Fiona Hurd
Biographic Data
| ID | 694476 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Fiona Hurd |
| GIVEN NAMES | Fiona |
| FAMILY NAME | Hurd |
| SIGNATURE | HURD F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Auckland University of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5161-0904 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Management Students Making Sense: Scaffolding Grand Challenges Through Threshold Concepts and Concept Maps
In this article, we demonstrate how the iterative use of concept mapping develops business students’ competencies to analyze the complexity, uncertainty, and diverse views inherent in wicked problems and grand challenges. Focusing on the interconnectedness between business, government, and social actors, coupled with the iterative use of concept maps (as both a teaching technique and assessment tool) proved to be effective and powerful techniques…
Examining Grand Challenges Through a Systems Thinking Lens: An Innovative Multi-Day Case Study Approach to Exploring Sustainability
In this article, we present an innovative 4-day intensive course which responds to the urgent need to explore issues related to the grand challenges of our time. The course was iteratively designed and developed over a 14-year period. It is designed to utilize systems thinking ideas within a management education domain to deepen student capabilities of collaboratively dealing with complex socio-ecological challenges. The aim is to encourage devel…
Navigating professional boundaries: Impacts on culturally grounded care provided by Māori home-based carers in Aotearoa New Zealand
This study investigates how organisational professional boundary drawing affects the ability of Māori home-based carers (HBCs) in Aotearoa New Zealand to provide culturally grounded care. As in many caring professions, this home-based sector relies on the fulfilment that caring is assumed to bring to workers in order to attract and retain good staff. Such meaningfulness is tied to the close relationships and rapport needed to undertake intimate c…
Social construction of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) issues and moving international business research forward
Purpose This scene-setting viewpoint aims to round up a two-part special issue focusing on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in international business (IB). If the first part of the special issue focused on DEI blind spots and the juxtaposition between the DEI business case and the DEI social justice case, the second part critically discusses the social construction of DEI issues in IB settings and the role played by context in IB-DEI researc…
The Answer Lies in Our Humanity: Research and Methodologies That Facilitate Healing and Hope
What could have become an ugly slugfest of recrimination and blame, fuelling hatred as the attacker hoped, became instead a moment when a nation came together, honoured its differences, accepted its failings and united behind a future vision of a land where bigotry and racism are not welcome. “The answer lies in our humanity,” Ardern said. “We each hold the power—in our words, in our actions, in our daily acts of kindness. Let that be the legacy …
Moving diversity, equity and inclusion research forward with(in) international business: Addressing Blind Spots Through Critical and Reflexive Management Scholarship
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide a scene-setting viewpoint that critically examines various diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) blind spots within the field of international business (IB). These include issues such as social justice, intersectionality, de-colonization, the co-creation of inclusive research practices in indigenous spaces, social dialogue and the gap between DEI rhetoric and reality. An additional aim of the viewpo…
Hiding in plain sight: Exploring the complex pathways between tactical concealment and relational wellbeing
We argue that the current environment in higher education is one of the primary drivers for the widespread adoption of concealment tactics with the aim of enhancing wellbeing. To explore the relationship between concealment and wellbeing, we draw upon Scott’s conceptualization of “hidden transcripts” and Keyes’s five dimensions of social wellbeing. Using a collaborative ethnographic approach, we examine a 2-year period of individual and collectiv…
They expect me to be caring”: The challenges of claiming an androgynous leadership approach
Purpose This study aims to explore the experience of performing androgynous leadership approaches by New Zealand women leaders within the context of everyday conflict situations. Design/methodology/approach The research question “How do women leaders experience gender in conflict situations?” was explored through the facilitation of 4 focus groups with 19 senior female leaders in New Zealand. Poststructural discourse analysis was used to explore …
‘Training the next generation HR practitioners’: Reflecting on HRM student experiences of sexual harassment training
Despite prohibitive legislation and organizational policies and training, high rates of sexual harassment persist in the hospitality industry, a situation that is concerning to organizations and researchers alike. As management educators, we embedded a sexual harassment lecture within the context of a human resource management degree, with the aim of developing the capacity of the future human resource practitioner workforce to address sexual har…
Privileged yet vulnerable: Shared memories of a deeply gendered lockdown
The centrality of personal experience plays a pivotal role in feminist scholarship. We draw on the feminist inspired collaborative inquiry research method, memory‐work, to bring to the fore our experiences of living and working in lockdown, a Government enforced policy response to the global Covid‐19 pandemic in Aotearoa New Zealand. Memory‐work provided the conduit for us to work collaboratively with our experiences and make sense of the whirlwi…
The Palimpsest of Welfarism: Enduring Layers of Paternalism in a New Zealand Industry Town
This paper explores the enduring impression made by industry and its representatives on the workforces, communities and locations in which it resides. This oral history study is based on a New Zealand single industry town developed in the post-World War II era and founded on the principles of industrial welfarism and paternalism. The study reveals that the employment relation practices of the town's symbolic "founding father" have had an enduring…
Good” things take time: A living story of research as “life”
Purpose Although the process of fieldwork is often characterised by disorder, the requirement to adhere to a tightly defined methodology and produce timely research outputs often leads the authors to present the findings as though the research has been the product of a linear process. The purpose of this paper is to unmask this paradox, by documenting the disorder and development of a research project 15 years (so far) in duration. Design/methodo…
Equality as a threshold conception: Challenging Future Manager’s Perceptions
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the potential to develop a shared understanding of systemic discrimination and the complexity of equality and an appreciation for the range of interventions designed to redress inequality within the context of business school curricula. Design/methodology/approach Qualitative material was gathered over a four-year period through written reflections of student interpretations of equality. Participant…
We’re all in this together”? The search for collective belonging in a globalised single industry town
Purpose Communities of work are a phenomenon closely associated with government social and industrial policy, and can be tracked in contemporary examples globally alongside industrial development. The purpose of this paper is to explore community identity within a town which was previously single industry, but has since experienced workforce reduction and to a large degree, industry withdrawal. Design/methodology/approach Using an inductive appro…
"Mutualism beyond the "Mutual: The Collective Development of a New Zealand Single Industry Town Hospital
This paper discusses mutualism and its links to labourism. It is argued that rather than being contradictory, mutualism is incorporated into union activities in a range of ways beyond formal mutual and cooperative institutions, dependent on contextual differences in the labour movement. Using the case of mutual union and company involvement in the development of a public hospital in a single industry town in New Zealand during the 1960s and 1970s…
Changing perceptions about feminists and (still not) claiming a feminist identity
We examine student perceptions about feminists and feminism, and the willingness to claim a feminist identity and engage in collective activism, as stated at the beginning and end of a Women’s Studies course. Course participation simultaneously fostered more positive views towards feminists and feminism and entrenched the unwillingness to claim a feminist identity and engage in activism. These contradictory outcomes stemmed from the critical capa…
Privileged yet vulnerable: Shared memories of a deeply gendered lockdown
The centrality of personal experience plays a pivotal role in feminist scholarship. We draw on the feminist inspired collaborative inquiry research method, memory‐work, to bring to the fore our experiences of living and working in lockdown, a Government enforced policy response to the global Covid‐19 pandemic in Aotearoa New Zealand. Memory‐work provided the conduit for us to work collaboratively with our experiences and make sense of the whirlwi…
Changing perceptions about feminists and (still not) claiming a feminist identity
We examine student perceptions about feminists and feminism, and the willingness to claim a feminist identity and engage in collective activism, as stated at the beginning and end of a Women’s Studies course. Course participation simultaneously fostered more positive views towards feminists and feminism and entrenched the unwillingness to claim a feminist identity and engage in activism. These contradictory outcomes stemmed from the critical capa…
Equality as a threshold conception: Challenging Future Manager’s Perceptions
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the potential to develop a shared understanding of systemic discrimination and the complexity of equality and an appreciation for the range of interventions designed to redress inequality within the context of business school curricula. Design/methodology/approach Qualitative material was gathered over a four-year period through written reflections of student interpretations of equality. Participant…
Changing perceptions about feminists and (still not) claiming a feminist identity
We examine student perceptions about feminists and feminism, and the willingness to claim a feminist identity and engage in collective activism, as stated at the beginning and end of a Women’s Studies course. Course participation simultaneously fostered more positive views towards feminists and feminism and entrenched the unwillingness to claim a feminist identity and engage in activism. These contradictory outcomes stemmed from the critical capa…
We’re all in this together”? The search for collective belonging in a globalised single industry town
Purpose Communities of work are a phenomenon closely associated with government social and industrial policy, and can be tracked in contemporary examples globally alongside industrial development. The purpose of this paper is to explore community identity within a town which was previously single industry, but has since experienced workforce reduction and to a large degree, industry withdrawal. Design/methodology/approach Using an inductive appro…
"Mutualism beyond the "Mutual: The Collective Development of a New Zealand Single Industry Town Hospital
This paper discusses mutualism and its links to labourism. It is argued that rather than being contradictory, mutualism is incorporated into union activities in a range of ways beyond formal mutual and cooperative institutions, dependent on contextual differences in the labour movement. Using the case of mutual union and company involvement in the development of a public hospital in a single industry town in New Zealand during the 1960s and 1970s…
Good” things take time: A living story of research as “life”
Purpose Although the process of fieldwork is often characterised by disorder, the requirement to adhere to a tightly defined methodology and produce timely research outputs often leads the authors to present the findings as though the research has been the product of a linear process. The purpose of this paper is to unmask this paradox, by documenting the disorder and development of a research project 15 years (so far) in duration. Design/methodo…
Equality as a threshold conception: Challenging Future Manager’s Perceptions
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the potential to develop a shared understanding of systemic discrimination and the complexity of equality and an appreciation for the range of interventions designed to redress inequality within the context of business school curricula. Design/methodology/approach Qualitative material was gathered over a four-year period through written reflections of student interpretations of equality. Participant…
‘Training the next generation HR practitioners’: Reflecting on HRM student experiences of sexual harassment training
Despite prohibitive legislation and organizational policies and training, high rates of sexual harassment persist in the hospitality industry, a situation that is concerning to organizations and researchers alike. As management educators, we embedded a sexual harassment lecture within the context of a human resource management degree, with the aim of developing the capacity of the future human resource practitioner workforce to address sexual har…
Privileged yet vulnerable: Shared memories of a deeply gendered lockdown
The centrality of personal experience plays a pivotal role in feminist scholarship. We draw on the feminist inspired collaborative inquiry research method, memory‐work, to bring to the fore our experiences of living and working in lockdown, a Government enforced policy response to the global Covid‐19 pandemic in Aotearoa New Zealand. Memory‐work provided the conduit for us to work collaboratively with our experiences and make sense of the whirlwi…
The Palimpsest of Welfarism: Enduring Layers of Paternalism in a New Zealand Industry Town
This paper explores the enduring impression made by industry and its representatives on the workforces, communities and locations in which it resides. This oral history study is based on a New Zealand single industry town developed in the post-World War II era and founded on the principles of industrial welfarism and paternalism. The study reveals that the employment relation practices of the town's symbolic "founding father" have had an enduring…
Hiding in plain sight: Exploring the complex pathways between tactical concealment and relational wellbeing
We argue that the current environment in higher education is one of the primary drivers for the widespread adoption of concealment tactics with the aim of enhancing wellbeing. To explore the relationship between concealment and wellbeing, we draw upon Scott’s conceptualization of “hidden transcripts” and Keyes’s five dimensions of social wellbeing. Using a collaborative ethnographic approach, we examine a 2-year period of individual and collectiv…
They expect me to be caring”: The challenges of claiming an androgynous leadership approach
Purpose This study aims to explore the experience of performing androgynous leadership approaches by New Zealand women leaders within the context of everyday conflict situations. Design/methodology/approach The research question “How do women leaders experience gender in conflict situations?” was explored through the facilitation of 4 focus groups with 19 senior female leaders in New Zealand. Poststructural discourse analysis was used to explore …
Moving diversity, equity and inclusion research forward with(in) international business: Addressing Blind Spots Through Critical and Reflexive Management Scholarship
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide a scene-setting viewpoint that critically examines various diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) blind spots within the field of international business (IB). These include issues such as social justice, intersectionality, de-colonization, the co-creation of inclusive research practices in indigenous spaces, social dialogue and the gap between DEI rhetoric and reality. An additional aim of the viewpo…
The Answer Lies in Our Humanity: Research and Methodologies That Facilitate Healing and Hope
What could have become an ugly slugfest of recrimination and blame, fuelling hatred as the attacker hoped, became instead a moment when a nation came together, honoured its differences, accepted its failings and united behind a future vision of a land where bigotry and racism are not welcome. “The answer lies in our humanity,” Ardern said. “We each hold the power—in our words, in our actions, in our daily acts of kindness. Let that be the legacy …
Management Students Making Sense: Scaffolding Grand Challenges Through Threshold Concepts and Concept Maps
In this article, we demonstrate how the iterative use of concept mapping develops business students’ competencies to analyze the complexity, uncertainty, and diverse views inherent in wicked problems and grand challenges. Focusing on the interconnectedness between business, government, and social actors, coupled with the iterative use of concept maps (as both a teaching technique and assessment tool) proved to be effective and powerful techniques…
Examining Grand Challenges Through a Systems Thinking Lens: An Innovative Multi-Day Case Study Approach to Exploring Sustainability
In this article, we present an innovative 4-day intensive course which responds to the urgent need to explore issues related to the grand challenges of our time. The course was iteratively designed and developed over a 14-year period. It is designed to utilize systems thinking ideas within a management education domain to deepen student capabilities of collaboratively dealing with complex socio-ecological challenges. The aim is to encourage devel…
Navigating professional boundaries: Impacts on culturally grounded care provided by Māori home-based carers in Aotearoa New Zealand
This study investigates how organisational professional boundary drawing affects the ability of Māori home-based carers (HBCs) in Aotearoa New Zealand to provide culturally grounded care. As in many caring professions, this home-based sector relies on the fulfilment that caring is assumed to bring to workers in order to attract and retain good staff. Such meaningfulness is tied to the close relationships and rapport needed to undertake intimate c…
Social construction of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) issues and moving international business research forward
Purpose This scene-setting viewpoint aims to round up a two-part special issue focusing on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in international business (IB). If the first part of the special issue focused on DEI blind spots and the juxtaposition between the DEI business case and the DEI social justice case, the second part critically discusses the social construction of DEI issues in IB settings and the role played by context in IB-DEI researc…
Sociology (11 works) · Political science (10 works) · Law (7 works) · Management and Organizational Studies (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Gender Diversity and Inequality (6 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Public relations (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Social science (5 works)