The claim that the values espoused by senior managers are important for explaining the way actions are organised inside organisations has been made by a number of organisational psychological reserachers. However, empirical reserach committed to investigating such a proposition has to date been...

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...

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...

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...

This paper sets out to examine the extent to which the cross-cultural management (CCM) literature acknowledges the effects of national culture on differentially shaping subordinate perceptions of what constitutes "good" or "effective" management.

Scientific management has traditionally been closely associated with time and motion studies, payment incentives schemes and industrial efficiency. The following discussion reconsiders this portrayal by arguing that the combined effect of F.W. Taylor's philosophy, principles and methods made his...