Tagged with work

Workplace leaders: lose gender, target behaviour

Centre for Work Organisation and Wellbeing
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How does a job become gendered? And what are the fundamental differences created by workers, organisations, governments and various other stakeholders when that happens? The Centre for Work, Organisation and Wellbeing’s Adjunct Associate Professor Yvonne Due Billing (University of Copenhagen) posed these questions, and others, on gendered expectations in the workplace, and in particular, for […]

Managing our ‘human resources’ at work: Where’s the wellbeing?

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The obsession of human resource management (HRM) research to link with performance over the last thirty years, is yet to prove that such an association makes a big influence. HRM strategies that ask what an organisation can get out of workers is also stalling, and is more likely to backfire in the contemporary (Western) employment […]

Industrial relations and ‘citizenship’: a new paradigm

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New frontiers around ‘citizenship at work’ and how multilevel-governance institutions can be designed to maximise value, was the topic of a 15th April seminar delivered by Centre for Work, Organisation and Wellbeing (WOW) guest, and Canadian Research Chair on Globalisation and Work (University of Montréal),Professor Gregor Murray. So what is ‘citizenship at work’? “‘Citizenship at […]

Shift, drive, fly: work and wellbeing in regional coal mining communities

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What is shaping up to be the largest longitudinal study of shift work and its impact on social, physical, psychological, and community wellbeing is well under way. The Australian Research Council Linkage project, co-funded by the Mining and Energy division of theConstruction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU), has seen data collected from over 2 […]

Broadening the international base of workplace research

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TheCentre for Work, Organisation and Wellbeing (WOW) has finalised an agreement with the University of Sheffield as both seek to advance research in the fields of employment relations and organisational behaviour. Facilitated by WOW Director, Professor Adrian Wilkinson, the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) will afford both institutions the opportunity to exchange students, academic members of […]