Prof. Dr. Yvonne Brunetto | Organizational Justice | Research Excellence Award

Southern Cross University | Australia

Yvonne Brunetto is a Professor of Management and Human Resource Management at Southern Cross University, where she works in the School of Business and Tourism. She earned her PhD in Management and has devoted her career to researching the individual and organisational determinants of employee performance, commitment, wellbeing and resilience across public and private sectors — including nurses, police officers, engineers and other professional workers in multiple countries. Her scholarship is extensive and impactful: she has published around 100 journal articles (with roughly 90 since 2011), and her work has been widely cited; according to a recent profile she has a Google Scholar h-index of 37. Her research spans emotional labour, psychological capital, leadership, supervisor–subordinate relationships, organisational commitment, workplace well-being, employee retention and safety across sectors such as healthcare, policing and public administration in countries including Australia, UK, Italy, USA, Malta and Brazil. ANZAM+2Cambridge University Press & Assessment+2 She has not only contributed to empirical research (for example, showing how supervisor–subordinate relationships and psychological capital influence police officers’ training satisfaction and commitment) but has also translated academic findings into practical interventions — delivering resilience leadership and emotional well-being/psychological-capital training to middle managers in health and government sectors, with measurable improvements in employee outcomes.

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