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Dr. Kiera Dempsey-Brench

Dr. Kiera Dempsey-Brench

Assistant Professor, Trinity Business School

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Biography

Kiera is an Assistant Professor in Human Resource Management at Trinity Business School, Trinity College Dublin. Her research is guided by an overarching agenda on how organisations and business schools can develop employees' and students' professional and leadership skills, whilst simultaneously making a positive impact on the community. Kiera is passionate in driving forward human resource management (HRM) and corporate social responsibility (CSR) in research and practice, so that social challenges can be mitigated. As such, a large line of her inquiry looks at the intersection of HR and CSR. She explores how HR and CSR functions break down silos in order to collaborate to create value, and what factors influence or inhibit the collaboration process. She is also interested in responsible management and social initiatives, such as employee volunteering and international service-learning assignments. Kiera's research appears in high-rated journals, such as International Journal of Human Resource Management, MIT Sloan Management Review, and Human Resource Management Review. Her work has also been recognised internationally and won awards, such as the Best Paper in the 2021 Management Education Division of the Academy of Management Conference. Lastly, Kiera advocates for bridging the scholarly-practitioner divide, and has collaborated and consulted a number of Fortune 500 organisations to solve existing business problems and create new knowledge.

Publications and Further Research Outputs

  • Kiera Dempsey-Brench and Amanda Shantz, Skills-based volunteering: A systematic literature review of the intersection of skills and employee volunteering, Human Resource Management Review, 2021, p100874Journal Article, 2021, DOI
  • Amanda Shantz and Melissa Jane Sayer and Janice Byrne and Kiera Dempsey-Brench and Shirley Kavanagh, In the eye of the storm: Turbulent times and the MBA, Academy of Management Proceedings, 2021, (1), 2021, p12905Journal Article, 2021, DOI
  • Amanda Shantz, Melissa Sayer, Janice Byrne, Kiera Dempsey-Brench, Grand Challenges and the MBA, Journal of Management Education, 47, (3), 2023, p292 - 323Journal Article, 2023
  • Kiera Dempsey-Brench, Amanda Shantz, When give-back turns to blowback: Employee responses to learning from skills-based volunteering, International Journal of Human Resource Management, 34, (8), 2023, p1500 - 1529Journal Article, 2023
  • Amanda Shantz, Kiera Dempsey-Brench, How Volunteerism Enhances Workplace Skills, MIT Sloan Management Review, 62, (4), 2021Journal Article, 2021
  • Kiera Dempsey-Brench, Rebecca Hewett, Amanda Shantz, Issue buying and selling: A social identity perspective., Academy of Management, Boston, USA, 2023Conference Paper, 2023
  • Kiera Dempsey-Brench, Rebecca Hewett, Amanda Shantz, Volunteers needed, but not you! Exploring employee volunteering tensions in a public service organisation, Academy of Management, Seattle, USA, 2022Conference Paper, 2022
  • Kiera Dempsey-Brench, Kerstin Alfes, Amanda Shantz, Does one size fit all? HR attributions of employee volunteering from a non-profit perspective, Academy of Management, Vancouver, Canada, 2020Conference Paper, 2020
  • Kiera Dempsey-Brench, Amanda Shantz, Skills-based volunteering and learning, Human Resources International Conference, Dublin, Ireland, 2019Conference Paper, 2019
  • Mihwa Seong, Kiera Dempsey-Brench and Amanda Shantz, The Surprising Dark Side of MNCs: CSR Engagement: Dynamics between National Culture and Gender, Academy of International Business, Seoul, South Korea, 2024Conference Paper, 2024
  • Jon Gruda, Kiera Dempsey-Brench, With a Little Help from My Traits: Personality and Perceptions in Inclusive Leadership, 7th Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Leadership Symposium, Greece, 2024Conference Paper, 2024
  • Seong, M., Dempsey-Brench, K., & Shantz, A., The Surprising Dark Side of MNCs' CSR Engagement: Dynamics Between National Culture and Gender, Academy of Managmeent, Chicago, USA, 2024Conference Paper, 2024, DOI
  • Kiera Dempsey-Brench, What inspires employees, Germany, 2023Invited Talk
  • Kiera Dempsey-Brench, Inspiring employees, Germany, 2022Invited Talk
  • Kiera Dempsey-Brench, Social mobility and employee volunteering, 2023, Accenture, UKInvited Talk
  • Kiera Dempsey-Brench, All together now: Creating added value through corporate volunteering partnerships, 2022, Austrian Fundraising Association and the Austrian Ministry for Social Affairs, Vienna, AustriaInvited Talk
  • Kiera Dempsey-Brench, Employee volunteering and community engagement, 2022Invited Talk

Research Expertise

Responsible management and leadership, human resource management, corporate social responsibility, corporate sustainability, international human resource management, employee volunteering, HR process implementation.

  • Title
    An in-depth case study looking at how volunteering functions within a Fortune 500 organization
    Summary
    The purpose of this study is to understand more about employee volunteering across different countries at a Fortune 500 country. The research team aims to understand the devolution of employee volunteer programs across regions. The project will help the organization evaluate volunteering trends across countries, highlighting similarities and differences within the MNC. The scale and scope also will enable other organizations to learn from the insights. To put the findings into perspective literature of existing initiatives will be used as benchmarking.
    Date From
    2/1/2024
  • Title
    The implementation and evolution of employee volunteer programmes
    Summary
    The primary goal of the project is to understand the implementation and evolution of the Government of Jersey"s employee volunteering programme.
    Funding Agency
    Government of Jersey

Recognition

  • Best Paper Award in Management Education and Development at the Academy of Management 2021
  • Academy of Management Present
  • I have reviewed for journals, such as Human Relations (CABS 4 and FT50), Human Resource Management (CABS 4 and FT50), Journal of Vocational Behavior (CABS 4), and the International Journal of Human Resource Management (CABS 3). I also participate as a reviewer annually for the Academy of Management Conference (AOM) for both the Human Resource (HR) and Organizational Behavior (OB) Division. This enables me to contribute to the management scholarly community through aiding the peer-review process and ensuring that academic rigor is upheld.