Stanley Petzall, B.A. (Hons.), LLB (Hons) M.Sc, Grad. Dip. Pers. Man., PhD, Barrister and Solicitor, is a senior lecturer in the postgraduate Deakin Business School at Deakin University. He has extensive teaching experience at both undergraduate and MBA levels. He teaches organisational behaviour, industrial relations, comparative and international human resource management and business law. His recent research interests include comparative industrial relations and management in the Asian region, leadership and behavioural aspects of finance. He has consulted to a number of large organisations.
Keith Abbott, B.A. (Hons.), PhD (Cambridge) is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Business and Law at the Geelong Campus of Deakin University. He is the Unit Chair of Industrial Relations and also teaches Human Resource Management and International and Comparative HRM. He has worked in construction, mining and manufacturing in Australia, Britain, Papua New Guinea and Sweden. He has also been a trade union activist, political studies fellow within the Australian Federal Parliament, and has written numerous articles on European and transnational trade unionism.

Nils Timo, B.A., Grad. Dip., MPhil, PhD, is a senior lecturer in the School of Marketing and Management at Griffith University, Gold Coast Queensland, where he teaches Industrial Relations and Health and Safety Management. He has a background of over 20 years in industrial relations private practice and is a former Industrial Advocate for the Australian Workers Union. His research interests include wages policy, award restructuring and enterprise bargaining, managerial strategies and organisational change.