Mental health of emergency services personnel and HRM: preliminary findings

Centre for Work Organisation and Wellbeing
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The results of a survey conducted by researchers at theCentre for Work, Organisation and Wellbeingwith 272 Australian paramedics has revealed the invaluable role of family, friends and work supervisors’ support as they go about their job. With three years’ funding from theAustralia Research Council Linkage program(LP160100004) and industry partnersUnited Voice(QLD and NT branches) and theAmbulance […]

Study finds hospital accreditation helps improve human resource management systems

Centre for Work Organisation and Wellbeing
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A team of Centre for Work, Organisation and Wellbeing (WOW) researchers, in conjunction with a member ofAustralian Institute of Health Innovation at Macquarie University (Associate Professor David Greenfield),has recently published a paper in theInternational Journal for Quality in Health Carefocusing on the role of accreditation bodies in influencing human resource management (HRM) performance outcomes in […]

‘We are very focussed on the muffins’: product trumps employment matters in franchises

Centre for Work Organisation and Wellbeing
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A 2012 report from The Franchise Council of Australia highlights around 700 000 people to be employed by franchises nationally. Interestingly though, only one third of franchisors employed human resources (HR) or industrial relations (IR) professionals, or provided access to such advice for franchisees; nor did they conduct internal audits into how franchisees executed employment […]

Hospital accreditation and HRM: a likely pair?

Centre for Work Organisation and Wellbeing
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In 2013, the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) reported more than one quarter of a million full-time equivalent persons to be employed in Australia’s public hospitals. As the most resource-intensive element of the healthcare system (with about 62 per cent of recurrent expenditure), the sector is under constant pressure to implement organisational change […]