Charmine E. J. Härtel, Ph.D.
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Charmine E. J. Härtel is Management Cluster Leader and Professor of Management in the UQ Business School at The University of Queensland, Australia. She is passionate about advancing scholarship that raises awareness and understanding of the key challenges in fostering economic, social, environmental, organizational and individual wellbeing. Her pioneering work on the characteristics of positive work environments has identified a number of the drivers of unhealthy and toxic work environments along with the leadership and human resource management practices, organizational policies and strategies to turn such situations around. She has won numerous awards internationally for her research, including five awards for innovation in organizational practice.
Charmine is passionate about enhancing the relevance and contributions of management education to human sustainability. Her roles as Associate Editor of Academy of Management Learning and Education and author of a new HR textbook grounded in a human sustainability paradigm are some of the activities through which she is contributing to the need to advance environmentally, socially and economically responsible management practices. Her teaching areas include research methods, statistics, qualitative research, organizational behavior, human resource management, organizational development and organizational theory.
Charmine received her Bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of Colorado and her Masters and Doctoral degrees in Industrial and Organizational Psychology from Colorado State University. She is a registered organizational psychologist (Australia) and a Fellow of the Australia and New Zealand Academy of Management. She has 27 years of experience in the public and private sector including consultancies in Australia, Europe, Asia and the U.S. and is recognized internationally as a leading expert in the areas of organizational and employee development, diversity management and social inclusion, leadership development and employee wellbeing. In addition to research awards, she is the recipient of two university supervision awards, several awards including for supervision, the Jacob E. Hautaluoma Distinguished Alumni Award for “improving organizations at the team, group, company and international levels, and a dedication towards helping individuals and organizations become more effective and well adjusted”, and the Janet Chusmir Award from the GDO division of the Academy of Management for service as a mentor and role model for others in the field.
Charmine has been awarded has been awarded nearly $3million in Australian Research Council funding and authored or co-authored over 70 refereed journal articles, which have appeared in journals such as the Academy of Management Review, Journal of Applied Psychology, Leadership Quarterly, Journal of Management, and Human Resource Management Review. Along with colleagues Neal Ashkanasy and Wilf Zerbe, Charmine co-founded the International Conference on Emotions and Organizational Life conference, which the three continue to co-organize. The trio are also the Series Co-Editors of Research on Emotion in Organizations.
