Andrew Dhaenens

With a background in human resources, Andrew's primary area of research is work relationships with supporting areas of interest in mentoring, family business, and social networks. Across these topics, he is currently working on many projects around the future of work including work arrangements, organisational change, and employee turnover. Some of his work can be found in Human Resource Management Review, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Journal of Business Ethics, and Group & Organization Management with an upcoming publication in the Journal of Construction Engineering and Management regarding the impacts of working from home on work-life balance satisfaction and employee turnover. He is also guest editing a 2026 special issue on the role of HR professionals in managing alternative work arrangements for the International Journal of Human Resource Management.

Andrew is an applied and engaged academic. He unequivocally takes projects to heart and actively cares for partner organisations in creating a better future. Since 2022, he has helped his research teams achieve over $700,000 in competitive grants and industry funding including an SSHRC Insight Grant (Canada) on workplace incivility. Alongside Prof Karin Sanders, he formerly led UNSW Business School's Hybrid Work Leadership (HWL) research lab from 2021-2024 as an applied and translational research lab on the topic of hybrid and flexible work arrangements with specific expertise on how human resources can shape learning, work relationships, and employee outcomes to create both industry deliverables and research outcomes that create better organisations via their employee work arrangements.

Andrew is also an active media contributor with his work and commentary being featured across many popular media outlets (print, radio, and television) including ABC Radio, Sydney Morning Herald, Sky News, 2GB, SBS World News, Qantas Magazine, Canberra Times, the Telegraph, HRM Magazine, the Age, Lawyers Weekly, Australian Financial Review, 7NEWS, and The New Daily. Andrew has significant experience in program oversight, course development, and teaching across a wide variety of courses: Human Resources, Business Communication, Training & Development, Compensation, HR Policies & Practices, Management & Production, Managerial & Behavioral Processes (OB), Organizational Theory, Design, & Change, and Family Business/Entrepreneurship. Previously, he has overseen UNSW's various HRM programs as well as served as the inaugural director leading the strategic development and delivery of UNSW Online's MHRM program/HR graduate certificates (launched in July 2023).