Five minutes with…Kate Shacklock

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Associate Professor Kate Shacklock is a passionate teacher whose research encompasses the human resource management aspects of worker retention. We spent five minutes with Kate to learn a little more about her work… In what area/s does your current research interests lie? My overriding field of research is HRM [human resource management], and within that, […]

Women in leadership at the G20: round up

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Forty-plus degree temperatures could not keep delegates–including Centre members Kate Shacklock, Georgina Murray, Elliroma Gardiner, and Higher Degrees Research (HDR) students Jessica Blomfield (pictured right), Mahan Poorhosseinzadeh and Vishal Rana–away from the G20 International Dialogue on Women in Leadership held at South Bank, Brisbane on the 16-17 November, 2014. With welcomes from Professor Ian O’Connor, […]

Job readiness and careers: what Business graduates and near-graduates bring to the table

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Situated for the duration in a trajectory that scaled the corporate ladder within a sole organisation, the ‘career’ of yesteryear has been reworked. Termed the ‘new career’, paths of employment have since the 1990s been understood through a range of descriptors that reflect the contexts and strategies in which they play out: there’s the self-managing […]

Employees’ intentions to stay and leave: not all about pay in aged care sector

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Based upon the significance and contribution of her PhD thesis to the field and in meeting the exact requirements to beawarded a PhD, recently conferred Centre for Work, Organisation and Wellbeing (WOW) Higher Degree Research member, Dr Katrina Radford,was awarded ‘Academic Excellence’ for exemplary performance following the unanimous opinion of her thesis examiners. We spent […]

The impact of an employee’s generation on nurse retention

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The impact of generation on the intentions of nurses to continue working was the topic of a 15 October seminar delivered by Centre for Work, Organisation and Wellbeing (WOW) researcher, Associate Professor Kate Shacklock. Speaking about research she has undertaken in the overall area of generations , Katefocused on one study that particularly examined 900 […]

Should I stay or should I go?: working in Australia’s aged care industry

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WOW-affiliated student member, Katrina Radford was awarded first prize ($500) by a judging panel of three Griffith Business School academic staff (including GBS HDR Director and WOW member, Professor Kate Hutchings), from a pool of 27 entries in the 2012 GBS Poster Competition in September. Four additional WOW-affiliated student members entered the Competition, which is […]