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Dr Esme Franken

Senior Lecturer

Staff Member Details
Mobile: 08 6304 5488
Email: e.franken@ecu.edu.au
Campus: Joondalup  
Room: JO2.349  
ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6869-3155

Dr Esme Franken is the Mental Awareness, Respect and Safety (MARS) Centre Coordinator - an ECU Industry Collaboration Centre for the Mining Sector and a Senior Lecturer in the School of Business and Law.

Key Research Areas

  • Work and wellbeing
  • Public sector organisations and leadership

Biography

Esme earned her PhD in Human Resources and Industrial Relations from Victoria University of Wellington in 2019. Since January 2020, she has held the position of Lecturer in Management at ECU. Esme has a deep commitment to teaching, particularly in the areas of workplace wellbeing, healthy workplaces, organisational behaviour, and human resource management. As an educator, Esme is focused on developing and delivering content that effectively blends industry relevance with theory, both at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

Esme's scholarly contributions are substantial, reflected in her publications in quality academic journals such as the International Journal of Human Resource Management, Gender, Work and Organization, and the Review of Public Personnel Administration. She has cultivated collaborative networks both nationally and internationally. Her research has led to productive partnerships in countries including Brazil, the UK, Germany, and New Zealand. Furthermore, her involvement in various industry-funded projects, totalling more than $600,000 AUD, reflect her practical impact in the field. Esme currently serves as a board member for the Australia and New Zealand Academy of Management, and is a member of the British Academy of Management.

SBL Research Centres or Cluster/s
  • Mental Awareness, Respect and Safety (MARS), an ECU industry collaboration centre for the mining sector
    • Respect at Work
    • Psychosocial Safety Climate
    • Relational Leadership
  • Leadership and People Research Cluster
    • Human Resource Management
    • Leadership Capability

Media Topics
  • Worker wellbeing
  • Non-traditional employment experiences
  • Employee growth and development

Research Areas and Interests
  • Leadership capability
  • Public sector work environments
  • Worker wellbeing
  • Non-traditional employment experiences
  • Employee growth and development

Awards and Recognition
  • 2022 – ANZAM Best Paper Award – Public Sector and NFP Stream, Australia and New Zealand Academy of Management
  • 2022 – British Academy of Management Best Paper Award – Leadership Stream, British Academy of Management
  • 2021 – ECU School of Business and Law Discipline Award (Management
  • 2021 – AIRAANZ Best Postgraduate Paper Award, Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand, $200AUD
  • 2020 – Emerald/EFMD Outstanding Doctoral Research Award, Emerald Publishing, €1500

Professional associations
  • Australia and New Zealand Academy of Management (ANZAM)
  • European Association of Work and Organisational Psychology (EAWOP)

Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy, New Zealand, 2019.

Research Outputs

2024

Journal Articles

  • Franken, E., Hernandez Grande, A., Farr-Wharton, B., Bentley, T., Sharafizad, F. (2024). Seeing the forest for the trees: The role of growth-oriented leadership in shaping public servants’ work experiences. Public Personnel Management, 2024(Article in press), 25 pages. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1177/00910260241278378.
  • Hussain, A., Franken, E., Bentley, T., Jogulu, U. (2024). The value of work for doctors in Pakistan: Towards a framework for ensuring decent work. Labour and Industry: a journal of the social and economic relations of work, 2024(Article in press), 24 pages. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1080/10301763.2024.2356366.

2023

Journal Articles

  • Sharafizad, F., Franken, E., Jogulu, U., Teo, S. (2023). “Being a carer, you just get forgotten!”: Exploring the experiences and opportunities of informal primary carers in Australia. International Journal of Care and Caring, 2023(Article in press), 17 pages. https://doi.org/10.1332/239788223X16789866214981.
  • Plimmer, G., Kuntz, J., Berman, E., Malinen, S., Näswall, K., Franken, E. (2023). The negative relationships between employee resilience and ambiguity, complexity, and inter‐agency collaboration. Australian Journal of Public Administration, 82(2), 248-270. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8500.12587.
  • Franken, E., Plimmer, G., Malinen, S. (2023). Growth-oriented management and employee outcomes: Employee resilience as a mechanism for growth. Leadership and Organization Development Journal, 44(5), 627-642. https://doi.org/10.1108/LODJ-01-2023-0022.
  • Franken, E., Sharafizad, F., Brown, K. (2023). Gender, vulnerabilities, and how the other becomes the otherer in academia. Gender, Work and Organization, 2023(Article in press), 24 pages. https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.13096.
  • Jogulu, U., Green, N., Franken, E., Vassiley, A., Bentley, T., Onnis, L. (2023). Work arrangement ‘yo-yo’: forced flexibility from the office to home and back again. Personnel Review, 2023(Article in press), 20 pages. https://doi.org/10.1108/PR-02-2023-0088.
  • Ng, K., Franken, E., Nguyen, D., Teo, S. (2023). Job satisfaction and public service motivation in Australian nurses: the effects of abusive supervision and workplace bullying. International Journal of Human Resource Management, 34(11), 2235-2264. https://doi.org/10.1080/09585192.2022.2070715.
  • Jogulu, U., Franken, E. (2023). The career resilience of senior women managers: A cross-cultural perspective. Gender, Work and Organization, 30(1), 280-300. https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.12829.

Reports

  • Bentley, T., Onnis, L., O'Neill, S., Brunetto, Y., Blackwood, K., Bezemer, P., Franken, E., Farr-Wharton, B., Hernandez Grande, A., Huuskes, L. (2023). Strengthening the Priority of WHS for Business Leaders. Phase 2 Report. Joondalup, WA. ECU.

2022

Book Chapters

  • Franken, E., Plimmer, G., Malinen, S., Bryson, J. (2022). Growing and Adapting During Continuous Change: Building Employee Resilience in the Public Sector. Towards Resilient Organizations and Societies: A Cross-Sectoral and Multi-Disciplinary Perspective (143-170). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-82072-5_6.

Journal Articles

  • Plimmer, G., Berman, E., Malinen, S., Franken, E., Naswall, K., Kuntz, J., Löfgren, K. (2022). Resilience in Public Sector Managers. Review of Public Personnel Administration, 42(2), 338-367. https://doi.org/10.1177/0734371X20985105.
  • Plimmer, G., Franken, E., Franken, M. (2022). Navigating emotional labour with emotional competence: insights from midwifery. Labour and Industry: a journal of the social and economic relations of work, 32(3), 307-333. https://doi.org/10.1080/10301763.2022.2143002.

2021

Journal Articles

  • Zeier, K., Plimmer, G., Franken, E. (2021). Developing shared leadership in a public organisation: Processes, paradoxes and consequences. Journal of Management and Organization, 27(3), 564-581. https://doi.org/10.1017/jmo.2018.78.
  • Franken, E., Plimmer, G., Malinen, S., Bryson, J., Berman, E. (2021). Building people up: Growth oriented leadership in the public sector. Australian Journal of Public Administration, 80(4), 661-689. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8500.12520.
  • Franken, E., Bentley, T., Shafaei Darastani, A., Farr-Wharton, B., Onnis, L., Omari, M. (2021). Forced flexibility and remote working: opportunities and challenges in the new normal. Journal of Management and Organization, 27(6), 1131-1149. https://doi.org/10.1017/jmo.2021.40.

2020

Journal Articles

  • Franken, E., Plimmer, G., Malinen, S. (2020). Paradoxical leadership in public sector organisations: Its role in fostering employee resilience. Australian Journal of Public Administration, 79(1), 93-110. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8500.12396.

2019

Journal Articles

Research Projects

  • An Online Learning Resource and Evaluation for Promoting Mental Health and Wellbeing in Hospitality, Healthy Mind Menu, Grant, 2024 ‑ 2025, $44,600.
  • Growth-oriented leadership: Exploring the congruence between employee and leader perceptions, Edith Cowan University, Early-Mid Career Researcher Grant Scheme 2022 (Stream 2), 2023 ‑ 2024, $23,932.
  • MARS: The role of team belongingness in shaping mental health for fly-in/fly-out workers on remote mine sites, DMIRS: Mental Awareness, Respect and Safety - MARS, Grant, 2024, $43,400.
  • Crafting a psychosocial risk taxonomy for the Mining Sector, Fortescue Metals Group, Health & Safety Division, 2024, $57,050.
  • Multiple Careers, Competing Demands: Multiple Jobholding (MJH) and elite semi-professional women athletes, Federation Internationale de Football Association, Grant, 2023 ‑ 2024, $67,417.
  • Strengthening the Priority of WHS for Business Leaders , NSW Government, Centre for Work Health and Safety Tender, 2022 ‑ 2024, $369,050.
  • A toolkit for promoting mental health and wellbeing in hospitality, Healthy Mind Menu, Grant, 2023, $18,164.
  • Mental Health – Enhancing workplace mental health during and post-COVID-19, Department of Jobs, Tourism, Science and Innovation, Covid-19 Research Fund, 2020 ‑ 2023, $100,000.
  • Carers Connect to Education and Employment (Try, Test and Learn), Australian Medical Association (WA), Grant, 2020 ‑ 2021, $13,591.
  • BHP - Heritage: Work and Wellbeing, BHP Billiton, Grant, 2020, $47,989.

Research Student Supervision

Current Supervisions

No data available

Completed Supervisions

Associate Supervisor

  • Doctor of Philosophy, Understanding workplace bullying in the Pakistani public sector: An ecological systems perspective
  • Doctor of Philosophy, The concept and role of meaningful work in the context of Pakistan – An exploratory study of junior doctors
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