Brian Bemmels

Brian Bemmels is a Retired Faculty member at The University of British Columbia, Sauder School of Business, within the Organizational Behaviour and Human Resources Division. His research focuses on grievance procedures, including decision-making in grievance processes, and the roles of management, union representatives, and employees in grievance processing and arbitration. He has contributed to several publications in journals such as Human Relations and the Journal of Management in Medicine. His work explores the dynamics of organizational justice and labor relations.

Brian Bemmels is a Professor Emeritus at the University of British Columbia, specializing in Human Resources and Labour Relations. His research focuses on grievance procedures, gender effects in arbitration, and the impact of unionization on workplace dynamics. Bemmels has extensively studied how arbitrators' decisions are influenced by grievants' gender and arbitrator characteristics. His work also explores the roles of supervisors, employees, and stewards in grievance initiation, as well as the determinants of grievance initiation. Additionally, he has examined the influence of policy on perceptions of organizational justice and the effects of union leadership satisfaction with grievance procedures.