Research Publications and Outputs: Recent submissions
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Determinants of Early-Access to Retirement Savings: Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic
Published 2022The COVID-19 Early Release Scheme allowed Australian retirement plan participants in financial hardship immediate access to up to $A20,000 of their ‘preserved’ retirement savings, making otherwise illiquid balances temporarily ...Preprint -
Theorizing compassionate leadership from the case of Jacinda Ardern: Legitimacy, paradox and resource conservation1
Published 2022During times of suffering such as that inflicted by the COVID-19 pandemic, compassion expressed by leaders helps to ease distress. Doing so, those in a position to provide resources that might facilitate coping and recovery ...Article -
Women, work and industrial relations in Australia in 2021
Published 2022The year 2021 has been momentous for women at work in Australia. Two key themes loom large: first, the highly gendered impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on paid and unpaid work, and second, the ongoing crisis of persistent ...Article -
Humanizing work in the digital age: Lessons from socio-technical systems and quality of working life initiatives
Published 2022New and residual challenges related to digital technology, COVID-19, precarious employment and scientific management are a reminder of research published in the early years of Human Relations that laid the foundation for ...Article -
Public servants working from home: Exploring managers' changing allowance decisions in a COVID-19 context
Published 2022Before the COVID-19 pandemic forced large sections of the workforce to work from home, the uptake of working from home in the public sector had been limited and subject to the discretion or 'allowance decisions' of individual ...Article