2026 Thomas N. Garavan: Business and Management Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Business and Management	60	553	516	1	1	270	12853

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Business and Management in Ireland Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Business and Management in Ireland Leader Award
2024 - Research.com Business and Management in Ireland Leader Award
2023 - Research.com Business and Management in Ireland Leader Award
2022 - Research.com Business and Management in Ireland Leader Award

Overview

Thomas N. Garavan is affiliated with University College Cork in Ireland. Their academic work primarily spans the fields of Business, Management and Accounting as well as Social Sciences. Within these areas, their research focuses notably on subfields including Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Sociology and Political Science, Strategy and Management, Social Psychology, and Applied Psychology.

The main topics addressed in Garavan's publications include:

Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior
Innovation and Knowledge Management
Human Resource Development and Performance Evaluation
Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences
Management and Organizational Studies
Human Resource and Talent Management
Employment and Welfare Studies

They have published extensively in a variety of academic journals. Frequent publication venues include:

Academy of Management Proceedings
Human Resource Management Journal
The International Journal of Human Resource Management
Gender Work and Organization
Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources

Thomas N. Garavan has collaborated regularly with several co-authors, among them:

Fergal O'Brien
Colette Darcy
Maura Sheehan
Ronan Carbery
Clíodhna MacKenzie

Selected recent research papers by Garavan include:

Training and organisational performance: A meta-analysis of temporal, institutional and organisational context moderators (2020, Human Resource Management Journal)
Employee perceptions of individual green HRM practices and voluntary green work behaviour: a signalling theory perspective (2022, Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources)

Best Publications

Competencies and workplace learning: some reflections on the rhetoric and the reality

Thomas N. Garavan;David M. McGuire

653
Citations
Entrepreneurship education and training programmes: A review and evaluation - Part 2

Thomas N. Garavan;Barra O′Cinneide

608
Citations
Human capital accumulation: the role of human resource development

Thomas N. Garavan;Michael Morley;Patrick Gunnigle;Eammon Collins

511
Citations
A Strategic Perspective on Human Resource Development

Thomas N. Garavan

457
Citations
Mapping talent development: definition, scope and architecture

Thomas N. Garavan;Ronan Carbery;Andrew Rock

436
Citations
Strategic Human Resource Development

Thomas N. Garavan

408
Citations
Strategic Human Resource Development.

Thomas N. Garavan

401
Citations
The learning organization: a review and evaluation

Thomas Garavan

380
Citations
Human Resource Development and Society: Human Resource Development’s Role in Embedding Corporate Social Responsibility, Sustainability, and Ethics in Organizations:

Thomas N. Garavan;David McGuire

364
Citations
Predicting hotel managers’ turnover cognitions

Ronan Carbery;Thomas N. Garavan;Fergal O'Brien;Joe McDonnell

343
Citations
Training, development, education and learning: different or the same?

Thomas N. Garavan

323
Citations
Human Resource Development in SMEs: A Systematic Review of the Literature

Ciara T. Nolan;Thomas N. Garavan

317
Citations
The Co-operative Education Process and Organisational Socialisation: A Qualitative Study of Student Perceptions of Its Effectiveness.

Thomas N. Garavan;Claire Murphy

224
Citations
360° feedback process: performance, improvement and employee career development

Alma M. McCarthy;Thomas N. Garavan

218
Citations
360 degree feedback: its role in employee development

Thomas N. Garavan;Michael Morley;Mary Flynn

213
Citations
The emergence of strategic human resource development

Thomas N. Garavan;Pat Costine;Noreen Heraty

203
Citations
Exploring the Strategic Role of Human Resource Development in Organizational Crisis Management

Jia Wang;Holly M. Hutchins;Thomas N. Garavan

202
Citations
Exploring Human Resource Development: A Levels of Analysis Approach:

Thomas N. Garavan;David McGuire;David O’Donnell

196
Citations
Contemporary HRD research: a triarchy of theoretical perspectives and their prescriptions for HRD

Thomas N. Garavan;Patrick Gunnigle;Michael Morley

195
Citations
Human resource development and workplace learning: emerging theoretical perspectives and organisational practices

Thomas N. Garavan;Michael Morley;Patrick Gunnigle;David McGuire

184
Citations
Collective Learning Processes and Human Resource Development

Thomas N. Garavan;Alma McCarthy

170
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael J. Morley University of Limerick

Patrick Gunnigle University of Limerick

Eddy S. Ng Queen's University

Mark N. K. Saunders University of Birmingham

Kevin R. Murphy Boys Town

Eugene Sadler-Smith University of Surrey

Paul Lynch Edinburgh Napier University

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