Marilyn Clarke

Adelaide Business School

Faculty of Arts, Business, Law and Economics

Marilyn Clarke joined the Business School at the beginning of 2009 as a Senior Lecturer in the Management discipline.

During her 20 year teaching career she has taught in the management discipline across all three universities in South Australia; University of SA, Flinders University and University of Adelaide. She has extensive teaching experience at undergraduate and postgraduate level, both locally and offshore in Singapore and Hong Kong.

Prior to her academic career she worked for Telstra in a range of functional areas including internal audit, business planning, marketing and HR. She has also worked in HR at the University of SA and as a business consultant.

Marilyn's research interests include careers, career identity, employability and the impact of generational differences on career decisions and work patterns. In recent years she has worked with several aged care organisations exploring careers within the community aged care workforce.

Career
Publications
Supervision
Contact

Appointments

Date	Position	Institution name
2009 - ongoing	Senior Lecturer	University of Adelaide
2000 - 2008	Lecturer	University of South Australia
1998 - 1998	HR Project Manager	UniSA
1997 - 1999	Business Consultant	Kingston Clarke Consulting
1988 - 1999	Casual Lecturer	UniSA and Flinders Universities
1986 - 1987	Business Planning	Telstra
1985 - 1986	Internal Auditor	Telstra
1984 - 1985	Staff Training and Development	Telstra

Education

Institution name	Country	Title
University of South Australia	Australia	PhD
South Australian Institute of Technology	Australia	Grad Dip Business Administration
University of Adelaide	Australia	BA (Hons)

Research Interests

Human Resources Management

Journals

Year	Citation
2022	Scurry, T., & Clarke, M. (2022). Navigating dual-careers: the challenge for professional couples. Personnel Review, 51(7), 1823-1840. DOI Scopus4 WoS1
2019	Clarke, M., & Ravenswood, K. (2019). Constructing a career identity in the aged care sector: overcoming the “taint” of dirty work. Personnel Review, 48(1), 76-97. DOI Scopus27 WoS19
2018	Clarke, M. (2018). Rethinking graduate employability: the role of capital, individual attributes and context. Studies in Higher Education, 43(11), 1923-1937. DOI Scopus496 WoS275
2017	Clarke, M. (2017). Building employability through graduate development programmes: A case study in an Australian public sector organisation. Personnel Review, 46(4), 792-808. DOI Scopus24 WoS16
2017	Alshathry, S., Clarke, M., & Goodman, S. (2017). The role of employer brand equity in employee attraction and retention: a unified framework. International Journal of Organizational Analysis, 25(3), 413-431. DOI Scopus42 WoS28
2017	Clarke, M., & Scurry, T. (2017). The role of the psychological contract in shaping graduate experiences: a study of public sector talent management programmes in the UK and Australia. International Journal of Human Resource Management, 31(8), 1-27. DOI Scopus30 WoS15
2015	Clarke, M. (2015). Dual careers: the new norm for Gen Y professionals?. Career Development International, 20(6), 562-582. DOI Scopus18 WoS11
2015	Clarke, M. (2015). To what extent a “bad” job? Employee perceptions of job quality in community aged care. Employee Relations, 37(2), 192-208. DOI Scopus31 WoS26
2013	Clarke, M. (2013). The organizational career: not dead but in need of redefinition. International Journal of Human Resource Management, 24(4), 684-703. DOI Scopus131 WoS111
2012	Joham, C., & Clarke, M. (2012). Teaching critical management skills: the role of problem-based learning. Teaching in Higher Education, 17(1), 75-88. DOI Scopus24 WoS19
2012	Clarke, M., & Rao Hill, S. (2012). Promoting employee wellbeing and quality service outcomes: The role of HRM practices. Journal of Management & Organization, 18(5), 702-713. DOI Scopus32 WoS25
2011	Clarke, M. (2011). Advancing women's careers through leadership development programs. Employee Relations: The International Journal, 33(5), 498-515. DOI Scopus70 WoS51
2010	Crossman, J., & Clarke, M. (2010). International experience and graduate employability: stakeholder perceptions on the connection. Higher Education, 59(5), 595-613. DOI Scopus286 WoS221
2010	Clarke, M. (2010). Plodders, pragmatists, visionaries and opportunists: Career patterns and employability. Development and Learning in Organizations: An International Journal, 24(4), 66-71. DOI
2009	Clarke, M. (2009). Plodders, pragmatists, visionaries and opportunists: Career patterns and employability. Career Development International, 14(1), 8-28. DOI Scopus71 WoS57
2009	Clarke, M. (2009). Boundaries and Barriers: A Study of Managers in Career Transition. International Journal of Employment Studies, 2, 1-30.
2008	Clarke, M. (2008). Understanding and managing employability in changing career contexts. Journal of European Industrial Training, 32(4), 258-284. DOI Scopus152
2008	Clarke, M. (2008). Managing employability for the future: perspectives and implications. International Employment Relations Review, 14(1), 51-62.
2008	Clarke, M., & Patrickson, M. (2008). The new covenant of employability. Employee Relations: The International Journal, 30(2), 121-141. DOI Scopus124
2007	Clarke, M. (2007). Where to from here? Evaluating employability during career transition. Journal of Management & Organization, 13(3), 196-211. DOI Scopus13 WoS7
2007	Clarke, M. (2007). Choices and constraints: individual perceptions of the voluntary redundancy experience. Human Resource Management Journal, 17(1), 76-93. DOI Scopus5
2005	Clarke, M. (2005). The voluntary redundancy option: carrot or stick?. British Journal of Management, 16(3), 245-251. DOI Scopus10

Book Chapters

Year	Citation
2014	Clarke, M., & Patrickson, M. (2014). Human resource management in Australia. In A. Varma, & P. Budhwar (Eds.), Managing human resources in Asia-Pacific (2 ed., pp. 223-241). United States: Routledge. DOI
2011	Clarke, M. (2011). Sustainable HRM: A New Approach to People Management. In M. Clarke (Ed.), Readings in HRM and Sustainability (1 ed., pp. 1-7). Australia: Tilde University Press.
2011	Clarke, M. (2011). Downsizing practices for sustainable HRM. In M. Clarke (Ed.), Readings in HRM and Sustainability (1 ed., pp. 100-116). Australia: Tilde University Press.
2011	Dawson, P., & Zanko, M. (2011). Social innovation at work: Sustainable OHS in HRM. In M. Clarke (Ed.), Readings in HRM and Sustainability (pp. 82-99). Prahan Victoria: Tilde University Press.

Conference Papers

Year	Citation
2017	Clarke, M., Scurry, T., & Smith, M. (2017). Placing the ideal worker in a ‘life context’ – interdependent negotiated careers. In Proceedings of the VII International Conference of Work and Family: The (new) ideal worker (pp. 1-21). Barcelona, Spain.
2016	Clarke, M. A. (2016). Defining self: Career identity and the community aged care worker. In Thriving in Turbulent Times, British Academy of Management Conference 2016. Newcastle, UK.
2016	Clarke, M. A., Scurry, T., & Smith, M. (2016). Reconfiguring careers for the twenty-first century and beyond: challenges, constraints and opportunities. In Thriving in Turbulent Times, British Academy of Management Conference 2016. Newcastle, UK.
2016	Alshathry, S., Clarke, M., & Goodman, S. (2016). Antecedents and Consequences of Employer Brand Equity: Towards a Conceptual Framework. In 16th Biennial World Marketing Congress on Looking Forward, Looking Back - Drawing on the Past to Shape the Future of Marketing (pp. 865). The Academy of Marketing Science: SPRINGER INT PUBLISHING AG. DOI
2010	Rao Hill, S., & Clarke, M. (2010). Linking employee wellbeing and stakeholder quality of life: The case of aged care. In Proceedings of 24th Annual ANZAM Conference 2010 (pp. 1-14). CD: ANZAM.
2010	Clarke, M. (2010). An 'old' career for a new age: redefining and rehabilitating the organizational career. In Proceedings of EURAM'10 (pp. 1-28). www: ERAM.
2009	Clarke, M. (2009). Just a job or a satisfying career? Careers in the aged care industry. In Proceedings of the 23rd ANZAM Conference 2009 (pp. 1-16). Australia: Monash University.
2008	Clarke, M. (2008). Just who is managing careers and employability?. In 21st ANZAM 2007 Conference : managing our intellectual and social capital (pp. 1-14). Canning Bridge, WA: Promaco Conventions Pty Ltd.
2008	Clarke, M., & Joham, C. (2008). Developing real skills in virtual space: Management education through online PBL. In 22nd ANZAM 2008 Conference: managing in the Pacific century: program and abstracts (pp. 1-14). Canning Bridge, WA: Promaco Conventions Pty Ltd.
2008	Clarke, M. (2008). Barriers to the boundaryless career: A study of managers in career transition. In 22nd ANZAM 2008 Conference: Managing in the Pacific century: Program and abstracts (pp. 1-13). Canning Bridge WA: Promaco Conventions Pty Ltd.
2007	Clarke, M., & Burdett, J. (2007). Graduate qualities in course design, teaching and assessment - academic and student perceptions. In Enhancing Higher Education, Theory and Scholarship: Proceedings of the 30th HERDSA Annual Conference, 8-11 July 2007, Adelaide, Australia (pp. 11 pages). Milperra, NSW: Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia.
2007	Joham, C., & Clarke, M. (2007). Exploring PBL as a strategy for improving student learning outcomes. In ATN Evaluation and Assessment Conference 2007: assessment and evaluation for real world learning, 29-30 November 2007 (pp. 59-66). Brisbane: Department of Teaching and Learning Support Services, Queensland University of Technology.
2004	Clarke, M. (2004). Till death do us part? Maintaining employability under the 'new' psychological contract. In 18th Annual Conference of the Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management ANZAM 2004, 8-11 December 2004, Dunedin, New Zealand. (pp. 14 pages). Dunedin, New Zealand: University of Otago.
2004	Clarke, M. (2004). Easing the pain of separation: voluntary redundancy and perceptions of job loss. In 18th Annual Conference of the Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management: ANZAM 2004, 8-11 December 2004, Dunedin, New Zealand (pp. www1-www14). Dunedin, New Zealand: University of Otago.

Past Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)

Date	Role	Research Topic	Program	Degree Type	Student Load	Student Name
2012 - 2015	Principal Supervisor	Exploring the Role of Employer Brand Equity in the Labour Market: Differences between Existing Employee and Job Seeker Perceptions	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Mr Sultan Alshathry
2010 - 2014	Co-Supervisor	Knowledge in Collectives of Experts: Exposing the Role of Social Processes in Developing and Sustaining Expert Knowledge	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Miss Sasikala Rathnappulige

Email: marilyn.clarke@adelaide.edu.au