Thomas N Garavan
Biographic Data
| ID | 1656101 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas N Garavan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas N |
| FAMILY NAME | Garavan |
| SIGNATURE | GARAVAN T N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College Cork |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2696-7853 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Company‐Sponsored Fertility Benefits: A Gift‐Exchange and Contextual Intersectionality Informed “FA i RE” Framework Guiding Design and Implementation
Managing the work‐fertility interface is a major challenge for organizations when implementing fertility policies. These policies cover a broad spectrum of areas including clinical treatments, preservation and storage of eggs and sperm, preimplantation and diagnostics, and non‐clinical family‐building assistance. They also differ from standard work–life policies because of the need for intensive medical integration, strict legal‐privacy issues an…
Past Good Deeds Can Make You Bad: Moral Credential Effect of Organisational Identification on Careerism
Drawing on moral licencing theory, this study explores how organisational identification may paradoxically lead to unethical outcomes in the workplace. We hypothesised that organisational identification is linked to negative workplace gossip, which in turn fosters careerism. Additionally, we proposed that workplace toxicity moderates both the direct relationship between organisational identification and negative workplace gossip and the indirect …
‘An altruistic act to give back’—the social work practice educator role in Ireland: Motivation, satisfaction, challenges, and supports
Social work education is undergoing significant expansion, and internationally, securing requisite numbers of student placements to meet expanding numbers is challenging. This is similarly the case in Ireland, where the system is reliant on social workers assuming a practice educator role in addition to performing existing social work duties. Despite the pivotal role of practice educators, their perspectives are under-researched. In this article,…
Legitimating Organizational Secrecy
This paper brings into focus the concept of organizational secrecy by senior managers in the context of a major strategic change program. Underpinned by legitimation theory and utilizing a narrative methodology and a longitudinal investigation, we draw upon data from 52 interviews with 13 senior managers conducted at 3 months intervals over the course of 12 months. Our findings reveal that senior managers utilized seven discursive legitimation st…
Commercial Airline Pilots’ Stress Across the Travel Cycle: Multi-Level Stressors, Spillover Effects, and the Role of Resources
Commercial airline pilots (CAPs) are a key employee group within the travel industry who are exposed to multi-level institutional and organizational demands that impact their lived experience of stress potentially leading to accidents and incidents. This study explores CAPs’ lived experience of stress and draws on conservation of resources theory and context and travel stage frameworks to investigate unique stressors that CAPs face at different t…
Talent management in public science funding organizations: Institutional logics, paradoxical tensions and HR actor responses
Drawing on a study of three public science funding organizations in Ireland, Finland and New Zealand, we investigate the implementation of talent management (TM) through the lens of institutional complexity and paradox theory. Multiple institutional logics and institutional complexity create tensions, which TM actors must respond to and manage. We identify an important interplay of four institutional logics with the dominance of the professional …
Leadership development in the Hong Kong Civil Service: Accessing social resources through guanxi networks
Drawing on guanxi and conservation of resources theory we explore how close personal ties between middle managers who participated in leadership development, constitutes an important social resource in an East Asian public sector context. We contribute to studies exploring the importance of informal leadership development opportunities and techniques, specifically utilised to overcome public sector structural barriers. We gathered qualitative dat…
Work re‐entry following maternity leave for first‐time mothers: An events, social identity and intersectional theories informed identity work framework
Many first‐time mothers experience significant identity issues on work re‐entry following maternity leave, an important individual and life‐related event. Work re‐entry prompts significant identity tensions leading to identity work challenges and potential career changes. We address this significant life event and develop a subjective identity informed conceptual framework explaining its key components and outcomes. We propose that for first‐time…
Bodily Autonomy, Reproductive Rights and Company‐Sponsored Fertility Benefits: A Call to Action
This commentary considers c ompany‐sponsored fertility benefits (CSFBs) and their use by organizations. We highlight the lack of attention to these benefits in the gender and management literature. Indeed, despite the importance of the topic very few gender researchers, and even fewer management scholars have deemed the erosion of female reproductive rights and commodification of fertility in the workplace worthy of debate. We, therefore, call on…
Creating facades of conformity in the face of abusive supervision and emotional exhaustion: The boundary role of self-enhancement motives
Investigating the impact of sensitivity to terrorism on employee psychological well-being: The mediating role of psychological resilience
Purpose The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between employee sensitivity to terrorism (STT), employee psychological well-being (EPW) and the mediating role of employee psychological resilience (EPR) for both male and female employees in an environment characterized by discontinuous terrorist incidents. Design/methodology/approach The study uses data collected from a sample of 432 university employees working in geographic…
Signalling the corporate brand promise to front-line employees: The role of learning and development in internal branding
An exploration of the professional and leader identity of IT professionals transitioning to a permanent hybrid role: A longitudinal investigation
Purpose The purpose of this study is to explore the role of professional and leader identity and the maintenance of identity, through identity work as IT professionals transitioned to a permanent hybrid role. This study therefore contributes to the under-researched area of permanent transition to a hybrid role in the context of IT, where there is a requirement to enact both the professional and leader roles together. Design/methodology/approach T…
Multidimensionality of HRD in small tourism firms: A case study of the Republic of Ireland
Human resource development in Mauritius: Context, challenges and opportunities
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore human resource development (HRD) in Mauritius and the challenges and opportunities faced by organisations in different sectors in adopting HRD practices. Findings This special issue presents four papers that explore dimensions of HRD in public sector, small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and tourism organisations. It also reports on human capital development in the Mauritian economy generally.…
European Social Fund in Portugal: A complex question for human resource development
Purpose This article aims to review the application of the funds awarded by the European Social Fund (ESF) to Portugal, since 1986, from a human resource development (HRD) perspective. Design/methodology/approach Several variables are analyzed: investment, absorption, people, impact of investment, evolution of skills, main programs, supply and demand for training and the role of the state. Findings The main conclusion of the paper is that, even i…
The cultural boundedness of theory and practice in HRD
Argues that cultural influences may not only affect a professional’s implicit concept of what constitutes effective practice, but may also affect researchers’ explicit theories. Suggests that this means that many HRD practices, processes, procedures and language are specific to cultures. Explores some of the reasons underlying the increasing importance placed on cultural issues by multinational companies, touching on a number of theoretical and e…
Bodily Autonomy, Reproductive Rights and Company‐Sponsored Fertility Benefits: A Call to Action
This commentary considers c ompany‐sponsored fertility benefits (CSFBs) and their use by organizations. We highlight the lack of attention to these benefits in the gender and management literature. Indeed, despite the importance of the topic very few gender researchers, and even fewer management scholars have deemed the erosion of female reproductive rights and commodification of fertility in the workplace worthy of debate. We, therefore, call on…
Multidimensionality of HRD in small tourism firms: A case study of the Republic of Ireland
The cultural boundedness of theory and practice in HRD
Argues that cultural influences may not only affect a professional’s implicit concept of what constitutes effective practice, but may also affect researchers’ explicit theories. Suggests that this means that many HRD practices, processes, procedures and language are specific to cultures. Explores some of the reasons underlying the increasing importance placed on cultural issues by multinational companies, touching on a number of theoretical and e…
European Social Fund in Portugal: A complex question for human resource development
Purpose This article aims to review the application of the funds awarded by the European Social Fund (ESF) to Portugal, since 1986, from a human resource development (HRD) perspective. Design/methodology/approach Several variables are analyzed: investment, absorption, people, impact of investment, evolution of skills, main programs, supply and demand for training and the role of the state. Findings The main conclusion of the paper is that, even i…
Human resource development in Mauritius: Context, challenges and opportunities
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore human resource development (HRD) in Mauritius and the challenges and opportunities faced by organisations in different sectors in adopting HRD practices. Findings This special issue presents four papers that explore dimensions of HRD in public sector, small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and tourism organisations. It also reports on human capital development in the Mauritian economy generally.…
An exploration of the professional and leader identity of IT professionals transitioning to a permanent hybrid role: A longitudinal investigation
Purpose The purpose of this study is to explore the role of professional and leader identity and the maintenance of identity, through identity work as IT professionals transitioned to a permanent hybrid role. This study therefore contributes to the under-researched area of permanent transition to a hybrid role in the context of IT, where there is a requirement to enact both the professional and leader roles together. Design/methodology/approach T…
Multidimensionality of HRD in small tourism firms: A case study of the Republic of Ireland
Signalling the corporate brand promise to front-line employees: The role of learning and development in internal branding
Creating facades of conformity in the face of abusive supervision and emotional exhaustion: The boundary role of self-enhancement motives
Investigating the impact of sensitivity to terrorism on employee psychological well-being: The mediating role of psychological resilience
Purpose The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between employee sensitivity to terrorism (STT), employee psychological well-being (EPW) and the mediating role of employee psychological resilience (EPR) for both male and female employees in an environment characterized by discontinuous terrorist incidents. Design/methodology/approach The study uses data collected from a sample of 432 university employees working in geographic…
Talent management in public science funding organizations: Institutional logics, paradoxical tensions and HR actor responses
Drawing on a study of three public science funding organizations in Ireland, Finland and New Zealand, we investigate the implementation of talent management (TM) through the lens of institutional complexity and paradox theory. Multiple institutional logics and institutional complexity create tensions, which TM actors must respond to and manage. We identify an important interplay of four institutional logics with the dominance of the professional …
Leadership development in the Hong Kong Civil Service: Accessing social resources through guanxi networks
Drawing on guanxi and conservation of resources theory we explore how close personal ties between middle managers who participated in leadership development, constitutes an important social resource in an East Asian public sector context. We contribute to studies exploring the importance of informal leadership development opportunities and techniques, specifically utilised to overcome public sector structural barriers. We gathered qualitative dat…
Work re‐entry following maternity leave for first‐time mothers: An events, social identity and intersectional theories informed identity work framework
Many first‐time mothers experience significant identity issues on work re‐entry following maternity leave, an important individual and life‐related event. Work re‐entry prompts significant identity tensions leading to identity work challenges and potential career changes. We address this significant life event and develop a subjective identity informed conceptual framework explaining its key components and outcomes. We propose that for first‐time…
Bodily Autonomy, Reproductive Rights and Company‐Sponsored Fertility Benefits: A Call to Action
This commentary considers c ompany‐sponsored fertility benefits (CSFBs) and their use by organizations. We highlight the lack of attention to these benefits in the gender and management literature. Indeed, despite the importance of the topic very few gender researchers, and even fewer management scholars have deemed the erosion of female reproductive rights and commodification of fertility in the workplace worthy of debate. We, therefore, call on…
Legitimating Organizational Secrecy
This paper brings into focus the concept of organizational secrecy by senior managers in the context of a major strategic change program. Underpinned by legitimation theory and utilizing a narrative methodology and a longitudinal investigation, we draw upon data from 52 interviews with 13 senior managers conducted at 3 months intervals over the course of 12 months. Our findings reveal that senior managers utilized seven discursive legitimation st…
Commercial Airline Pilots’ Stress Across the Travel Cycle: Multi-Level Stressors, Spillover Effects, and the Role of Resources
Commercial airline pilots (CAPs) are a key employee group within the travel industry who are exposed to multi-level institutional and organizational demands that impact their lived experience of stress potentially leading to accidents and incidents. This study explores CAPs’ lived experience of stress and draws on conservation of resources theory and context and travel stage frameworks to investigate unique stressors that CAPs face at different t…
Company‐Sponsored Fertility Benefits: A Gift‐Exchange and Contextual Intersectionality Informed “FA i RE” Framework Guiding Design and Implementation
Managing the work‐fertility interface is a major challenge for organizations when implementing fertility policies. These policies cover a broad spectrum of areas including clinical treatments, preservation and storage of eggs and sperm, preimplantation and diagnostics, and non‐clinical family‐building assistance. They also differ from standard work–life policies because of the need for intensive medical integration, strict legal‐privacy issues an…
Past Good Deeds Can Make You Bad: Moral Credential Effect of Organisational Identification on Careerism
Drawing on moral licencing theory, this study explores how organisational identification may paradoxically lead to unethical outcomes in the workplace. We hypothesised that organisational identification is linked to negative workplace gossip, which in turn fosters careerism. Additionally, we proposed that workplace toxicity moderates both the direct relationship between organisational identification and negative workplace gossip and the indirect …
‘An altruistic act to give back’—the social work practice educator role in Ireland: Motivation, satisfaction, challenges, and supports
Social work education is undergoing significant expansion, and internationally, securing requisite numbers of student placements to meet expanding numbers is challenging. This is similarly the case in Ireland, where the system is reliant on social workers assuming a practice educator role in addition to performing existing social work duties. Despite the pivotal role of practice educators, their perspectives are under-researched. In this article,…
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