the built environment. The planned successor to this CRC – the Sustainable Built Environment Centre will further progress environmental sustainability for the built environment as the Centre’s future is confirmed in early 2009. We would like to thank the Senate Committee for the opportunity...

Employee participation (EP) is an important area of research in the industrial relations field (Heller, Pusic, Strauss and Wilpert 1998; Markey, Gollan, Hodgkinson, Chouragui and Veersma 2001; Harley, Hyman and Thompson 2005) The literature discusses two different forms of EP: direct and indirect...

This paper investigates the changing pattern of seasonal influences on quarterlyAustralian data on aggregate working days lost due to industrial disputes perthousand employees for the period 1983:1 to 2004:3. The analysis suggests thepresence of (a) a structural break in tne stationarity...

In the tournament games only the winner can advance to the next roundsof competition. The important feature of tournament is that the reward isbased on the rank order among competitors rather than absolute level oftheir performances. This type of reward system can be widely found incompetition...