Patrick O'Leary is a Lecturer in Human Resource Management in the Federation Business School at Federation University, Australia. He holds a PhD in Industrial Relations from the University of New South Wales (2008). His principal areas of research and teaching include industrial relations, management-employee relations, strategic human resource management, reward and performance management, research methods and labour history. He is currently engaged in research projects in the fields of comparative labour history, neoliberalism and regional employment relations. Dr O'Leary is also the current President of the Ballarat Trades and Labour Council.
