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...