John Buchanan
BA LLB GradDipEcon ANU PhD
Professor and Director
john.buchanan@sydney.edu.au
Room 210
H10 - Storie Dixson Wing
The University of Sydney
NSW 2006 Australia
Phone: +61 2 9351 5627
Fax: +61 2 9351 5615
Before his appointment at ACIRRT, John held the position of Director of Policy Research in the Commonwealth Department of Industrial Relations. He has conducted research in the areas of micro-economic reform, local employment initiatives, performance pay, executive remuneration and the industrial relations system.
John has also worked for the trade union movement as a researcher, examining the nature of operation of performance pay systems. He was part of the project team that undertook the first Australian Workplace Industrial Relations Survey (AWIRS). His primary research interest is in how organisations respond to changes in the external economic and policy environment.
In recent years John's research interests have focused on changes associated with the demise of the classical wage earner model of employment. He is especially interested in new approaches to integrating industrial relations, social and economic policies to achieve simultaneous improvements in productivity and fairness.
Research Expertise
- Casualisation of work
- Demise of the classical wage earner model of employment
- Industry relations system
- Microeconomic reform
- Performance pay
- Reforming working time
- The changing nature of work
- The future of work
- Work/life balance issues