I have a love of research, quantitative methods, and Māori advancement. I am extremely proud to be a Māori academic and I am always seeking opportunities to maximise my research leadership and Māori research contribution. Under New Zealand’s PBRF, I am a world class ranked researcher and I enjoy mentoring colleagues and students towards publishing research (including top-ranked journals). Broadly, my research focuses on employees (e.g., wellbeing, job burnout, work-life balance, teams, leaders-followers) and employers (e.g., firm innovation, HR practices, entrepreneurship, retention). Within both aspects, I have a strong interest in Māori cultural factors including mātauranga Māori in business.

More recently, I have brought a renewed focus on research execution not only with publications but specifically media engagement. This involves numerous media and keynote presentations to make a significant contribution to Aotearoa employers and employees. In this covid-context, I was able to balance my research publishing role with providing public interest engagement (e.g., Great Resignation, burnout). This new focus on media before academia has been an interesting challenge and change, but one I readily enjoy.

In 2018, Professor Haar was appointed as a Member of the Marsden Fund Council and was the Convenor of the Marsden Economics and Human Behavioural Sciences panel for four years (until 2021). He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand Te Apārangi (2020), a Research Fellow of the Australia & New Zealand Academy of Management (since 2012), and a Chartered Fellow of the Human Resource Institute of New Zealand (HRINZ). He won the inaugural HRINZ HR Researcher of the Year Award in 2016 and in 2019, the HRINZ HR Research Team of the Year.

Career Highlights:

PBRF Rank: World Class (A) in 2012 and 2018

Elsevier World Top 2% of Scientists [citations only]

2021 ranked 800th out of 48,100 (Business & Management subfield). #2 in New Zealand and only Māori

Total Academic Outputs: 559 (141 refereed journal articles [9xA* + 51xA ranked] including 71 with students/junior staff) + 13 book chapters, + 6 industry reports + 313 refereed conference papers/presentations + 88 keynotes/invited presentations.

I have 5 non-academic papers (e.g., The Conversation).

10 best paper awards

Funding includes $6.68m (HRC, Marsden x2, Nga Pae) and 105m National Science Fund.

I have 18 PhD completions (10 as Chief) and have 4 current PhD students + 67 masters’ dissertation/thesis completions.

I have examined 31 PhD student theses and 21 master’s theses.

I have made 249 media engagements including 56 TV + 132 Newspaper/Press + 61 Radio interviews.

In Publons, I am ranked in the top 1% of reviewers.