Tagged with Rebecca Loudoun

Associate Professor Ashlea Troth has always been interested in people. She likes to know what makes them tick!! We spend a lot of time in the workplace, she says, and how one thinks and feels at, and about work, has a huge impact. So we spent five minutes with Ashlea to learn a little more […]

Opportunities and challenges in the industrial relations sector were discussed at a meeting between Griffith Business School experts and the Shadow Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations, Brendan O’Connor. Mr O’Connor said Labor was exploring ways to “remedy current industrial relations laws” by talking to employers and unions. “It’s important we also have conversations with […]

It has been less than a month since the Fair Work Commission’s (FWC) decision to cut Sunday and public holiday penalty rates for hospitality, retail, and fast food employees, and the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) along with the federal Labor party are still fighting against the ruling. In a case that dragged on […]

An undergraduate degree focusing on industrial relations (IR), public policy and politics, coupled with previous management and [IR] practitioner experience combined to reveal for Associate Professor Keith Townsend, just how complicated working life can be. Spending his life talking to others about their workplace complications has set him on a path; and the destination is […]

The health of a workplace is considered through many a lens: its operations, procedures, infrastructure, equipment and people (to name a few). In the broader sense, Dr Rebecca Loudoun’s research looks at how these aspects are managed. We spent five minutes with Rebecca to learn a little more… In what area/s does your current research […]

Front line managers (FLMs). They’re the first tier of person in a workplace with supervisory responsibilities (and the ones who usually show up when you want to “…speak to the manager please”!). A team of researchers from the Department of Employment Relations and Human Resources and the Centre for Work, Organisation and Wellbeing (WOW), were […]

Workers largely unaware of risk factors for chronic disease