Recently added articles from International Journal of Employment Studies:
Editor's note.
Oct 01, 2008; ... This is the second of the 2008 IJES issues and the last in my role as interim Managing Editor. From the April 2009 issue, Professor Stephen Teo will be taking up the role. The IJES editorial process in future will be much better organised under the control of the International Employment ...
Child labour in India: magnitude, trends and distribution: evidence from the 55th and 61st NSS0 rounds.
Oct 01, 2008; ... Introduction Child labour is a major problem in India as well as in the world. At the time when the children should be enjoying their childhood days, they can be seen sweating in the factories and agricultural fields earning a meager sum to support their poverty-stricken ...
Employee-friendly and employer-friendly non-standard work schedules and locations.
Oct 01, 2008; ... Introduction One feature of today's workplaces is the prevalence of non-standard work arrangements (NSWAs). From a worker perceptive, the negative implications of NSWAs are well-documented (e.g. Cranford, Vosko, and Zukewich, 2003; Rau and Hyland, 2002; Zeytinoglu and Cooke, ...
High and low road approaches to the management of human resources: an examination of the relationship between business strategy, human resource management and high performance work practices.
Oct 01, 2008; ... Introduction The Human Capital approach to Human Resource Management proposes that, unlike traditional sources of competitive advantage, a quality, motivated workforce is a source of competitive advantage that is difficult for competitors to replicate (Luthans and Sommer, 2005) ....
Strategic orientation of the public sector union in Singapore.
Oct 01, 2008; ... Selective Review of Literature on Labour Relations in the Public Sector Membership of public sector unions worldwide has been falling due to the trend of downsizing of governments worldwide (see for example, Hurd and Pinnock (2004)). The European Foundation for the improvement ...
The impact of the Workchoices unfair dismissal exemption for small businesses on job creation: a study in the Richmond-Tweed region of new South Wales.
Oct 01, 2008; ... Introduction In the Australian federal parliament, the Liberal-National Coalition government had long sought changes to industrial relations laws that had been introduced by the Labor Party when they were previously in government in the 1990s. One policy plank was exemption ...
Lagged harm of work restructuring and work alienation to work commitment.
Oct 01, 2008; ... Given that alienation in the workplace is debilitating and detrimental to the worker's performance (Gallie et al. 1998; Jex 1998), it is tempting to examine if restructuring in the workplace creates similarly adverse impacts. This examination is in response to the controversy about the ...
Introduction.
Apr 01, 2008; ... This issue of the International Journal of Employment Relations is the first since ownership was transferred from the University of Western Sydney's GROWES research group to the International Employment Relations Association (IERA). The journal had already become the publication of the ...
Pakistan's commitment to equal employment opportunity for women: a toothless tiger?(Report)
Apr 01, 2008; ... INTRODUCTION It is now well established that women experience disadvantage and unequal employment opportunities and outcomes in many developed and developing countries (World Bank, 2001). In this regard, Pakistan is no exception. Women in Pakistan remain subject to a broad range ...
Job quality: what does it mean, what does it matter? Comparisons between Australia and the UAE.(Report)
Apr 01, 2008; ... INTRODUCTION HRM and the recognition of employees as assets emphasises the organisational importance of tracking job quality and developing programs to improve it. At the reporting level, organisations can develop quality enhancing programs so as to be recognised as an employer ...
The Chinese labour litigation system and its role in settling labour disputes.(Report)
Apr 01, 2008; ... INTRODUCTION Labour litigation is the last recourse for resolving labour disputes in China. Legal action becomes extremely important for maintaining justice in China's employment relations because they are becoming increasingly complicated and the influence of the political and ...
Australian Charter of Employment Rights.(Book review)
Apr 01, 2008; ... AUSTRALIAN CHARTER OF EMPLOYMENT RIGHTS Edited by Mordy Bromberg SC & Mark Irving, with a Forward by Bob Hawke, Australian Institute of Employment Rights Hardie Grant Books, Prahran, Victoria, 2007, 158 pages, ISBN 9781740665360. This book could be ...
Editor's note.
Oct 01, 2007; ... This is my final edition of the International Journal of Employment Studies as Managing Editor. After 15 years as joint Editor and then Managing Editor of the journal, it is time to let a new Editor take on the role, to allow me more time to devote to my own research. I would ...
Older male workers and job mobility in Australia.(Report)
Oct 01, 2007; ... Extending the working life of older workers, defined in this study as between 55 and 64 years of age, is an important policy goal in Australian and overseas in the context of an ageing society. However, current research on older workers' job mobility is scant, except for the established ...
The impact of a voluntary retirement scheme on Indian public sector banks and its existing employees: an empirical analysis.(Report)
Oct 01, 2007; ... The objectives of the banking reforms in India suggested by Narasimham Committee II were to keep banks financially sound while encouraging more competition and reducing government ownership of state banks. Among many management and structural issues, it also suggested that a voluntary ...
Temporary agency work and the blurring of the traditional employment relationship in multi-party arrangements--the case of Germany and the United States.
Oct 01, 2007; ... A variety of pressures to improve competitiveness has fostered the deployment of atypical employment relationships. These new types of work arrangements have an impact on the nature and shape of the employment relationship. Above all the use of agency work has increased in the last few ...
University students in USA and Australia: anticipation and reflection on the transition to work.(Case study)
Oct 01, 2007; ... This article discusses two different views of the transition to the professional workplace from university, one based in the United States and the other in Australia. The US case examines upper-division undergraduate and postgraduate student perceptions related to their participation in a ...
Does labour activity matter more than labour productivity: an exploratory study of perceived employee superfluity.(Report)
Oct 01, 2007; ... Based on two dimensions, contribution to labour productivity and perceived labour activity, we identify three types of perceived employee superfluity in organisations: pseudo-surplus, concealed and noticeable surplus employees. By using managerial assessment of the prevalence of surplus ...
Human resource management: transforming theory into innovative practice.(Book review)
Oct 01, 2007; ... HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT: TRANSFORMING THEORY INTO INNOVATIVE PRACTICE Charmine Hartel, Yuka Fujimoto, Victoria E. Strybosch and Karen Fitzpatrick Pearson Education Australia (2007) The increasing significance of people to organisational success has corresponded ...
Work choices: what the high court said.(Book review)
Oct 01, 2007; ... WORK CHOICES: WHAT THE HIGH COURT SAID Stewart, A. & Williams G. The Federation Press: Sydney, 2007,190 pages, ISBN. 978 186287 642 2 This book seeks to outline the key elements underpinning the High Court's decision regarding the constitutional validity of the ...