Marilyn Clarke

Research Interests

Human Resources Management

Dr Marilyn Clarke

School of Management

College of Business and Law

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.

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

Date 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)

Year Citation
2022 Scurry, T., & Clarke, M. (2022). Navigating dual-careers: the challenge for professional couples. Personnel Review, 51(7), 1823-1840.
DOI Scopus10 WoS8
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 Scopus38 WoS31
2018 Clarke, M. (2018). Rethinking graduate employability: the role of capital, individual attributes and context. Studies in Higher Education, 43(11), 1923-1937.
DOI Scopus610 WoS445
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 Scopus26 WoS23
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 Scopus50 WoS40
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 Scopus38 WoS28
2015 Clarke, M. (2015). Dual careers: the new norm for Gen Y professionals?. Career Development International, 20(6), 562-582.
DOI Scopus20 WoS16
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 Scopus34 WoS29
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 Scopus137 WoS122
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 Scopus26 WoS21
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 Scopus34 WoS31
2011 Clarke, M. (2011). Advancing women's careers through leadership development programs. Employee Relations: The International Journal, 33(5), 498-515.
DOI Scopus78 WoS59
2010 Crossman, J., & Clarke, M. (2010). International experience and graduate employability: stakeholder perceptions on the connection. Higher Education, 59(5), 595-613.
DOI Scopus310 WoS262
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 Scopus75 WoS60
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 Scopus166
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 Scopus134
2007 Clarke, M. (2007). Where to from here? Evaluating employability during career transition. Journal of Management & Organization, 13(3), 196-211.
DOI Scopus14 WoS9
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 Scopus11

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.

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

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