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Leanne Cutcher

Leanne Cutcher

BA(Hons); UNSW PhD
Associate Professor

Rm 440
H03 - Institute Building
The University of Sydney
NSW Australia 2006

Telephone +61 2 9036 5472
Fax +61 2 9351 4729
leanne.cutcher@sydney.edu.au

Bio

Leanne's research explores employee and customer responses to management strategy and discourse in both the for-profit and co-operative sectors. Her research findings have been published in leading management and marketing journals.

Her current major research project, 'Managing Age in Organisations', is a three-year, Australian Research Council funded project exploring the management of older workers. The project aims to identify the negative consequences of 'mis-managing' age and develop effective employee strategies for managing age. Leanne is currently engaged in research with Siemens Water, Siemens Healthcare and IAG on this project.

Leanne has strong links with the Credit Union Foundation of Australia (CUFA) and is presently involved in a number of projects in relation to credit unions, including management education and research with Traditional Credit Union, Australia's only indigenous-owned financial services institution. She is a member of CUFA's International Development Working Group.

Leanne is Managing Editor of the Australian Review of Public Affairs and Associate Editor of the International  Journal of Work Organisation and Emotion and serves as an ad hoc reviewer  for Human Relations, Organization, Gender Work and Organization amongst  other journals.

Leanne is Co-Director of the Organisation Discourse Strategy and Change Group. This group links colleagues at the University of Sydney with leading researchers at eleven other institutions in North America, Europe and Australia.

Leanne is the WOS' Honours Co-ordinator and responsible for teaching the fourth year honours courses. She also teaches into the School's Executive MBA program as co-convenor of the Integrated Management module.

Leanne is currently supervising two Phd projects exploring:

  • Older workers in the pharmaceutical industry - Ms Barbara Foweraker
  • Discourse and strategy in the Australian mining sector - Mr Maurizio Floris.
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Newsroom articles

  • Women are still being held back at work by ageism and sexism 23 Mar 2013

    The Weekend Australian

    Despite legislation outlawing age and gender related discrimination, a combination of ageism and sexism continues to present a formidable barrier to older women's career progression, argues Associate Professor Leanne Cutcher. Read more

  • Can't pay firms to hire old workers 18 Mar 2013

    The Telegraph

    News Ltd papers have interviewed Associate Professor Leanne Cutcher about the minimal uptake of incentives to hire older workers by business

  • Older women must work harder for job 10 Mar 2013

    The Sunday Telegraph

    Dr Leanne Cutcher, University of Sydney Business School, on International Women's Day on the topic of ageism and sexism in the workplace.

  • Giving older workers a $1000 makeover to help them find work 03 May 2012

    ABC Radio Newcastle

    ABC Radio Newcastle has interviewed Dr Leanne Cutcher, senior lecturer in Work and Organisational Studies at the University of Sydney Business School, regarding the Federal Government's proposal to offer $1,000 as a job bonus to an employer who takes on someone over 55 for a three month period.

  • Give older workers a $1000 makeover to help them find work 23 Apr 2012

    Herald Sun

    The Herald Sun newspaper has published an op-ed by Dr Leanne Cutcher, Discipline of Work and Organisational Studies at the University of Sydney Business School, in which she opines that the federal government's incentivisation payment to employers to hire senior workers will not work because it is not a big sum in the recruitment process and people, even in that age bracket, discriminate based on how an older person looks.

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Research Grants

2012-2014

Managing age in organisational context: a comparative study of the meaning of age among managers

Australians are currently being encouraged to work longer to maximise their contribution to the economy but they often report there are organisational barriers to doing so. This study offers a new approach to understanding age focusing on managers and offers a framework of effective strategies for employers in managing age.

ARC Discovery Project

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Research Expertise

  • Retail banking
  • Financial inclusion of indigenous people
  • Older workers

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