Overloaded and underloaded: How Australian academics spend their week

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A 2011 survey of 8737 Australian academic staff and the alignment and differences between their expected and actual workloads, was the subject of a Centre for Work, Organisation and Wellbeing seminar delivered by Professor David Peetz on Tuesday (5 April). The duties of academics are traditionally made up of teaching, research, and service to their […]

Esteemed acknowledgement of contribution to employment relations research

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The contribution of WOW’s Associate Professor Keith Townsend to the field of labour and employment relations (ER) research was acknowledged recently through his award as second runner up of the International Labor and Employment Relations Associations’ (ILERA) Luis Aparicio Prize. “As most of my research is conducted…in the [human resource management] HRM territory, I feel […]

Australia’s future workforce: Young workers as industrial citizens

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The Centre for Work, Organisation and Wellbeing will partner with the Griffith Business School’s Alumni portfolio next month (21 August), as an expert panel of industrial relations (IR) and human resource (HR) researchers and practitioners discuss over breakfast the make-up of Australia’s future workforce and its wellbeing. Contributing to the panel is WOW’s Associate Professor […]

Job readiness and careers: what Business graduates and near-graduates bring to the table

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Situated for the duration in a trajectory that scaled the corporate ladder within a sole organisation, the ‘career’ of yesteryear has been reworked. Termed the ‘new career’, paths of employment have since the 1990s been understood through a range of descriptors that reflect the contexts and strategies in which they play out: there’s the self-managing […]

Employment challenges: the role of gender, ethnicity and migrant status

Sue Ressia
Centre for Work Organisation and Wellbeing
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Prompted by ongoing media coverage around the treatment of migrant workers on 457 visas, (recently submitted) PhD candidate and WOW-affiliated Higher Degree Research student member, Sue Ressia, saw an opportunity to find out about, and add to, the body of research dealing with vulnerable workers and the issues they face when seeking out employment in […]

Redistributing economic and social power: what the IR, HR research says

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Members of the Centre for Work, Orgnaisation and Wellbeing (WOW) travelled to Melbourne in early February for three days of collaboration and presentations at the 28th Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand (AIRAANZ) conference. Focusing this year on ‘Work, employment and human resources: the redistribution of economic and social power?’, six […]