Tagged with Human Resource Management

Study finds hospital accreditation helps improve human resource management systems

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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 […]

Indian multinationals and their human resource strategies

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WOW researchers Associate Professor Mohan Thite,Professor Adrian Wilkinson, and Aston University (UK) colleague, Professor Pawan Budhwar, received the 3rd National Human Resources Development (NHRD) – Titan HR Showcase ‘ImpactfulHR[human resource] Research Award’ on the 20th September, 2014, in Bangalore, India. With funding from the Society for Human Resource Management, the team developed and applied a […]

Hospital accreditation and HRM: a likely pair?

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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 […]

Five minutes with…Michael Barry

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With a long standing agenda around the evolution of employer coordination in Australia, conducting research and managing a team of staff as the Head of the Department of Employment Relations and Human Resources is for WOW’s Associate Professor Michael Barry, often a tightrope balancing act. Having focussed on building the academic literature around the aforementioned […]

Converging Human Resource Management practices: global trends

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In analysing the results of three sets of surveys conducted over a ten year period (1999-2009) from nine countries, a team of researchers from the International Human Resource Management (HRM) Project at Penn State University in the US are seeking to find out whether HR practices are following the trend of modern western societies as […]