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...

The context of the paper is the relationship between the roles of government as an employer, as a prime generator of polivy and as financial controller. The overaching issue is the extent it is possible to match public sector industrial relations with the general policy directions of government...

Community, locality, and personal identity are increasingly being recognised as important for the study of labour history. This is not to guggest that communities and localities were previously ignored. On the contrary, numerous studies of coal mining and steel making industries acknowledged the...

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.

The paper argues that the adoption of more flexible labour policies has been a major feature of work and employment restructuring in the 1980s and 1990s. We argue that there are three main dimensions of labour utilisation: work intensification; job broadening and employment insecurity. These...

The Asutralian esperience of corporatism challenges the view that curtailing trade union influence is an essential component of successful industrial adjustment , and that trade union influence has been preserved or enhanced. This paper rejects both propositions.