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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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Item(What) do unions maximise? Evidence from survey data(OXFORD UNIV PRESS, 2002-05-01)
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ItemThe Evolution of Labour Law in Australia: Measuring the Change(LexisNexis, 2010)
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ItemThe Relationship Between Individuals' Recognition of Human Rights and Responses to Socially Responsible Companies: Evidence from Russia and Bulgaria(Springer Verlag, 2010)An emerging body of literature has highlighted a gap in our understanding of the extent to which the salience attached to human rights is likely to influence the extent to which an individual takes account of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in decision making. The primary aim of this study is to begin to address this gap by understanding how individuals attribute different emphasis on specific aspects of human rights when making decisions to purchase, work, invest or support the community operations for socially responsible organisations. In order to achieve this objective, a survey instrument was administered to professionals in Russia and Bulgaria. Our data indicate that there is a significant correlation between individuals’ sensitivity towards different components of human rights and their perceptions of the importance of CSR in decision making. Specifically, the recognition of political rights was strongly associated with the willingness to purchase, invest, seek employment and support socially responsible firms. Our analysis also outlines significant differences between the Russian and the Bulgarian samples with regard to the manners in which individuals rate the importance of civil, political and economic human rights.
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ItemThe Rise and Rise of Enterprise Bargaining in Australia, 1991-2011(Taylor & Francis Australasia, 2012)Collective bargaining and agreement-making has been an established part of Australia's arbitral model of industrial relations since its inception. Although the significance of bargaining and agreement-making has varied considerably over the course of the twentieth century and across different sectors, it nonetheless remained a secondary component of the formal system of wage determination until the 1980s. From the mid-1980s, however, new wage-fixing principles and legislative changes have paved the way for enterprise bargaining as the primary mechanism through which wages and conditions of employment have been determined, evolving towards a predominance of enterprise-level collective agreements. The aim of this paper is to describe the major institutional reforms intended to promote enterprise bargaining and to review the major trends in agreement-making over the course of the last twenty years in particular. The data show that, while enterprise-level agreement-making has become an entrenched feature of the Australian system, it is not at all clear that it has involved the spread of collective bargaining as the term is normally understood.