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Special Issue Call for Papers

Fri, 11 May 2012 02:17:58 -0800

Labour and Industry [Publication date December 2013]
Technology, Work Organisation and Job Quality in Service Work: Changing Contours
In a critical assessment of innovation in the UK Green (2004) defined new technology as incorporating both new work methods and work organisation, in combination with complementary information and communication technology (ICT), which enable management to control work flows and monitor work. The internet and advances in ICT have greatly increased the ability for work to be conducted outside of ‘normal’ working hours (Hyman et al., 2003). Scholarship has previously found a strong association between the intensification of work effort and the introduction of new technology and work organisation (Burchell et al. 2002; Green, 2004). More recently, Askenazy and Caroli (2010) reported that advances in ICT were associated with reducing the isolation some employees feel on the job but mental strain was also found to rise. Other organisational and workforce developments have seen the blurring of organisational boundaries, organisational networking and ambiguous and complex employment arrangements (Rainnie et al., 2006; Currie et al., 2008), all of which impact on job security and job design.

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Call for Papers - ALLA NATIONAL CONFERENCE Working in the Public Interest?

Wed, 09 May 2012 02:36:07 -0800

The Australian Labour Law Association is pleased to announce that its 6th Biennial Conference will be held in Canberra on Friday 16 and Saturday 17 November 2012. The conference will run all day on the Friday, with a dinner that night, then conclude at lunchtime on the Saturday. The venue is the Rydges Lakeside Hotel, conveniently located in the heart of Canberra.

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CHRM Insights Annual Public Lecture: Stimulating individual and team creativity

Wed, 09 May 2012 02:33:00 -0800

The Centre for Human Resource Management (CHRM), University of South Australia, will host its inaugural public lecture in June 2012. This lecture series, titled ‘CHRM Insights’, will showcase high profile international and domestic academics, major organisational leaders, and political figures speaking about current issues relevant to people management. The lecture topics will reflect contemporary challenges in the local, national and international contexts that have implications for effective people management. Details on the inaugural lecture are below:

Presenter: Professor Christina E. Shalley (Thomas R. Williams-Wachovia Professor and GT ADVANCE Professor, College of Management, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)

Thursday 21 June 2012, 6.00pm

Bradley Forum, UniSA City West campus

The lecture will be followed by light refreshments.

Register Online
Registrations are essential

Professor Christina Shalley will discuss how individual and team creativity can be enhanced at work. Organisations hope that creativity will encourage entrepreneurial thinking, improve individual and team performance, facilitate organisational growth and make the organisation a stronger competitor in the international marketplace. Creativity can be demonstrated in any job and at any level of an organisation, but how can organisations nurture their employees’ creative potential? Drawing on cutting edge research, Professor Shalley will explain how individuals can develop their creative thinking skills and how organisations can manage the work context to harness the creative potential of their employees.

Christina E. Shalley received her PhD in Business Administration from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Her current research interests include investigating the effects of various social and contextual factors in enhancing employee creativity. Her work has been published in journals such as Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Management, and Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. She is editor of the Handbook of Organizational Creativity and serves on the editorial boards of the Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, Journal of Management, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, and Organizational Psychology Review. She teaches courses on individual and team creativity, negotiation and conflict resolution, research methods, and human resource management.

If you would like further information about the CHRM Insights Lecture contact Tina Morganella on 08 8302 0606 or tina.morganella@unisa.edu.au.

Special Issue Call for Papers

Wed, 09 May 2012 02:27:54 -0800

Labour & Industry (Publication date December 2013)

Technology, Work Organisation and Job Quality in Service Work: Changing Contours

In a critical assessment of innovation in the UK Green (2004) defined new technology as incorporating both new work methods and work organisation, in combination with complementary information and communication technology (ICT), which enable management to control work flows and monitor work. The internet and advances in ICT have greatly increased the ability for work to be conducted outside of ‘normal’ working hours (Hyman et al., 2003). Scholarship has previously found a strong association between the intensification of work effort and the introduction of new technology and work organisation (Burchell et al. 2002; Green, 2004). More recently, Askenazy and Caroli (2010) reported that advances in ICT were associated with reducing the isolation some employees feel on the job but mental strain was also found to rise. Other organisational and workforce developments have seen the blurring of organisational boundaries, organisational networking and ambiguous and complex employment arrangements (Rainnie et al., 2006; Currie et al., 2008), all of which impact on job security and job design.

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Special Announcement

Tue, 08 May 2012 03:14:53 -0800

It is with great sadness that I announce that Roderick (Rick) Dale Iverson, an esteemed colleague, mentor and great friend passed away on the 3rd May in Vancouver at the age of 53.

He will be remembered for his excellence, his drive, his generosity with colleagues and students and his wicked sense of humour. Rick was a brilliant academic with some major achievements. He had countless A* and A publications, numerous large scale grants, best papers at the Academy of Management and many teaching and research awards.

He was very much loved by his colleagues and students. He is survived by his daughter, Amy, his partner Shelly, Diane, his father and sister. I will announce funeral arrangements when the information comes to hand.

Call for papers. 2nd International Conference on Vulnerable Workers and Precarious Work in a Changing World

Tue, 08 May 2012 02:52:51 -0800

2nd International Conference on Vulnerable Workers and Precarious Work in a Changing World

London, 10-11 September 2012
Middlesex University Business School
Hendon campus, The Burroughs, NW4 4BT, London

Marco Biagi” Centre for International and Comparative Studies, ANMIL – The Italian National Association between Injured and Disabled Workers and Middlesex University, Business School are holding the 2nd International Conference on Vulnerable
Workers and Precarious Work in a Changing World.
This conference follows on from a successful conference held in London in 2010 on Vulnerable Workers, Health, Safety and Well-Being. The papers from that conference have now been published as an edited book (Vulnerable Workers; Health, Safety and Well-being
Gower Publishing 2011).

We wish to continue this theme but also widen it to take into consideration all issues related to vulnerable workers and precarious working such as: employment protection; job
exploitation; slavery; migrant workers; gender and race issues; particular groups of
vulnerable workers; domestic workers; the role of trade unions, NGOs and other interested
bodies; the work of the ILO and other international bodies as well as relevant national
organisations; decent work, contractual issues and turning precarious work into secure work.

This is not intended to be a closed list of topics and we welcome papers submitted on any
topic related to this wide field.

There will be the option to publish suitable papers from this conference in the E-Journal of International and Comparative Labour Studies, a new refereed international on-line journal edited by Adapt University Press.
More info at:
http://www.adaptinternational.it/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=9

The working language will be English.

Contributors are invited to submit an abstract of not more than two pages (Times New Roman 12) by March 30 2012. Abstracts should contain a clear outline of the subject matter with the research questions it intends to answer. Contributors will receive a response to their submission by April 27 2012.

Participation is free. Participants who would like to attend the conference without presenting a paper are highly welcome too.
Abstracts and/or registration should be submitted via the online collaboration area (Moodle area) dedicated to Adapt International events:
http://moodle.adapt.it/course/view.php?id=31
Please follow the instructions you find there.

For any information, please refer to helpdesk@adapttechnologies.it
If you already have an active profile on our Moodle, please refer to that profile.

Symposium proposals – we are also interested in proposals for symposia by groups of academics wishing to present a themed topic. If you are interested in making such a proposal, then please make contact with Professor Malcolm Sargeant on M.Sargeant@mdx.ac.uk

For further information contact the conference organisers:

Dr Maria Giovannone, Adapt Responsible for Occupational Health and Safety Research Unit, Member of the Editorial Board of the E-Journal of International and Comparative Labour Studies maria.giovannone@adapt.it Professor Malcolm Sargeant, Managing editor of the E-Journal of International and Comparative Labour Studies at M.Sargeant@mdx.ac.uk

*Malcolm Sargeant and Maria Giovannone (eds) Vulnerable Workers: health, safety and well-being 2011 Gower Publishing

AIRAANZ Symposia

Tue, 13 Mar 2012 01:50:56 -0800

AIRAANZ is calling for Expressions of Interest from members to fund symposia, workshops and events in 2012-13 that promote IR scholarship and the role of AIRAANZ, in both Australia and New Zealand.

In a pilot project, to be run from May 2012 to May 2013, up to five events will be funded to a total value of $10,000, with a maximum per application of $3,000.

We encourage collaboration across Universities and scholars to benefit the discipline and the AIRAANZ membership. Collaboration is essential if the maximum amount is sought. Collaboration could involve a broad invitation to scholars from other institutions, or it could involve sharing a joint resource (for example, an overseas speaker) over events in two or more locations. Applicants must be financial members of AIRAANZ.

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Call for Papers for special edition of Labour & Industry

Tue, 13 Mar 2012 01:48:27 -0800

Call for Papers for special edition of Labour & Industry

Governance and CSR: Implications for Labour

Editor: Dr Suzanne Young

Governance and CSR has had an increasing focus from the media, investor groups, community and unions as corporate collapses, frauds and bankruptcies have occurred. The GFC demonstrated the failure of compliance-based approaches to regulate behaviour. Even organizations found in the Anglo-world that operate predominantly from the shareholder primacy approach where organizational purpose is based on fulfilling the needs of owners - achieved through maximising financial returns- are increasingly making statements about stakeholder engagement and highlighting this in the work they do in the Corporate Social responsibility field. Employees are key actors in Governance along with capital and management, but their position in governance is problematic with minimal research that examines empirically the position of employees as key stakeholders or how organisations prioritise their needs as stakeholders.

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CALL FOR PAPERS ACE 2012

Tue, 13 Mar 2012 01:43:32 -0800

CALL FOR PAPERS

ACE 2012 - 8-12 July 2012

China’s economic development

Economics of climate change The Economic Society of Australia (Vic), in conjunction with Victoria University, invites you to participate in Australia’s largest annual conference of economists. The 41st Australian Conference of Economists, ACE2012, with the theme of The Future of Economics: Research, Policy and Relevance, will be held at Victoria University, Melbourne from 8 to 12 July 2012.

For more information, download the complete Call for Papers document.

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CALL FOR PAPERS - International CRIMT Conference

Sat, 10 Mar 2012 16:06:29 -0800

October 25th to 27th 2012, HEC Montréal, Montreal, Canada

As part of its Major Collaborative Research Initiatives project, the Interuniversity Research Centre on Globalization and Work (CRIMT) will host an international conference on trade union futures with a strong focus on assessing innovations, transformations and strategies developed by trade unions at the local, national and transnational levels. This conference will take place from Thursday October 25th to Saturday October 27th 2012 in Montreal, Canada.

Unions are confronted with significant changes that appear to require innovation and even transformation. As union actors rethink and experiment their agenda, their organizational structures and their modes of action, what are the innovations taking place and what is the relative success of these innovations?

This Call for papers invites original academic and actor contributions on one or more of the following five core themes.

What do Unions Stand For?
Who do Unions Represent?
What are the Dynamics of Union Activism?
What are the Strategies for Union Power?
How do Unions Innovate?

For details on each of these themes and on how to submit proposals, see the full call for papers athttp://www.crimt.org/UnionFutures.html

The deadline for submission of proposals is April 30th, 2012. They must be sent to Nicolas Roby, CRIMT Scientific Coordinator at the following address:nicolas.roby@umontreal.ca.

The Interuniversity Research Centre on Globalization and Work (http://www.crimt.org) and key research stakeholders look forward to interesting and rich debates. We hope that this conference will bring together academics and practitioners from all perspectives and from many countries, including emerging economies, in order to better our understanding of the challenges to unions of a changing world of work and employment.

For the Coordinating Committee:

Marie-Elen Dubé (CRIMT), Annette Hayden (CRIMT), Marc-Antonin Hennebert (HEC Montréal), Francine Jacques (CRIMT), Catherine Le Capitaine (Université Laval), Christian Lévesque (HEC Montréal), Lucie Morissette (HEC Montréal), Gregor Murray (Université de Montréal), Claude Rioux (CRIMT), Nicolas Roby (CRIMT).

For the Scientific Committee:

Christian Dufour (CRIMT), Peter Fairbrother (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology), Jean-Noël Grenier (Université Laval), Larry Haiven (Saint Mary's University), Adelheid Hege (Institut de recherches économiques et sociales), Marc-Antonin Hennebert (HEC Montréal), Rob Hickey (Queen's University), Pradeep Kumar (Queen's University), Catherine Le Capitaine (Université Laval), Christian Lévesque (HEC Montréal), Lucie Morissette (HEC Montréal), Gregor Murray (Université de Montréal), David Peetz (Griffith University), Philippe Pochet (European Trade Union Institute), Claude Rioux (CRIMT), Ian Robinson (University of Michigan), Nicolas Roby (CRIMT), Kim Voss (University of California, Berkeley), Charlotte Yates (McMaster University).CALL FOR PAPERS
International CRIMT Conference

For further information, download the full Call for Papers document.