Johanna Weststar, MIR, Ph.D.Johanna Weststar

Assistant Professor
Management

T (902) 496-8770
F (902) 420-5119

Sobey Building 247
weststar@smu.ca

Johanna received her PhD in Industrial Relations and Human Resource Management from the Centre for Industrial Relations and Human Resource Management at the University of Toronto in 2007. She joined Saint Mary's University in January, 2008. Johanna's thesis is entitled "Studies of Learning and Work: Job Control, Participation in Learning and Underemployment" and mixes qualitative and quantitative research to explore how workers job control can increase learning participation and knowledge application on the job. A specific focus was placed on information technology workers.

Johanna has several other research interests within the field of industrial relations. She has conducted some of the first research on labour trustees who serve on pension boards in Canada and is currently expanding this research to the US and the UK. Johanna is also building on her research in information technology to study working conditions, quality of life and human resource issues in the electronic games industry.

 

RESEARCH

  • correspondence between learning and work
  • high-tech industries such as information technology, electonic games and new media
  • pension board governance and diversity - particularly the role of labour trustees
  • the roles and activities of labour relations officers

 

COURSES

  • MGMT 3386 - Industrial Relations
  • MGMT 4486 - Personnel, Training and Development