Workplace partnership, collaboration and mutual gains

Centre for Work Organisation and Wellbeing
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An Australian Research Council Linkage Project team who, with Queensland government partner agency, the Department of Employment and Industrial Relations (now the Department of Education, Training and Employment), have spent the past five years investigating the internal dynamics of collaborative union and non-union relationships with managers in Australian workplaces, hosted a day-long symposium on 10 […]

Big thinking professor on HR hitlist

Centre for Work Organisation and Wellbeing
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Griffith University Professor of Employment Relations Adrian Wilkinson has been named on a prestigious shortlist of international HR Thinkers (first published, August 6, 2012) HR Most Influential 2012 has unveiled the names of the top 20 global thinkers challenging assumptions and practice in the field of human resources, with Professor Wilkinson the only Australian academic […]

Professor named Fellow of Royal Society of Arts

Centre for Work Organisation and Wellbeing
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Griffith University’s Professor Adrian Wilkinson has become a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (first published, June 22, 2012). The RSA (Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce) was founded in 1754, and has a wealth of notable achievements and Fellows in its 250-year history. It is an enlightenment organisation committed […]

Professor makes HR Practitioner Hot List

Adrian Wilkinson
Centre for Work Organisation and Wellbeing
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Griffith Business School’s Professor Adrian Wilkinson continues to garner attention for his expertise in the fields of employment relations and human resources. The latest accolade comes from HC Magazine who have recognised Adrian in their seventh annual Hot List – a showcase of Australia’s “best and brightest” in HR. Adrian came to the attention of […]

Is enterprise bargaining still a better way of working?

Negotiation
Centre for Work Organisation and Wellbeing
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In 1989, the Business Council of Australia produced a blueprint for change entitled ‘Enterprise Based Bargaining Units: a Better Way of Working’. To a great extent, this document and the corresponding shifts in business, government and union approaches to wage and conditions determination meant Australia shifted from a centralised to a workplace system of bargaining. […]

Where lies the innovation in employment relations?

Centre for Work Organisation and Wellbeing
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Small, fast-growing firms are often considered incubators of innovation–but are they incubators of innovation in employment relations?That’s one of the questions driving a major Australian Research Council Discovery project underway across Australia.The project, headed by three WOW members, Professor David Peetz, Professor Adrian Wilkinson, and Senior Research Fellow Dr Keith Townsend, has used a mixed […]

Professor becomes Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts

Adrian Wilkinson
Department of Employment Relations and Human Resources
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Griffith University’s Professor Adrian Wilkinson has become a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Being an RSA Fellow depends on having made a contribution to society in a cultural or arts-related sphere. The RSA states that, Fellows attach the letters FRSA after their name. The RSA (Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures […]