Cross-Appointments
Fields of Study
- Human Resources Management
- Industrial/Employment Relations
- Labour and Employment Law
- Labour Market Policy
- Organizational Behaviour
Areas of Interest
Research
- Labour-management relationship
- Union impact
- Employee voice
- Compensation and income inequality
- Strategic human resource management
- Role/professionalization of HRM
- Organizational governance
- Co-op development
- Policy implementation
Teaching
- Strategy and governance
- Human resource management
- Labour relations and labourpolicy
- Organizational behaviour (decision-making; negotiations)
- Co-operatives and social economy
- Research methods
Full publications list
Biography
Dr. Dionne Pohler is an associate professor, appointed at the Centre for Industrial Relations and Human Resources and the Rotman School of Management Department of Organizational Behaviour and Human Resources at the University of Toronto. She is also a Fellow of Co-operative Strategy and Governance at the Centre for the Study of Co-operatives at the University of Saskatchewan. Her research covers topics on work and employment, unions and labour relations, organizational governance, and co-operative economic development, with a particular focus on rural settler and indigenous communities. Major current projects include investigating the causes of the gender earnings gap and the implementation challenges of labour legislation and social policies in Canada.