Browsing Research Publications and Outputs by subject "1503 Business and Management"
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Collaborating for policy impact: Academic-practitioner collaboration in industrial relations research
Published 2022-04-06Knowledge co-production between academics and practitioners is increasingly a focus for university workplace contexts. While there is emerging interest in how social science academics can engage with industry to generate ...Open AccessPreprint -
Cost-effective, scalable online assessment solutions to assure academic integrity, privacy and equity of access: Towards a framework for success
Published 2022In the context of the rapid transition to fully on line teaching and learning, the ABDC commissioned a project into online assessment in higher education in Australia. This report summarises the findings of that project, ...Open AccessReport, Research -
COVID Casual: Refashioning Professional Work Attire in the Age of Remote Work
Published 2022-02-11The COVID- 19 crisis has transformed the world of work. Two years into the pandemic and more Australians are working from home than ever before, with 40 per cent of the workforce working remotely due to the pandemic (P ...Open AccessReport, Research -
Covid-19 And The Policy-Induced Vulnerabilities Of Temporary Migrant Workers In Australia
Published 2020The COVID-19 crisis has starkly exposed the existing economic vulnerability of temporary migrants in many countries. In Australia, many temporary migrants, who were already at risk of marginalisation due to policies ...Open AccessArticle -
Demystifying the Genius of Entrepreneurship: How Design Cognition Can Help Create the Next Generation of Entrepreneurs
Published 2018Entrepreneurship education is a key beneficiary of design thinking’s recent momentum. Both designers and entrepreneurs create opportunities for innovation in products, services, processes, and business models. More ...Article -
Female Ex-Offenders, Discrimination and Work: The Role of the Success Works Initiative
Published 2020-10-22This report provides a brief commentary on female ex-offenders and the issues they face regarding employability and discrimination in Australia and overseas. It presents research on the unique initiative Success Works, a ...Open AccessReport, Research -
Gender dynamics in the post-pandemic future of work. High level data release for International Women’s Day 2023. Research note 1.
Published 2023-02-23The Australian Women’s Working Futures (AWWF) Project is a two-wave survey aiming at understanding the attitudes of young women and men aged 40 and under about their working futures. In 2017 the first nationally ...Open AccessReport, Research -
Gender Equality and the Future of the Legal Profession
Published 2022-11-23The legal profession is undergoing profound transformation, driven by new technologies and forms of legal service delivery that are upending the traditional organisation of legal work. These changes are disrupting career ...Open AccessReport, Research -
Gendered Disrespect and Inequality in Retail Work: A Summary of Findings
Published 2023-02-14Retail is Australia’s second largest employing industry (Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2022), with approximately 10% of the Australian labour force working in the sector (Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), 2022a). ...Open AccessReport, Research -
A guest-worker state? The declining power and agency of migrant labour in Australia
Published 2020This article presents an historical and comparative analysis of the bargaining power and agency conferred upon migrant workers in Australia under distinct policy regimes. Through an assessment of four criteria – residency ...Open AccessArticle -
Labour commodification in the employment heartland: Union responses to teachers’ temporary work
Published 2022This article analyses the commodification of professional labour and union responses to these processes within the employment heartland. It explores the category of fixed-contract or ‘temporary’ employment using Australian ...Open AccessArticle -
The life cycle of women's employment in Australia and inequality markers
Published 2020-01-01This chapter reviews the life cycle of women’s employment in Australia, arguing that while women’s labour force attachment has shifted and increased significantly in the last 40 years, it still does not match male employment ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Migrant labour and low quality work: a persistent relationship
Published 2019The marginalisation of migrants at work, especially those in industries and occupations characterised by low wages and low-skilled jobs, is a critical issue for scholarship, policy and practice. While the bulk of ...Open AccessArticle -
Shaping the Curriculum: Embedding Indigenous Cultural Competence in the Master of Business Administration
Published 2022-03-29Through this document we invite you to discover the process which was followed to embed Indigenous Cultural Competence (ICC) across the Master of Business Administration (MBA) at The University of Sydney Business School. ...Open AccessReport, Research -
Teachers, fixed-term contracts and school leadership: toeing the line and jumping through hoops
Published 2021Fixed-term contracts are a relatively recent, yet growing category of employment for teachers in the public school system in New South Wales (NSW), Australia. In this article, we draw on quantitative and qualitative data ...Open AccessArticle -
Technology and skills in the future of retail work: A summary of findings
Published 2022-08-08Retail work is undergoing profound transformation, with rapid changes including digitisation, the collection and use of big data, and automation reshaping the industry and the skills required to work within it. These ...Open AccessReport, Research -
Using or abusing? Scrutinising employer demand for temporary sponsored skilled migrants in the Australian hospitality industry
Published 2019This article analyses the function of temporary sponsored skilled migrants in Australian hospitality, an industry with acute difficulties attracting and retaining skilled workers. Drawing upon survey data, the findings ...Open AccessArticle -
Why recruit temporary sponsored skilled migrants? A human capital theory analysis of employer motivations in Australia
Published 2021This article uses human capital theory to analyse employer motivations for recruiting skilled migrants on temporary sponsored visas, a group receiving limited attention within human resource management (HRM) scholarship ...Open AccessArticle -
Workplace gender equality in the post-pandemic era: Where to next?
Published 2021The COVID-19 pandemic exposed and accelerated many gendered labour market inequalities in Australia and around the world. In this introduction to our special issue, ‘Workplace Gender Equality: Where are we now and where ...Article