collings, D., McDonnell, A., Gunnigle, P. & Lavelle, J. (2010) "Swimming against the tide: Outward staffing flows from multinational subsidiaries", Human Resource Management 49 (4), 575-598.
McDonnell, A., Lamare, R., Gunnigle, P. & Lavelle, J. (2010) "Developing Tomorrow's Leaders - Evidence of Global Talent Management in Multinational Enterprises", Journal of World Business, 45 (2), 150-160.
Gunnigle, P., Lavelle, J. & McDonnell, A. (2009) "Subtle but deadly? Union avoidance through 'double breasting' among multinational companies", Advances in Industrial and Labor Relations, 16, 51-74.
Dobbins, A. & Gunnigle, P. (2009) "Can voluntary workplace partnership deliver sustainable mutual gains?" British Journal of Industrial Relations 47 (3), 546-570.
Almond, P., Edwards, T., Colling, T. Ferner, A., Gunnigle, P., Muller-Camen, M., Quintanilla, J. & Waechter, H. (2005), "Unravelling Home and Host Country Effects, An Investigation of the HR Policies of an American Multinational in Four European Countries", Industrial Relations, A Journal of Economy and Society, 44, 2, 276-307.
Gunnigle, P., Murphy, K.R., Cleveland, J.N., Heraty, N. & Morley , M. (2002) "Localization in Human Resource Management, Comparing American and European Multinational Corporations", Advances in International Comparative Management, 14, 259-284.
Gunnigle, P. (1998), "More rhetoric than reality, Enterprise level industrial relations partnerships in Ireland", Economic and Social Review, 29 (2), 179-200.
Gunnigle, P., Turner, T. & D'Art, D. (1998), "Counterpoising collectivism, Performance-related pay and industrial relations in Greenfield sites", British Journal of Industrial Relations, 36 (4), 565-579.
BOOK CHAPTERS
Collings, D.G., Lavelle, J., & Gunnigle, P. (2011) "The Role of MNEs" in A. Wilkinson & M. Barry (Eds.) Handbook on Comparative Employment Relations, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Press.
McDonnell, A. & Gunnigle, P. (2009) "Performance Management", in D. Collings & G. Wood (Eds.) Human Resource Management: A Critical Approach, Milton Park, Abingdon (UK) & Madison Avenue, New York (US): Routledge.
Gunnigle, P., Collings, D.G. & Morley, M.J. (2006) "Accommodating global capitalism? State policy and industrial relations in American MNCs in Ireland", in A. Ferner, J. Quintanilla & C. Sanchez-Runde, (eds.) Multinationals and the Construction of Transnational Practices: Convergence and Diversity in the Global Economy, Basingstoke, Hampshire & New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
Colling, T., Gunnigle, P., Quintanilla, J., & Tempel, A. (2006) "Collective Representation and Participation", in P. Almond, & A. Ferner (Eds.) American Multinationals in Europe: Managing Employment Relations Across National Borders, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
