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ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Business and Management | Policy and Administration | Public Administration | Industrial Relations | Human Resources Management | Urban And Regional Planning | Urban and Regional Planning | Road And Rail Transportation | Small Business Management | Decision Support And Group Support Systems | Innovation And Technology Management
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Industrial relations | Management | Public services management | Civics and citizenship | Land and water management | Technological and organisational innovation | Civil | Political science and public policy | Ground transport not elsewhere classified |
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Publications
Reducing creative labour precarity: beyond network connections
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 18-05-2015
NOT JUST BRICKS AND MORTAR: EEO IN HOMESWEST
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 12-1995
Factors impacting SME business resilience post-COVID-19
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 10-11-2022
DOI: 10.3390/SU142214850
Abstract: The ability of an organization to respond to a crisis with agility is vital for business leaders to maintain business continuity. Our paper examined how business owners responded to the challenges caused by the pandemic. Using online surveys for data collection, we investigated a critical agility issue of supply chain risks through understanding the interrelationship of various business capability factors. Partial least squares path modeling (PLS-PM) was applied to a s le of 220 participants who were owners of micro, small, and medium businesses in Western Australia. The findings showed that the businesses’ efficiency, financial strength, and flexibility in sourcing affected the businesses’ supply chain risks negatively. More support for labor productivity, asset utilization, waste elimination, financial reserves, portfolio ersification, and credit access needs to be introduced to enhance the resilience of the business supply chain. This paper is novel, as we used the data collected in Western Australia, where the SMEs were still affected by the global supply chain disruption but lacked protracted lockdowns, as had occurred nationally and globally during the COVID-19 period.
Contribution of computing services to benchmarking asset management knowledge management
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2015
Evaluating equity outcomes in state public sectors: A comparison of three housing agencies
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 12-1997
The Government Service Delivery Project: A Case Study of the Push and Pull of Central Government Coordination
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 2002
Asset management policies and guidelines of different states in Australia
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 07-2014
Abstract: – The purpose of this paper is to explore and compare the asset management policies and practices of six Australian states – New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia and Tasmania – to improve understanding of the policy context to best shape policy focus and guidelines. Australian state-wide asset management policies and guidelines are an emergent policy domain, generating a substantial body of knowledge. However, these documents are spread across the layers of government and are therefore largely fragmented and lack coherency. – The comparative study is based on the thematic mapping technique using the Leximancer software. – Asset management policies and guidelines of New South Wales and Victoria have more interconnected themes as compared to other states in Australia. Moreover, based on the findings, New South Wales has covered most of the key concepts in relation to asset management the remaining five states are yet to develop a comprehensive and integrated approach to asset management policies and guidelines. – This review and its findings have provided a number of directions on which government policies can now be better constructed and assessed. In doing so, the paper contributes to a coherent way forward to satisfy national emergent and ongoing asset management challenges. This paper outlines a rigorous analytical methodology to inform specific policy changes. – This paper provides a basis for further research focused on analyzing the context and processes of asset management guidelines and policies.
An Enabling Environment for Asset Management through Public Policy: The Benefits of Standardization and Application to the Water Sector
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 09-12-2021
DOI: 10.3390/W13243524
Abstract: Water services—including urban water supply, wastewater, and stormwater services—are essential to society and critical for protecting human health and the well-being of communities. Goal 6 of the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) recognizes this importance and aims to “ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all.” Despite progress, the UN reports billions of people still lack water and sanitation services. Many governments around the world face the challenge of balancing between investment in new assets, programs, and services and providing the required funding for repair and replacement of existing water assets. This paper argues infrastructure asset management establishes a foundational framework for the system of operations, management, and importantly, governance of assets to deliver services. An enabling environment for asset management, in addition to supporting the delivery of services, also contributes to meeting public policy objectives. The research question is: How can governments utilize public policy to enable asset management and consequently achieve societal objectives. A variety of public policy instruments used to enable infrastructure asset management and support achievement of government goals and objectives, such as the UN SDGs, are outlined and analyzed. The methodology involved a survey and case studies drawn from three countries, focused on the water sector. It also presents outcomes, common elements, and the need for and benefits of standardization.
Green office buildings and sustainability: Does green human resource management elicit green behaviors?
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2021
Public Sector Contracting: An Australian Study of Changing Work Conditions
Publisher: Nomos Verlag
Date: 2005
Avoiding the burst pipeline post-COVID-19: drivers of female academic careers in Australia
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 23-09-2022
Abstract: Literature around the careers of female academics is targeted mainly toward identifying and examining career progression inhibitors, while the drivers appear largely unexplored. This paper aims to contribute to contemporary knowledge by identifying drivers to the career progression of female academics in Australia. With COVID-19 currently impacting the careers of female academics this knowledge can assist universities and human resource (HR) professionals in developing policies and practices to better facilitate female academic career progression. Empirically this paper draws on a qualitative study of 18 male and 29 female academics, as well as nine senior university stakeholders. The authors employed semi-structured interviews and a novel methodology, Draw, Write, Reflect. In line with attribution theory, senior stakeholders mainly identified organisational efforts, including leadership, gender equity endeavours, recruitment and promotion approaches, as well as a construct known as “relative to opportunity considerations”, as drivers of female academics’ career progression. Female academics, however, largely attributed their career progression to personal factors, such as family support, informal mentoring, and determination and persistence. The findings have implications for universities and HR practices seeking to facilitate female academic career progression. Implementation of the drivers identified may enhance female academics’ abilities to progress their careers. By focussing on the drivers of, rather than the barriers to, female academic careers, the research is novel in its identification of a previously unexplored mismatch between organisational attribution and in idual attribution of career progression drivers thereby advancing knowledge of gender differences in academic careers.
Co-management to solve homelessness: Wicked solutions for wicked problems
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 19-06-2013
An integrated approach to strategic asset management
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 04-12-2014
Integrated strategic asset management: Frameworks and dimensions
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 04-12-2014
Moving into management: Gender segregation and its effect on managerial attainment
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 11-2002
DOI: 10.1108/09649420210445776
Abstract: Steady progress has been achieved with implementing legislated public sector equal employment opportunities (EEO) policies and programs to fulfil the aim of increasing the representation of EEO groups in public employment. However, there remain areas of significant gender differences in the public sector labour market. One of the most persistent problems has been segregation by gender and this characteristic employment pattern can be discerned across industry, occupation, firm and type of employment contract. This research compares and contrasts the effect of gender domination on the gender composition of tiers of management and numbers in the Senior Executive Service across a state government public service in Australia. The career progression of males and females in female‐dominated and male‐dominated agencies are examined to determine whether different career outcomes can be discerned under conditions of significantly greater numbers of one gender being employed. Findings indicate that men in female‐dominated agencies have different employment profiles and career patterns to those of women in male‐dominated agencies.
Public procurement for innovation through supplier firms' sustainability lens: A systematic review and research agenda
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 24-05-2023
DOI: 10.1002/BSE.3137
Abstract: Public sector purchasing processes are gaining increasing prominence as a demand‐side innovation tool for addressing national sustainability challenges. Accordingly, there has been growing research attention to this topic. Prior studies suggest three key rationales that underlie the use of public sector procurement to drive innovation: (i) the buyer–user rationale (for creating new needs) (ii) the market/system failure rationale (for improving suppliers' capacity to innovate) and (iii) the public services rationale (for improving public services). However, operational activities at the upstream supply chain affecting the sustainable innovation capacities of supplier firms appear to be under‐researched in the public procurement for innovation (PPI) scholarship, despite knowledge about innovation capacity being critical to successfully implementing PPI. This paper adopts a systematic literature review approach to synthesise existing fragmented literature on sustainability‐oriented PPI, focusing on supplier perspectives. Findings from a synthesis of 41 relevant articles suggest, among others conditions, that a procurement framework that maintains a good balance of competition and innovation, builds buyer–supplier relationship and urges strong supply networks, maintains a stable political commitment, offers security for niche markets with effective innovation risk management culture would enhance suppliers' sustainability capacity and propensity to innovate. This paper contributes to the PPI literature and the literature on determinants of sustainable innovation systems from supplier firms' sustainability lens.
Australian Indigenous entrepreneurship: a capital-based view
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 05-2008
DOI: 10.5367/000000008784489426
Abstract: Encouraging entrepreneurship has been advocated as the most promising avenue for economic development of Indigenous communities in Australia. Unfortunately, the number of Indigenous people engaged in small businesses in Australia is low compared with participation rates in other countries. One explanation suggested for this low participation rate in small business is that Indigenous Australians lack the traits or cultural attitudes necessary for success. This paper advocates a different view, arguing instead that analysing Indigenous access to capital in its multiple forms provides for a richer explanation – and exploration – of the barriers to Indigenous entrepreneurship.
Infrastructure transitions toward sustainability: a complex adaptive systems perspective
Publisher: Inderscience Publishers
Date: 2012
New modes of service delivery in the public sector – Commercialising government services
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 06-2000
DOI: 10.1108/09513550010345955
Abstract: There is an international trend to contestability and marketisation in the delivery of public services. The underlying foundation of these trends is that competition results in improved outcomes such as greater efficiency, higher quality of service, a clearer focus on customers and better value for money. This paper examines an approach to the reform agenda that avoids the more dramatic responses of privatisation, corporatisation and large‐scale contracting out while still focusing on achieving commercial principles in public sector service delivery. Commercialisation, in this context, provides a way of developing commercial arrangements yet maintains service delivery within the public sector and offers the possibility of retaining important social objectives.
Interactions Between Organizational Culture, Trustworthiness, and Mechanisms for Inter-Project Knowledge Sharing
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 04-2014
DOI: 10.1002/PMJ.21407
Abstract: This research used a multiple-case study approach to empirically investigate the complex relationship between factors influencing inter-project knowledge sharing—trustworthiness, organizational culture, and knowledge-sharing mechanisms. Adopting a competing values framework, we found evidence of patterns existing between the type of culture, on the project management unit level, and project managers' perceptions of valuing trustworthy behaviors and the way they share knowledge, on the in idual level. We also found evidence for mutually reinforcing the effect of trust and clan culture, which shape tacit knowledge-sharing behaviors.
Safety outcomes for engineering asset management organizations: Old problem with new solutions?
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2017
Trends in emission standards and the implications for bus fleet management: Technology assessment for Brisbane Transport
Publisher: IEEE
Date: 2008
Regional small businesses' personal and inter-firm networks
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 27-04-2020
DOI: 10.1108/JBIM-09-2019-0432
Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of personal and inter-firm networks and the elements that contribute to the formation and management of these networks for regional small businesses. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 20 small business owners located in regional areas. The findings highlight key characteristics of regional small business owners’ networks. Findings indicated that participants relied strongly on their personal networks for business purposes. This study shows that while personal networks adapted and changed into informal inter-firm networks, weak-tie relations within inter-firm networks were unlikely to develop into close personal networks. Novel findings also include a preference for “regional interactions” and included regular collaboration with local business competitors. Although the participants used social media to manage their business through personal networks, results confirmed there was a lack of awareness of the benefits of inter-firm networks with businesses outside the local region. While it is acknowledged small business owners use personal and inter-firm connections to maintain and grow their business, there is a lack of research examining both of these networks in the same study. This research addresses this gap and presents five propositions as a useful direction for future research. This paper adds to the evolution of existing knowledge by expanding understanding of the formation of business networks and conditions of business trust relations within a regional context.
Safe and Sound? The Public Value Trade-Off in Worker Safety and Public Infrastructure Procurement
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-2008
Women-only Networks as a Strategy for Change? A Case Study from Local Government
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 09-2004
DOI: 10.1108/09649420410555051
Abstract: Across both the private and public sectors one strategy that has been used to support women in leadership roles and to increase women's participation in leadership positions has been to establish formal female specific networks. This paper examines the efficacy of such a strategy through a case study of one such group – the Australian Local Government Women's Association. Data for the paper are drawn from interviews with the 19 female mayors in the Australian state of Queensland. Participants were ided in their views about the organization. One group expressed support for women's networking, a second group was critical of women organizing in such a way and a third group expressed ambivalence about the value of women's networks. This paper draws on these views to assess the transformative potential of women's networks. It concludes that women‐only networks have a valuable role to play in securing greater equity for women in management.
Assessing Total Cost of Ownership: Effective Asset Management Along the Supply Chain
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 12-11-2018
Asset management stewardship: The effectiveness of public-private mix governance structures
Publisher: IEEE
Date: 2008
Engineering asset procurement: Operationalising complex adaptive system theory
Publisher: IEEE
Date: 2008
Re-Imaging the Future in Urban Studies and Built Environment Discourse: A Neurourbanism Perspective
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 23-11-2022
DOI: 10.3390/BUILDINGS12122056
Abstract: Neurological constructs are being applied in various fields within urban studies and built environments, neurourbanism stands out. To understand this concept, this study seeks to conduct a scientometric analysis of the concept of neurourbanism. To do so, we gauged the intellectual structure and clarified the influencers and emerging themes while seeking to identify essential gaps in neurourbanism research in urban studies and the built environment. Data were sorted from Dimensions Artificial Intelligence platform because of its reliability in providing the needed dataset accurately, and the Citespace software was used to analyze the data. Our results suggest plurality in explaining the risk factors in urbanicity research, particularly regarding prevalence, incidence, and the general cause of psychosis in urban living. The study also shows that players in the construction sector, such as engineers, town planners, and developers, have not fully grasped how the built environment assists in improving well-being, reducing stress levels of urbanists, assisting migrants in settling into the community, and the general mental wellness of those who live in the city. The study also identified a correlation between urbanization and mental health and added that the main recipient of rapid urban transformation countries does not show leadership in neurourbanism studies.
Policy Delphi: Contribution to Infrastructure and Engineering Asset Management Organizations
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 29-08-2014
Developing communicative competencies for a learning organization
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 03-2006
Asset management and governance - An analysis of fleet management process issues in an asset-intensive organization
Publisher: IEEE
Date: 2008
Cross-Docking: A Systematic Literature Review
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 11-06-2020
DOI: 10.3390/SU12114789
Abstract: This paper identifies the major research concepts, techniques, and models covered in the cross-docking literature. A systematic literature review is conducted using the BibExcel bibliometric analysis and Gephi network analysis tools. A research focus parallelship network (RFPN) analysis and keyword co-occurrence network (KCON) analysis are used to identify the primary research themes. The RFPN results suggest that vehicle routing, inventory control, scheduling, warehousing, and distribution are most studied. Of the optimization and simulation techniques applied in cross-docking, linear and integer programming has received much attention. The paper informs researchers interested in investigating cross-docking through an integrated perspective of the research gaps in this domain. This paper systematically reviews the literature on cross-docking, identifies the major research areas, and provides a survey of the techniques and models adopted by researchers in the areas related to cross-docking.
Towards an Integrated Maturity Model of Asset Management Capabilities
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 29-08-2014
Change management practices: Is a hybrid model a better alternative for public sector agencies?
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 06-2003
DOI: 10.1108/09513550310472311
Abstract: During the last two decades the public sector has come under increasing pressure to improve performance and demonstrate greater transparency and accountability. This pressure has resulted in public sector organisations facing shifts in ways of operating. Various corporate change strategies have been adopted by different public sector agencies, many of these cloning managerial practices from the private sector. These changes in public sector organisations have enormous significance for regional economic and social development. While there is a growing body of knowledge dealing with the management of corporate change there are still significant gaps in understanding the process. While there is much written on public versus private corporate change, there is little distinguishing between change in different types of public sector organisations. This paper analyses change management processes and seeks to determine whether a hybrid model of “new public management” delivers more favourable outcomes than a model focused on cost reduction and private sector prejudice for the bottom line.
Letting a Picture Speak a Thousand Words: Arts-based Research in a Study of the Careers of Female Academics
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 28-05-2023
Abstract: This article presents an adaptation of an arts-based research method usually reserved for child-focused research to examine organizational processes. We developed Draw, Write, Reflect (DWR), advancing a known method, Draw and Write, for investigating phenomena relating to child participants, to explore a new context: adults engaging in academic careers. This article reports on the rationale behind the novel use of this research method, outlines a DWR procedure for future research, and contains reflections of both the researchers and the respondents regarding their experiences participating in DWR. Offering participants a combination of visual and oral methods allowed the researchers to obtain data in a more in idualized approach steered by participants’ preferences. The multidimensional insights obtained through DWR would not have been attainable through each method on its own. Furthermore, we argue arts-based research can serve as a vehicle for disseminating academic work beyond conventional academe to a growing, nonacademic audience.
Developing effective local content regulations in sub-Sahara Africa: The need for more effective policy alignment
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 12-12-2016
Abstract: The authors propose a strategic-balance approach to local content laws in which less developed economies in sub-Sahara Africa can develop investment incentive policies for attracting multinationals and direct foreign investment but, at the same time, have a structured and operational framework for the enforcement of local content laws. The purpose of the paper is to identify the elements involved in the equation: the incentives, the potential spillovers and the criteria for evaluation. The approach involves a review of the literature and the operational details and limitations of local content laws in sub-Sahara Africa. The paper develops a conceptual model for a holistic understanding and management of this dilemma by policymakers and development practitioners to maximize the benefits of natural resources to less developed countries in sub-Sahara Africa towards the fight against poverty and underdevelopment. This paper provides the opportunity to influence policy direction in relation to the adoption of investment incentive policies and programs and the enforcement of local content policy guidelines and regulations in sub-Sahara Africa. Multinational companies (MNCs) operating in less developed and emerging economies in sub-Sahara Africa should consider how their economic and corporate social responsibility activities can help develop the capabilities of the local workforce through training and development activities develop domestic firms’ capabilities via enterprise development programs and develop local firm’s absorptive capacities through knowledge transfers and innovation systems to support development activities. Policymakers in less developed and emerging economies in sub-Sahara Africa need to strike a balance in adopting investment incentives policies towards attracting foreign investments and the enforcement of local content regulations to make sure they derive the maximum benefits from their strategic resources. It is important for policymakers to understand that the mere attraction of MNCs into an economy does not explicitly guarantee domestic job creation rather, it depends on how MNCs respond to local content policy regulations through their business strategies. Linking investment incentives with local content policy regulations at a critical point could potentially support and strengthen industrial development in sub-Sahara Africa. This paper is among the first to examine the challenges of both attracting foreign direct investment and enforcing local content laws and regulations in sub-Sahara Africa. This paper contributes to the understanding of this dilemma and how less developed economies can manage such a crucial and important issue using our proposed strategic-balance approach. The contribution of local content laws and the design and adoption of investment incentives policies and programs to attract foreign investment to promoting sustainable domestic growth and development must depend on the balance between the enforcement of local content policy guidelines and the provision of such investment incentive packages to attracting foreign investment.
Virtual workforces and the Shifting Frontier of Control
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 09-2005
DOI: 10.1111/J.1472-9296.2005.00171.X
Abstract: It is argued that adopting a networked organisational model improves organisational performance and provides opportunities for innovation and creativity. The model is premised on introducing a range of information and communication technology (ICT) into the work environment. ICTs establish a fundamentally different interface between workers and their tasks and also connect managers and workers in new ways that require re-conceptualising of labour management relations. This process necessitates adapting existing organisational structures and systems to account for changes in the way work is scheduled and organised and the way workers are managed. It is argued that organisations implementing such new organisational forms create non-traditional organisational boundaries and fewer bureaucratic structures through forming networks. These network arrangements may present an opportunity for shifting the labour management control nexus.
Gambling as a base for hypothecated taxation: The UK's National Lottery and Electronic Gaming Machines in Australia
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-2004
Transitions from Education to Work
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 22-11-2017
HRM practices of MNEs and domestic firms in Ghana: divergence or convergence?
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 05-02-2018
Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to adopt the convergence- ergence perspective to examine the extent of similarities and differences in human resource management practices between multinational enterprise subsidiaries and local firms in Ghana. This paper draws from multiple case study evidence using in-depth face-to-face interviews and document analysis. The data were analyzed in four stages using both thematic analysis and cross-case analysis techniques. The authors found both convergence and ergence, however, the evidence points to more convergence and direction toward convergence between MNEs and local firms’ HRM practices. Even though there was evidence of cultural embeddedness within local firms in the adoption of certain HRM practices, the influence of national culture on HRM practice convergence between MNEs and local firms has been limited. Thus, the convergence- ergence debate through the lens of national culture may need to be re-examined. The evidence of convergence and direction toward convergence tendencies within the context can be argued to be less underpinned by local isomorphism limited host-country influence. Practically, there is something to learn from indigenous Ghanaian organizations that can contribute to HRM advancement, the Ghanaian concept of annual durbars, annual or semi-annual gatherings to take stock of past activities and to award hard working staff, could provide the platform to strengthen the employer-employee relationship at the firm level. This study fills an important contextual gap (a less developed country’s context) within the convergence- ergence debate and contributes to informing new knowledge of the convergence- ergence debate, which points to more convergence and direction toward convergence between MNEs and local firms’ HRM practices.
Getting the right mix: Unpacking integration meanings and strategies (International Public Management Journal vol. 10 (1) (9-33))
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 21-05-2007
Informed Superannuation Choice: Constraints and Policy Resolutions
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2002
Contracting-out asset maintenance: How arrangements adapt over time
Publisher: IEEE
Date: 12-2009
The policy delphi method: contribution to policy and strategy within energy organisations: a 2013 Malaysian case study with global implications
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 08-11-2013
Balancing infrastructure for the airport metropolis
Publisher: IEEE
Date: 2008
Putting the entrepreneur back into entrepreneurial ecosystems
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 21-06-2020
DOI: 10.1108/IJEBR-01-2020-0031
Abstract: This paper extends entrepreneurial ecosystems theory by testing how aspects of the local business environment affect in idual entrepreneurs' ability to translate their personal resources into firm performance. Data were collected from 223 business owners across Australia. Moderation hypotheses were tested using multiple hierarchical regression and confirmed with the Preacher and Hayes (2004) bootstrapping method. The results show that business owners' psychological capital, social capital and entrepreneurial education directly affect their in idual firm performance. These positive relations are moderated by specific aspects of the business environment, such that they are stronger when the environment is more favorable. This study puts in idual business owners back into entrepreneurial ecosystems theory and explains how they can make the most of their personal resources, suggesting a complex interplay where one size does not fit all. Far-reaching practical implications for policymakers are discussed.
The psychosocial health status of carers of persons with dementia: A comparison with the chronically ill
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 1998
Evaluating 'Australian Women in Agriculture': 1992-2002
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 03-2003
Engaging indigenous communities: Towards a policy framework for indigenous community justice programmes
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 12-05-2006
Emergency service workers
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 28-10-2022
DOI: 10.1177/0734371X221130977
Abstract: This article examines the impact of psychosocial safety climate (PSC) levels and strength on the job stress and psychological distress of emergency services workers within street level bureaucracies (SLBs). The reason for the research is because the nature of their work and organizational context pre-disposes them to elevated level of psychological distress, and places them at a higher risk of subsequent debilitating physical and mental diseases, which is a cost borne by employees, their families, friends, SLBs, and taxpayers. Survey data was obtained from 274 emergency services workers (including police, and paramedics), nested within 43 workgroups, in Australia. Multilevel regression indicated that lower levels of PSC were associated with higher levels of job stress and psychological distress. Also, PSC strength had a partial moderating effect. The findings justify governments intervening legislatively to ensure SLBs’ take responsibility for ensuring a supportive PSC to mitigates the impact of exposure to workplace trauma.
Measuring the performance of community organisations in Queensland and New Zealand
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 09-1998
Gambling participation in Australia: Findings from the national Household Expenditure Survey
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 07-03-2007
Adjusting to new ways of working : experiments with service delivery in the public sector
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 12-2006
Human resource management in the public sector
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 09-2004
Managing change and innovation in public service organizations
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 02-10-2012
Opportunities and challenges in engaging citizens in the co-production of infrastructure-based public services in Australia
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 14-01-2016
Farm Women and Femocracy
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-2004
Workplace effects of equal employment opportunity legislation: The Australian experience
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-2008
A conceptualization of knowledge governance in project-based organizations
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2014
Beyond Stereotypes: An Exploratory Profile of Australian Women Mayors
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 08-2005
Network structures: Working differently and changing expectations
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 05-2004
Getting the right mix : unpacking integration meanings and strategies
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 21-02-2007
Managing the change process: The state of the art
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 2013
Public values embedded in Australian public works procurement
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-2008
Health care costs of people referred to an aged care assessment team: the effect of cognitive impairment
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-1997
DOI: 10.1111/J.1467-842X.1997.TB01705.X
Abstract: The aim of this study was to determine the effect cognitive impairment has on direct and indirect costs to elderly people, their carers and the community over one year, by following prospectively a cohort of elderly people referred to an aged care assessment team. The 78 subjects were drawn from a random s le of people referred to the NorthWest Hospital team, and validated tools were used to assess their cognitive state. Outcome measures included total costs of community services, residential care, hospital bed use, carer burden and psychological morbidity. A comparison of outcome measures was made between those with cognitive impairment and those without. Use of community services and hospital beds was high overall. Those with cognitive impairment were substantially greater users of residential care, accounting for the higher expenditure in this group. Psychological morbidity and burden remain high in carers of those with cognitive impairment despite a high rate of institutionalisation in this group. The total costs for those referred to aged care assessment teams with cognitive impairment are double those seen for those with normal cognition.
A conceptual framework for international human resource management research in developing economies
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 05-10-2016
Healthy, wealthy and wise?: The effects of globalisation on professional service firms in regional communities
Publisher: Inderscience Publishers
Date: 2004
FINANCIAL LITERACY AND PENSION INVESTMENT DECISIONS
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 07-07-2011
Social services policy and delivery in Australia : centre-periphery mixes
Publisher: Bristol University Press
Date: 07-2005
Abstract: The development of social services policy and the delivery of those attendant services have come to occupy a core role for modern governments. The modes of policy development and service delivery and their coordination have shifted between centralised models operated by decision-making elites and a peripheral model in which government ests some level of authority and responsibility for the development and implementation of social services policy to community-based actors and organisations. Changing policy stances bring these models and their associated coordination principles into dominance at different points in history and, importantly, problematise social services policy making and delivery through the continued existence of residual aspects of these multiple approaches.
Social outcomes in the construction industry: The case of the Western Australian 'percent for art' policy
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 09-2011
HRM development in post-colonial societies: The challenges of advancing HRM practices in Ghana
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 02-04-2018
Abstract: This article is based on a literature review that integrates history, institutions and culture to address the following research questions. First, how did human resource management (HRM) progress during post-colonial Ghana? Second, what factors are likely to undermine the advancement of HRM practices in Ghana? Finally, what are the implications for HRM practice and theory? This article identified several factors originating from the economic and socio-cultural system as driving forces underpinning the advancement of HRM practices in Ghana. Key issues are (i) Ghanaian cultural beliefs and assumptions (ii) respect for social status, power and authority (iii) the involvement of religious institutions in business activities (iv) the dominance of small and medium scale enterprises in the local economy (informal sector) (v) education, skills development and training mismatch and (vi) lack of HRM professionalization and regulatory body. This article argues the assimilation of history, institutions and culture connects comparative HRM practices and post-colonial studies to establish a detailed understanding of persistent colonial institutional inheritance (legacies) of HRM practices as against HRM practices that signify the effects of Ghanaian contextual distinctiveness. We conclude that the best practice is building a synergy of foreign HRM practices alien to Ghana and the culture-sensitive Ghanaian version that produces the best-fit HRM practices for Ghana.
Investigating systematic review for multi-disciplinary research in the built environment
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 05-02-2018
DOI: 10.1108/BEPAM-10-2016-0056
Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to examine the extent to which a systematic review approach is transferable from medicine to multi-disciplinary studies in the built environment research. Primarily a review paper, it focuses on specific steps in the systematic review to clarify and elaborate the elements for adapting an evidence base in the built environment studies particular to the impact of green building on employees’ health, well-being and productivity. While research represents a potentially powerful means of reducing the gap between research and practice by applying tried and tested methods, the methodological rigour is debatable when a traditional systematic review approach is applied in the built environment studies involving multi-disciplinary research. The foundational contribution of this paper lies in providing methodological guidance and an alternative framework to advance the longstanding efforts in the built environment to bridge the practitioner and academic ide. A systematic review approach in the built environment is rare. The method is unique in multi-disciplinary studies especially in green building studies. This paper adopts the systematic review protocols in this cross-disciplinary study involving health, management and built environment expertise.
Managing Knowledge for Asset Management: Shifting from Process to Relational Frames
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 29-08-2014
Gambling revenues as a public administration issue : electronic gaming machines in Victoria
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 14-10-2013
DOI: 10.1007/S10899-012-9338-5
Abstract: Gambling activities and the revenues derived have been seen as a way to increase economic development in deprived areas. There are also, however, concerns about the effects of gambling in general and electronic gaming machines (EGMs) in particular, on the resources available to the localities in which they are situated. This paper focuses on the factors that determine the extent and spending of community benefit-related EGM-generated resources within Victoria, Australia, focusing in particular on the relationships between EGM activity and socio-economic and social capital indicators, and how this relates to the community benefit resources generated by gaming.
Employee voice and strategic competitive advantage in international modern public corporations – an economic perspective
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-2008
Please sort out your rubbish! An integrated structural model approach to examine antecedents of residential households’ waste separation behaviour
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2022
The Value Adding Web Concept of Clusters – Strengthening and Extending the Fundament: Resources, Capabilities and Rents
Publisher: Nomos Verlag
Date: 2019
DOI: 10.5771/0935-9915-2019-4-389
Abstract: A sound understanding of the key resources and capabilities that span firm boundaries in regional clusters is important for firms embedded in networked structures to exploit strategic opportunities and manage associated challenges. A resource-based perspective of value creation in clusters to develop a better conceptualisation of strategic competitive advantage on different levels is also a relevant topic from a strategic management perspective. Therefore, the aim of this research is to strengthen and extend a resource-oriented perspective on clusters, according to the value adding web (VAW) approach developed by Brown et al. (e.g., 2008, 2010). This contribution complements the state of the art of contemporary concepts with a coherent fundament for the resource-based value adding web concept and thereby develops the basis for further empirical studies. In this conceptual paper, we focus on the interaction between actors and relationships as sources for value creation within clusters as well as gaining a better understanding of value creation based on shared relational resources. We illustrate this approach through a discussion of a maritime cluster. Specifically the role of social capital and the relevance of knowledge-related resources on different cluster levels is elaborated. Building on a descriptive and theoretical fundament, we present a set of propositions reflecting our chain of arguments.
Employees’ Choice of Superannuation Plan: Effects of Risk Transfer Costs
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 03-2004
DOI: 10.1111/J.0022-1856.2004.00132.X
Abstract: Consistent with a worldwide trend away from defined benefits towards accumulation benefits, many Australian employers, who traditionally offered their workers defined superannuation benefits, are closing their defined benefit plans to new members and/or offering existing members the option of transferring to an accumulation plan. There has also been a push to allow members greater choice in terms of both funds and investments. Against this background, the Superannuation Scheme for Australian Universities (SSAU) made an offer to its members in 1998 to transfer from the defined benefit section to an accumulation-style plan. Their position was that the choice of fund for employees should be a matter for the employer and the employees at the workplace or their respective representative organisations. At the conclusion of the offer period only one-third of SSAU members had elected to transfer to the Investment Choice Plan (ICP). This study seeks to explain why the majority of SSAU members chose to remain in the Defined Benefit Plan when offered the option of transferring to the accumulation-style ICP. We propose that ‘risk transfer costs’ explain the low ICP acceptance rate. Research findings show that both those who chose to stay in the Defined Benefit Plan (DBP) and those who elected to transfer to the ICP were prepared to accept trade-offs in their choice. DBP members were prepared to forego a higher quantum of expected benefits for greater security of benefits expected in the DBP, whereas the ICP members were prepared to forego such security and accepted higher investment risk in return for a higher expected quantum and greater control over their benefits. Differences in financial proficiency and differences across academic disciplines confirm that risk transfer costs were a key reason why the majority of SSAU members rejected the ICP choice. Important implications arising from this study include the need for greater transparency of the risk transfer costs involved in offers of benefit structure change, such as that offered by the SSAU, and the need to incorporate compensation for such costs into the offer. Cognizance also needs to be taken of the major risk transfer cost of becoming informed about superannuation and the consequences of such costs for the government’s intentions to mandate superannuation fund choice for all Australian workers.
First steps: Linking change communication to change receptivity
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 29-05-2007
DOI: 10.1108/09534810710740191
Abstract: Change receptivity is recognised as an important factor in successfully implementing organizational change strategies. The purpose of this paper is to examine the process of change in the initial stages of a change agenda within a public sector organization and analyze the communication of change. It traces the resultant receptivity to organizational change. The paper investigates whether organizational change communication is a crucial element in employees' receptivity to change. A case study design is employed and the multiple methods employed include surveys, focus groups, archival data and participant observation. The findings indicate that the initial change communication is problematic. The employees respond to a lack of instrumental change communication with a constructivist communication approach in order to manage the implications of continuous change. This research provides an overview of the first 100 days of change in a public sector organization only, and so the limitations of single case studies apply. However, the close investigation of this phase provides further research directions to be addressed. The findings suggest managers need to align employees' expectations of the change communication with understanding of the change goal. The primary value of the paper is in using a communicative lens to study the change process.
Stakeholder Engagement and Asset Management: A Case Study of the Gold Coast Airport, Queensland
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 29-08-2014
Human resource management professionals: their perspective on successful information systems implementation
Publisher: Inderscience Publishers
Date: 2004
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