New Models of High Performance Work Systems - Equality Authority

Authors’ Acknowledgements >The authors wish to acknowledge thefinancial support of the National Centre forPartnership and Performance (NCPP) andthe Equality Authority. We would also liketo thank Lucy Fallon Byrne and Dr. LarryO’Connell at the NCPP together withNiall Crowley and Laurence Bond at theEquality Authority.About the AuthorsPatrick C. Flood, Ph.D. received his doctoratefrom the London School of Economics. Heis currently Professor of OrganisationalBehaviour at Dublin City University. Previousappointments include Professor at theUniversity of Limerick (where he directed theStrategic Leadership Research Programmeand the High Performance ResearchGroup), the Australian Graduate Schoolof Management, London Business School,Irish Management Institute, the R.H. SmithSchool of Business, University of Marylandat College Park and the London Schoolof Economics. He was recently appointedHonorary Professor at NortheasternUniversity China. He is a former FulbrightScholar, and has published and taughtextensively on the topics on human resourcestrategy, top management teams and organisationaleffectiveness.James P. Guthrie, Ph.D. is the William andJudy Docking Professor with the School ofBusiness at the University of Kansas. Hereceived his B.A. and M.B.A. from the StateUniversity of New York at Buffalo and hisPhD from the University of Maryland. Hewas Visiting Professor with the KemmyBusiness School, University of Limerick. Hehas previously held visiting faculty appointmentswith the University of Waikato inNew Zealand and with the Consortiumof Universities for International BusinessStudies in Italy. He has published widely onthe impact of HR policies and practices onfirm performance.