Dr Stephen Teo is a professor of HRM and Head of the Management and Marketing Department, La Trobe University. He joined La Trobe Business School after spending some time with Northumbria University in the UK. He was a Professor of Work and Performance and professorial research fellow at Edith Cowan University, Australia. He served as Associate Dean Research in the School of Business and Law at ECU. He is recognised as one of the leading scholars in the field of human resource management, as shown by the outcome of the 2012 New Zealand Performance-based Research Funding evaluation. He has published in leading refereed journals such as Human Resource Management (USA), Human Resource Management Journal, Journal of Vocational Behavior, the International Journal of Human Resource Management, International Business Review, Work & Stress, Asia Pacific Journal of Management, and others such as the Journal of Advanced Nursing. His most recent projects examined the impact of organizational change on the well-being and performance of public sector employees in Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, the USA and Vietnam. He is currently undertaking research into workplace ill-treatments and micro-management. In addition to research, Prof Teo is passionate about learning and teaching, in particular the use of group assessment in the diverse, multicultural classroom. He received a citation for his teaching excellence from the Australian Learning and Teaching Council in 2007. Prof Teo was the winner of the AUT Vice Chancellor's Research Excellence Award in 2013. Prof Teo is a member of the following professional associations: Fellow of the Australian Human Resources Institute (AHRI), Chartered Fellow, Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), Fellow, Royal Society of Arts, USA Academy of Management, and the Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management (ANZAM). Prof Teo is appointed as a Research Mentor of the ANZAM (2015-17). He was also a Conjoint Professor of Management with the Newcastle University (2014-19) and Visiting Professor with the School of Business, University of New South Wales, Canberra (since 2014).