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ItemLeading from the Frontline: Developing Leader Identity and Leadership Self-Efficacy among Frontline Managers.(Centre for Workplace Leadership, The University of Melbourne, 2016)Frontline managers are responsible for the supervision of non-managerial employees and overseeing day-to-day operations in general. They are often directly involved in employee recruitment, training, and performance management and are critical to implementing practices and innovations that enhance productivity (Ahmed, Shields, White, & Wilbert, 2010; Brewer, 2005; Kraut, Pedigo, McKenna, & Dunnette, 1989; Purcell & Hutchinson, 2007; Risher, 2010). Frontline managers in the service industry are no exception, and should receive more attention as the service industry expands. We therefore designed a research study based in a large organisation in the food service industry. Through this study, we sought to understand what factors relate to the important concepts of leader identity and leadership self-efficacy at the frontline. We first provide some background on these concepts, as well as a number of potential determinants. We then describe the methodology of our study, followed by the findings and their implications.
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ItemDeveloping Leaders in Business Schools: A Case Report on First Year Student Leaders(Centre for Workplace Leadership, The University of Melbourne, 2016)Developing leadership capabilities in young people comes with the territory of being in a business school. The Faculty of Business and Economics at The University of Melbourne offers a First Year Leaders Forum on a voluntary basis to all students. Centre for Workplace Leadership researchers surveyed two groups of first year students – those who took part in the Forum, and those that chose not to. The survey was administered immediately before the Forum and repeated six months later. Testing for four leadership competencies and two leadership attributes, they established that the intervention in the form of the Forum, improved first year students motivation to lead. Further they found that those who joined student groups or associations, volunteered or had served internships demonstrated higher levels of motivation to lead. The study showed that even small interventions can develop leadership attributes and as a result increase the levels of motivation to lead.
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ItemPerson, environment, and virtual work adoption: Back to basics( 2015-12-03)Paper presented at Australia and New Zealand Academy of Management (ANZAM)
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ItemWorkplace health and safety – What role for the business case?( 2015-12-04)Paper presented at the Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management (ANZAM).
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ItemWorkplace Leadership: A Review of Prior Research(Centre for Workplace Leadership, 2014-07-01)Almost twenty years ago, the last major review of management capability in Australian organisations, the Karpin Report, was released. Titled, Enterprising Nation, it focused on the question of whether Australian management could meet the challenges of the Asian Century. The report demonstrated the case for renewal—new skills and capabilities that would enable Australian industry to make the most of Asia's growth.
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ItemThe Evolution of Labor Law in Three Asian Nations: An Introductory Comparative Study(University of Illinois College of Law and International Society for Labour Law and Social Security, 2014)The purpose of this Article is to contribute to provide a historical account of the evolution of labor law in three countries: India, Indonesia, and China.' Our founding question is how do we understand, or how do we explain, the evolution of labor law in these countries, and what does this understanding add to the present discourse? In particular, what do our studies tell us about the prominent issue of "legal origins" (i.e., the extent to which the labor market systems in India, Indonesia, and China have been characterized by the regulatory style of the systems from which their labor laws were initially drawn); and the extent to which the labor law systems of those countries been shaped under the influence of international pressures?
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ItemThe Evolution of Labour Law in India: An Overview and Commentary on Regulatory Objectives and Development(Cambridge University Press, 2014-11-01)Generally speaking there has been a relative dearth of serious scholarship focusing on the evolution of Indian labour law in its economic, social, and political contexts. Such work as there is tends to be constituted of fragmented and short journal articles and notes, including those by labour economists and industrial relations scholars. The present work undertakes a survey of the literature in the field, examining first the various periods through which Indian labour law has evolved up to the present time, and second the extent to which the labour law system can be seen to have fulfilled its two core objectives: the protection of labour and the maintenance of industrial peace. The survey reveals that Indian “labour law” in the formal sense has very little purchase in terms of its application in pursuit of its objects. This, in turn, suggests that some other approach is required to reach a more grounded and accurate understanding of how, and to what effect, labour is regulated in India.
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ItemWorker and Shareholder Protection in Six Countries: A Longitudinal Analysis(LexisNexis, 2014)In this article the authors utilise leximetric analysis, which involves the numerical coding of the strength of formal legal protections, to document changes in the level of worker protection and shareholder protection in six countries (Australia, France, Germany, India, the United Kingdom and the United States) for the period 1970-2005. Both worker and shareholder protection increased in five of the six countries and in the sixth country (Australia) shareholder protection increased and the level of worker protection in 2005 was similar to the level of protection in 1970. The results of statistical tests show that increased formal legal protection for shareholders is not obtained at the expense of formal protection for workers. Implications of this finding are explored by the authors.