Dr. Angus Duff Associate Professor

Research Interests

Dr. Duff's area of research interest broadly considers Human Resource Management from a micro perspective, looking at how work and organizations impact employees. His published research includes:

1. The consideration of the role of leadership styles in performance management coaching
2. Exposing how manager absenteeism impacts the absenteeism of subordinates
3. Considering work how work and career contribute to suicide, and
4. Exposing how experiencing shame at work compromises innovative behaviour.

His current research explores how workers who live in vans navigate work and van-living.

Publications

PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

Oluwafemi, T. & Duff, A.J. (2024), Entrepreneuring as existential transformation: a review of entrepreneurial identity with a typology of career and personal change, Cogent Business & Management.

Schreurs, B., Duff, A., Le Blanc, P.M. and Stone, T.H. (2022), Publishing quantitative careers research: challenges and recommendations, Career Development International, 27(1), 79-98. https://doi.org/10.1108/CDI-08-2021-0217

Duff, A.J. and Rankin, S.B. (2020). Exploring flexible home arrangements-an interview study of workers who live in vans, Career Development International, 25(7), 747-761. https://doi.org/10.1108/CDI-02-2020-0029

Duff, A.J. (2017). Compromising innovative behaviour with work shame, International Journal of Work Organisation and Emotion, 8(4), 249-268. doi: 10.1504/IJWOE.2017.10010196

Duff, A. J., Podolsky, M., Biron, M., & Chan, C. C. A. (2015). The interactive effect of team and manager absence on employee absence: A multi-level field study. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 88(1), 61-79. doi: 10.1111/joop.12078

Duff, A. J. & Chan, C. C. A. (2014). Investigating suicide as a career response. Career Development International, 19(1), 4-26.

Duff, A. J. (2013). Performance Management Coaching: Servant Leadership and Gender Implications. Leadership & Organization Development Journal, (34)3, 204-221.

Duff, A. J., Tahbaz, A. & Chan, C. C. A. (2012). The interactive effect of cultural intelligence and openness on task performance. Research and Practice in Human Resource Management, 20(1), 1-12.

BOOKS

Duff, A. J. (1997). Outsourcing information technology: Human resource implications. Kingston, ON: IRC Press.

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

Duff, A.J. (2022, Dec. 18). Why some people choose to live the nomadic van lifestyle, The Conversation.

Rankin, S. & Duff, A. (2020, Nov. 8). Why some workers are opting to live in their vans, The Conversation.

Duff, A (2020). Understanding work-related suicide after the Molson Coors shooting, The Conversation

Duff, A (2017). Dress for distress: The challenge of dress-related legislation in 2017, Canadian HR Reporter.

Duff, A. & O'Fee (2017). Women already don???t have to wear heels at work, The Province. March 14, 2017.

Duff, A. (2016). Filling the pool with synchronized element of talent management, HR Edge, Fall Issue, 25-26.

Duff, A. (2016). The distressing reality of "sexy" uniforms, Canadian HR Reporter.

Duff, A. & Barragan, S. (2015). Making a comeback back: Best practices in boomerang hiring, Canadian HR Reporter.

Duff, A. (2013). Motivation un-Pinked: Monetary rewards - when and how do they work, Canadian HR Reporter, 26(12), 19.

Duff, A. (2012). Performance management year-round exercise, Canadian HR Reporter, 25(7), 14, 16.

Duff, A. (2010). How do we know if we're strategic?, Canadian HR Reporter, 23(15), 35.

Duff, A. (2009). Code of conduct elevates HR profession. Canadian HR Reporter, 22(13), 23.

Duff, A. (2009, January 16). Insider's advice: What to do to keep your job. The Globe and Mail, B. 13.

Courses Taught

• HRMN 2820 Human Resource Management
• HRMN 3830 HR Planning & Staffing
• HRMN 4890 Human Resource Strategy and Professional Practice
• BUSN 5060 Human Resource Management
• ORGB 3810 Organizational Theory and Design