Kaye Thorn
Thesis1 urlhttps://hdl.handle.net/10182/3368
Thesis1 year1984
Thesis2 urlhttps://hdl.handle.net/10179/834
Thesis2 year2008

Kaye Jennifer Thorn is a New Zealand management and human resources academic, and is a full professor at Massey University. Thorn specialises in career progression, studying issues such as mobility, gender and hybrid work.

Academic career

Thorn completed a Master's thesis titled Public participation in resource allocation at the University of Canterbury in 1984, and worked as a tourism consultant and an economic analyst at the New Zealand Treasury before moving into academia. She completed a PhD titled Flight of the kiwi: an exploration of motives and behaviours of self-initiated mobility at Massey University in 2008.[1][2] Thorn joined the faculty of Massey, rising to full professor in 2024.[3] She is Associate Head of the Massey School of Management.[3] Thorn is co-facilitator of a mentoring programme for women graduates, and coordinates an internship programme in the College of Business.[4]

Thorn researches career mobility and the motivations of people living and working abroad, including such topics as 'the brain drain'. She has also investigated gender issues in careers.[3][5] Her paper on how couples use strategies to manage hybrid work with Dr Joanne Mutter of the University of Auckland won the award for Best Paper Aligned to the Conference Theme – Common Good Human Resources Management at the 5th Human Resources International Conference in 2024.[6][7] She was also an author of a paper The Return Home: Expectations and Experiences of Self-Initiating Repatriate New Zealanders that won the 2017 Best International Paper award from the Academy of Management.[8]

In 2013 Thorn was awarded the Excellence in Governance Development Award at the inaugural Women in Governance awards, established by Women on Boards New Zealand.[4]

Selected works

References

  1. ^ Thorn, K. J. (1984). Public participation in resource allocation (MSc thesis). Research@Lincoln, University of Canterbury. hdl:10182/3368
  2. ^ Thorn, Kaye Jennifer (2008). Flight of the kiwi: an exploration of motives and behaviours of self-initiated mobility (PhD thesis). Massey Research Online, Massey University. hdl:10179/834
  3. ^ "2023 Professorial promotions announced" (in en-NZ). www.massey.ac.nz. Retrieved 2024-06-24.
  4. ^ "Mentor rewarded". North Harbour News. 26 July 2013. Retrieved 2024-06-25.
  5. ^ "Kaye Thorn: Sums for the return home" (in en-NZ). NZ Herald. 2024-06-26. Retrieved 2024-06-25.
  6. ^ "How are couples handling hybrid work? - The University of Auckland". www.auckland.ac.nz. Retrieved 2024-06-25.
  7. ^ "Will you marry...me and my hybrid workstation?" (in en-NZ). NZ Herald. 2024-06-26. Retrieved 2024-06-25.
  8. ^ "Awards and Recognition". AOM_CMS. Retrieved 2024-06-25.