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In March 2002 Ansett Australia, the country's second largest airline, collapsed after 66 years of operation. Ansert … significant anguish of Ansett's now ex-employees: 'they emerged from departure gate lounge 11, some were crying, some locked arms …
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This study examines long term changes in the industrial and workforce structure of the Australian construction industry and their effect on the capacity of the industry to invest in training. The study finds that restructuring has raised the barriers to employer investment in vocational training...
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employers. These reforms were instigated by a perceived change in Australia?s international competitiveness and an overall lack …
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Since the 1970s Australia has been one of the few countries that has progressively advanced the concept of gender pay … created by industrial tribunals have been able to improve the pay of women workers, due to their coverage of the workforce of … increases in award-based wages for certain industries dominated by women workers. However, the capacity of state tribunals to …
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Remuneration for Men and Women Workers for Work of Equal Value meant that in theory at least the concept of equal pay for work of … equal value applied throughout Australia when award wage rates were decided by industrial tribunals. Nevertheless, the … Australia can be seen by the proportion of female full-time 'ordinary time earnings', that is earnings that exclude overtime …
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examining its impact on firm performance and the role of employees in the implementation of this strategy; or (ii) studying the …
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examining its impact on firm performance and the role of employees in the implementation of this strategy; or (ii) studying the … relevance to managers and employees within SMEs. The paper concludes by detailing a future research agenda and stressing the …
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in-depth interviews were conducted on fifty-four software firms in Australia and the findings discussed. …
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This paper develops a conceptual framework to examine the factors impacting on the adoption of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) and its impact on retail supply chain performance. RFID has been applied successfully in closed systems for some time. However, recent technology improvements and...
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As small films have limited resources, they cannot out-muscle larger competitors, so they have to do something different - be innovative and leverage know-how and collaborate with others to increase the scale and scope of what they can offer to be globally competitive. This paper describes an...
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