Best Paper Award - Human Resources, 2006 International CHRIE (Council on Hotel, Restaurant and Institutional Education) Conference, Arlington, Virginia, USA
Best Paper Award - Human Resources, 2000 International CHRIE (Council on Hotel, Restaurant and Institutional Education) Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
1999 Academic of the Year Award, Griffith University Gold Coast Student Guild Association
Certificate of Commendation, awarded with Honourable Mention, for the 1999 Beginning Teacher Award in the Griffith Awards for Excellence in Teaching, Griffith University
Finalist for Careers Division Best Paper, 1996 Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Academy of Management Entrepreneurship Doctoral Consortium, 1995
Cornell University, School of Hotel Administration, Doctoral Fellowship, 1991-1994