The chaebol, family-controlled conglomerates, which now dominate the South Korean economy constitute a unique type of business enterprise in the development worldwide of capitalist economies. With the support of a developmentalist state, the chaebol played a central role in rapid...

The relationaship between organisations' value system and their human resource management (HRM) system is investigated surveying human resource managers in 443 Australian organisations. Organisations were grouped into four main value types - Elite, Leadership, Meritocratic and Collegial,...

The following discussion presents an alternate strategy for evaluating how F.W. Taylor's managerial innovations affected Australian workers during the second decade of teh twentieth century. This is no straightforward task. In the first place, there is little agreement about the nature, degree...

In the mid 1990s Australian employers operate in an environment marked by rapid change and uncertainty. The last decade has witnessed significant changes in global market conditions, government regulatory policies, production processes/work systems and increased environmental concerns. In this...

The study replicates an Australian configuration study using organisations in New Zealand. The Survey of Organisational Values (SOV) was used to categorise organisations into one of four value types (Elite, Meritocratic, Collegial and Leadership). The Human Resources Practices Survey (HRPS) was...

The focus of this research and the central thrust of this paper is to determine how significant the internal labour market construct is for analysing the human resource pratices and policies in organisations.

Industrial nursing has been rendered invisible in general histories of nursing and in historical treatments of occupational health and safety. This paper presents a preliminary effprt to rectify this historical ommission by restoring industrial nurses to their righful place on the front-lines of...

This paper explores employee responses to the performace-based pay schemes introduced into the Australian Public service in 1998 and 1999.

The paper provides a critical analysis of the operation of performance-based pay in the Australian Public Service (APS) from 1992 to 1996 and questions the desire by the Federal Coalition Government for 'further experimentation' with such managerial incentives. The paper argues that the...

Cultural change in the guise of quality customer service was promoted in the NSW public sector by former Premiers Greiner and Fahey. This paper explores the impact of a management strategy of cultural change and TQM teams within one public sector agency - Buildcorp - of the former NSW Department...