John Benson is the Head of the School of Business, Monash University Malaysia. Professor Benson is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia and a Senior Associate of St Antony's College at Oxford University. He has held visiting professorships at Oxford University and the London School of Economics in the United Kingdom; University College Dublin, Ireland; Université Jean Moulin, Lyon 3 in France; and Osaka and Hiroshima national universities in Japan. John has been a frequent consultant to government, business and trade unions in Australia, Japan and Europe. John has published ten books and over one hundred and twenty academic journal articles and book chapters. His research has focused on employment relations, Japanese management, economic transformation in China, outsourcing and employee voice.