Tracks
The conference program is designed to appeal to researchers in human resource management, industrial and employee relations, organisational
behaviour, and general
management. The conference will include five tracks, to enable focused discussion on
areas of shared interest and research activity:
If you are unsure whether your research fits with the conference tracks, please e-mail
acrew@buseco.monash.edu.au
CONFERENCE CO-CHAIRS:
Helen De Cieri, Helen.Decieri@buseco.monash.edu.au
David Guest, David.Guest@kcl.ac.uk
HRM,
PERFORMANCE AND WORKER WELL-BEING
Track Chairs:
Helen De Cieri, Helen.Decieri@buseco.monash.edu.au
David Guest, David.Guest@kcl.ac.uk
The relationships between human resource management practices, individual and firm performance have received considerable attention from researchers and practitioners, yet numerous questions remain to be addressed, particularly with regard to the well-being of workers. In what ways do new types of employment, contracts and compensation, new ways of organising work, new forms of negotiation, and new institutional arrangements affect workers? What will be the relationships between management and labour in the future? Are various human resource management practices ethical? What roles do HR professionals play with regard to the well-being of workers? This conference stream welcomes submissions exploring relationships between HRM, performance and workers’ well-being, via investigation of a range of factors that influence employees’ work and personal lives.
MANAGING WORK-LIFE BALANCE
Track Chairs:
Anne Bardoel, Anne.Bardoel@buseco.monash.edu.au
Jane Sturges, Jane.Sturges@kcl.ac.uk
The difficulties of balancing work, family and personal life are experienced all over the world and there is value in comparing how various countries’ values, policies and programs address work/life issues. This conference stream welcomes submissions exploring effective management of work/life issues via investigation of a range of factors that influence employees’ work and personal lives. Issues that might be addressed include flexible work policies and practices, the availability and affordability of dependent care, and the impact of work overload and long working hours.
EMPLOYMENT AND MANAGEMENT IN CALL CENTRES AND SERVICE WORK
Track Chairs:
Al Rainnie, Al.Rainnie@buseco.monash.edu.au
Martin Edwards, Martin.R.Edwards@kcl.ac.uk
Virginia Doellgast, virginia.doellgast@kcl.ac.uk
Call Centres have been a high profile and controversial source of hundreds of thousands of jobs across the world in recent years. The debate on quantity, quality and location of call centre employment has become ever more sophisticated as the centres themselves evolve and become more diverse. We would welcome papers that reflect this sophisticated and diverse approach. Issues that might be addressed include: - Are all call centres going to India? - Changing patterns of HRM in India and beyond - Effect of interactive voice response, email internet and voice - Recognition technologies - Union organising in call centres
EMPLOYMENT AND EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS IN SMALL WORKPLACES
Track Chairs:
Rowena Barrett, Rowena.Barrett@buseco.monash.edu.au
Small business plays an important role in terms of work and employment. However few employment related studies of small business go beyond the question of ‘what’ (‘what are the characteristics of the jobs?’ or ‘what are the characteristics of the small business employers and/or employees?’) to ask ‘why’ (‘why do small business employers create the jobs they do?’, or ‘why do people choose to work in small businesses?’). Researching the ‘why’ is important for structuring and managing the employment relationship within and beyond the firm in terms of quality of life and sustainable work.
PARTNERSHIP OR COMMUNITY/SOCIAL MOVEMENT UNIONISM? WHERE NOW FOR TRADE UNIONS?
Track Chairs:
Donna Buttigieg, Donna.Buttigieg@buseco.monash.edu.au
Riccardo Peccei, Riccardo.Peccei@kcl.ac.uk
A sustained period of union decline across industrialised countries has led to a crisis in union organization. The question of how unions should respond to this crisis has generated considerable debate. Most of the literature proposes union response narrowly into a choice of partnership or organising. In this stream we seek to open up this debate to a discussion of a wider range of potential responses and strategies such as renewal associated with community and social movement unionism. We invite papers that address these competing strategies and explore their implications for the future of trade unions.
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