Employment and Work

**Featured Research Project**

ACREW Flagship Survey - The Australian Worker Representation and Participation Project

This research builds upon, and extends, the first Australian Worker Representation and Participation Survey (AWRPS) undertaken in 2003-2004, which was part of a larger, collaborative six nation study.  This second survey of 1,000 Australian workers seeks to extend the prior research by exploring employee voice, involvement and participation in management decision making in greater depth, alongside general experiences and attitudes to work.

Employee voice has important policy implications having been linked to high performance work systems, firm competitiveness and employee trust. The policy implications are even more profound under the new legislative environment, following the dramatic changes to federal industrial relations legislation in 2006 resulting from the enactment of the Work Choices Act. This second survey will enable the researchers to provide a detailed description of the incidence of employee representation and voice arrangements in Australia, pinpointing changes over the past three years, which can in turn be utilised to improve industrial relations policy and labour market regulation in Australian workplaces.

Recent publications from this study include:-

Holland, P., Pyman, A., Cooper, B., & Teicher, J. (2009). The development of alternate voice mechanisms in Australia: The case of joint consultation.  Economics and Industrial Democracy, 30(1), 67-92.

Pyman, A., Teicher, J., Cooper, B., & Holland, P. (2009). Union demand for unmet membership in Australia. Journal of Industrial Relations, 51(1), 5-26.

Haynes, P., Holland, P.J., Pyman, A. & Teicher, J. (2008). Free-riding in Australia. Economics and Industrial Democracy, 29(1), 7-34.

Teicher, J., Holland, P., Pyman, A., & Cooper, B. (2007). Employee voice in Australia. In R. Freeman, P. Boxall and P. Haynes (Eds.), What Workers Say: Employee Voice in the Anglo-American World. New York: ILR Press, Ithaca

Researchers

Dr Peter Holland, Peter.Holland@buseco.monash.edu.au
Professor Julian Teicher, Julian.Teicher@buseco.monash.edu.au
Dr Brian Cooper, Brian.Cooper@buseco.monash.edu.au
Dr Amanda Pyman, Kent Business School, University of Kent

Current Research Projects

The Roles of Personal Values and Organisational Context in Predicting Innovative Behaviour
The Implications for Victorian Low Paid Workers of Changes in Industrial Relations Legislation
The Development of Corporate Universities in Australia

Past Research Projects

Australian Worker Representation and Participation Project (AWRPP)
Will You Still Need Me, Will You Still Feed Me, When I'm 64?
Labour Market Equity (EEO) for Women in the Victorian Public Sector
Strategic Leadership in the Arts Industry: A Comparison between Australia and Canada

Resources

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Reference Lists

Useful Links

Research Centres

Centre for Employment and Labour Relations Law, The University of Melbourne:
http://celrl.law.unimelb.edu.au/

The Warwick Institute for Employment Research is one of Europe's leading centres for research in the labour market field, University of Warwick, UK:
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/ier/

The Institute for Employment Studies: The work of IES embraces all aspects of public employment policy and HR practice, University of Sussex Campus, UK:
http://www.employment-studies.co.uk/main/index.php

W.E.Upjohn Institute for Employment Research:
http://www.upjohninst.org/

Publications

ACREW academics are committed to research; this is reflected in the range of its publications.  Selected publications are available download as a pdf.

Journal Publications
Books and Book Chapters
Research Reports
Student Research Reports