About
Neville Meyers is one of the few researchers actively working in telework in Australia. His work focuses on changes in the contemporary workplace. His particular interests are the expanded use of teleworking and other forms of remote work to address work and lifestyle issues, forge new client relationships, and develop new criteria for organisational effectiveness in distributed work environments. His most current interest is the extension of telework for business continuity (he will present on this theme at the Telework for the Pandemic Workshop to be hosted in Canberra on August 16, 2006 by the Research Network for a Secure Australia).
To return to the beginning….. Meyers’ PhD in Business (2000) empirically validated the personal and environmental
factors - as well as predictive factors - that make telecommuting/telework sustainable in both Australian and U.S
business contexts. His research towards the development of a Telework Effectiveness Scale has been formally
acknowledged by Hewlett-Packard, Palo Alto who, initially, endorsed his study and contributed to his data sample.
Subsequently, he has also been senior editor-chair for Telework mini-Tracks at the Americas Management Conference
on Information Systems (AMCIS) in Boston (2001) and Dallas (2002). As well, in other conference divisions dealing
with management aspects of IT diffusion, Meyers has additionally peer-reviewed papers for the Australian Computing
Information Systems Conference, as well as AMCIS, the Academy of Management Conference, and the Australian New
Zealand Academy of Management Conference (ANZAM). He is currently a standing reviewer for international HR journal,
Human Relations.
In terms of professional endorsement, Meyers has run fifteen telework seminars including those for the
Australian Computer Society (Queensland), the Australian Psychological Society (Melbourne), and the Australian
Defence Force Academy, Canberra. He has also been asked to participate in several industry briefings on
telework-mobile work in both Australia and the United States including Hewlett-Packard (Victoria), SAP
(Philadelphia, Palo Alto) and the Australian Taxation Office (Canberra). As well, he has consulted on telework for
both OPTUS and Telstra and in 2003 consulted for Microsoft, Sydney on assessing levels of computer literacy in 650
Australian households.
More recently, in 2005, Meyers was also invited to contribute as 'expert presenter' to Senator H. Coonan's
Committee on Telework (the Australian Telework Advisory Committee - ATAC), and to participate as 'expert presenter'
for visiting ATAC members to QUT (March, 2005) and to the full Senate Advisory Committee in Canberra (August, 2005).
This work is being taken forward with DCITA, Canberra to discuss (a) possible implementation of the earlier ATAC
recommendation; and (b) the potential establishment of a Government-Industry funded independent National Advisory
Centre on Telework (with QUT being considered as one such possible hosting site).
Because of his wide applied research experience in telework, Meyers came to the attention of Shell Australia in
2005 during his presentation at the industry conference Going Virtual: The Future of Work 2nd Asia-Pacific
Conference on Remote, Virtual Working (Brisbane, August 2005). He was subsequently invited to present a proposal
(Meyers, N. (2006) Critical Success Factors for Positioning Australian Business Talent in a Globalising World: A
Total Systems Approach) which was approved and served as the basis for the current QUT-Shell Australia ARC
Industry Linkage Grant application: Work Innovations for Australian Companies Competing in the Global Knowledge
Economy. This project is aimed at benefiting not just Shell Australia but to provide a knowledge base – a template
– from which other Australian companies might benefit.
On June 6, 2006 Meyers presented for the leading twelve Queensland State Government CEOs on the theme Business
Continuity and Workplace Innovation: New Perspectives for the Flexible Workplace. This is a new research
opportunity. Negotiations with the Queensland State Government are continuing.
In other contemporary research endeavours, Meyers has a number of publications being submitted or under consideration.
Along with Professor Greg Hearn he is also currently developing a book proposal (Meyers & Hearn: Creative
Workstyles for the Global Knowledge Economy) to be submitted later in 2006 to Allen & Unwin, Sydney.
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Selected Publications
Journal Articles
Meyers, N. (2003). If Big Brother Comes to A Venue Near you! Employee Surveillance Issues and the Communication Professional. Australian Journal of Communication , 30(2), 101-114.
Tilley, C.M., Hills, A.P., Bruce, C.S, & Meyers, N. (2002). Communication, information and well-being for Australians with physical disabilities. Disability and Rehabilitation , 24(9), 503-510.
Meyers, N., & Hearn, G. (2000). Communication and control; Case studies in Australian telecommuting. Australian Journal of Communication , 27(2), 39-64.
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Refereed Conference papers
Meyers, N., & Hearn, G. (2007). Communication issues and communicative self-efficacy for sustainable telework: An empirical study. Refereed paper accepted for presentation 2007 International Communication Association Conference San Francisco, May 24-28, 2007.
Meyers, N., Hearn, G. & Bradley, L. (2006). Critical success factors for positioning Australian business talent in the global knowledge economy: A current research agenda. Proceedings of the 20th Australian & New Zealand Academy of Management Conference, Yeppoon, Queensland, December, 2006.
Meyers, N. (2006). Work-lifestyle issues in the global corporation: A control perspective. Proceedings of the 2006 Social Change in the 21st Century Conference, December 2006. Publisher: Centre for Social Change Research, School of Humanities and Human Services, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia. http://www.socialchange.qut.edu.au/conferences/socialchange/docs/conf_papers2006/Meyers_FIN.pdf.
Low, I-Mei and Meyers, N.T., (2004). Mobile phone use in the everyday lives of your professionals: An exploratory analysis. Proceedings of the Australian New Zealand Communication Association Annual Conference. Sydney, June 2004.
Meyers, N., & Fleming, M. (2003). Assessing University Students' Coping Behaviours While Learning to Program: Report on a First-Step Analysis. Proceedings of the Australasian Conference on Information Systems , Perth, November, 2003.
Meyers, N. (2003). Employee Privacy in the Electronic Workplace: Current Issues for IT Professionals. Proceedings of the Australasian Conference on Information Systems, Perth, November, 2003 .
Meyers, N, & Thompson, R. (2003). Self-efficacy Beliefs as Predictors of Telework Sustainability: What the Data Tells Us. Proceedings of the Australian New Zealand Academy of Management Conference, Perth, December, 2003.
Meyers, N. (2003). Employer Supervision in the Electronic Workplace. Implications for HR Professionals. Proceedings of the Australia New Zealand Academy of Management Conference , Perth, December, 2003.
Meyers, N., & Hearn, G. (2002), Grounding Telework Strategy in University Setting Report on a First-step Methodology. Paper presented at the Americas Management Conference on Information Systems (Dallas, 2002)
Thompson, R., & Meyers, N. (2002), Strategic Telework and the Concept of Fit. Paper presented at the Americas Management Conference on Information Systems (Dallas, 2002).
Meyers, N. & Hearn, G. (2001), Psychological Factors and Sustainable Telecommuting: Importance of Need for Control; Paper presented at the Americas Management Conference on Information Systems (Boston, August, 2001).
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Selected Industry Seminars/Conferences
A representative sample (for the past five years) of industry papers is presented for relevance to the current application:
Meyers, N. (2006). The Viability of Telework During a Pandemic . Telework for the Pandemic. Paper presented at the One-Day Seminar, Australian Homeland Security Research Centre (Research Network for a Secure Australia, Canberra, October, 2006).
Meyers, N. (2006). Program Leader for One-Day Seminar Telework for the Pandemic (Australian Homeland Security research Centre Research Network for a Secure Australia, Canberra, October 2006).
Meyers, N., & Hearn, G. (2005). Virtually challenged: Telework and the disabled worker. 2 nd Asia Pacific Conference on Remote, Virtual Working. Brisbane, August, 2005.
Meyers, N. (2005) Assessing communication effectiveness in virtual work environments. Se minar for QUT Graduate School of Business Executive Update Series (Business Seminars for Downtown Managers) , Two-hour seminar, Brisbane, March 22, 2005.
Meyers, N. (2005) Teleworker's person-centred need for control. A consultancy perspective. Australian Psychological Association, Division of Organisational Psychologists). Two-hour seminar, Melbourne, March 23 2005.
Meyers, N. (2004). Strategic telework for the age of uncertainty. Going Virtual: The Future of Work . First Asia-Pacific Conference on Remote-Virtual Work , Brisbane, August, 2004.
Meyers, N. (2003). Strategic Telework in the Agile Workplace: Issues for IT Professionals. Seminar sponsor: School of Computing systems, Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra, 3-4April, 2003.
Meyers, N. (2003). Strategic telework: Current trends and issues. Seminar for the Australian Computer Society, Brisbane, 24 February, 2003.
Meyers, N. (2001). Telework: A Status Report and Emergent Issues for IT Professionals. Seminar Presentation to the IT Faculty, Central Queensland University , 5 April, 2001.
Meyers, N. (2001). Telework 2001: A new management agenda. Seminar for Faculty of Business , Central Queensland University , 6 April, 2001.
Meyers, N., & Hearn, G. (2001). The Future of Telework at the Queensland University of Technology. Brisbane. Seminar for Information Technology Services Division, QUT.
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