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Work and organisational studies research

Redesigning the future of work and organisations

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The Discipline of Work and Organisational Studies is home to a long standing and highly regarded group of scholars in this field.

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Our research

Our research and teaching aim to examine, analyse and influence the world of work and organisations in Australia and beyond by exploring challenges around the employment relationship and the workplace. Our research themes include:

  • how perceptions and behaviours of individuals and groups impact the organisation’s functioning and performance
  • design, management and regulation of work
  • development and support of team member and leadership qualities
  • gender, diversity and inclusion at work
  • the future of work and organisations.

Our theory-led, strategy-focused and policy-relevant teaching and research equips our students with the knowledge and skills to work in diverse organisational settings. We contribute directly to knowledge, policy and practice in the fields of management, leadership, organisational behaviour, human resource management and employment relations.

Recent grants

  • Adaptive Digital Nudging for Menopause Support: A Collaborative Solution for Employee Well-being, Liu N, Nguyen H, Drury G, Guo M, Department of Enterprise, Investment and Trade (DEIT)/Boosting Business Innovation Program – TechVouchers
  • Advancing Gender Equality in Australia - Activating the Working for Women Strategy Through a Multi-Year Mixed-Methods Research Partnership, Cooper R, Hill E, Foley M, Galea N, Good L, Groutsis D, Hamilton M, Liu J, Seetahul S, Watt H, Healy J, Commonwealth Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet/Working for Women Program (WfWP)
  • The Impact of Leadership on Collective Mental Health and Well-Being in Southeast Asia, Zettna N, Brain and Mind Centre/Engagement Collaborative Grants
  • New models of replacement care for working carers, Hamilton M, Australian Research Council (ARC)/Mid-Career Industry Fellowship
  • Proxy advisors and political dynamics in ethical investment campaigns, Elbra A, Boersma M, Australian Research Council (ARC)/Discovery Projects (DP)
  • Resistance to gender equality in the Australian construction sector, Galea N, Australian Research Council (ARC)/Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA)

  • Manager capability to lead in the future of work, Cooper R, Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC)/Project Grant
  • New models of replacement care for working carers, Hamilton M, Australian Research Council (ARC)/Mid-Career Industry Fellowship
  • Enhancing engagement in healthcare: A Multilevel investigation of the links between social capital, engagement, healthcare workers wellbeing and patient safety, Kunst H, Sydney Business School/Business School Freda and Len Lansbury ECR Support Fund
  • Enhancing engagement in healthcare: A Multilevel investigation of the links between social capital, engagement, healthcare workers wellbeing and patient safety, Kunst H, Sydney Business School/Business School Early Career Research Grant
  • The everyday work of climate crisis in disaster events, response and recovery: resilience at the intersection of public-paid-workplace and the private-unpaid-domestic spheres, Orsatti J, Sydney Business School/Business School Early Career Research Grant

  • Managing retirement: The transition from full time work to retirement, Baird M, Sydney Business School/Business School Pilot Research Grant
  • NSW Government Graduate Program: Understanding the experiences and aspirations of Digital and Engineering program participants, Cooper R, NSW Public Service Commission/Prequalification Scheme: Performance and Management Services
  • Creating sustainable employment for disadvantaged and vulnerable groups, Knox A, Australian Research Council (ARC)/Linkage Projects (LP)
  • 2023 SOAR - Angela Knox, Knox A, DVC Research/SOAR Prizes
  • Direct Air Capture and the initiation of a national alliance on carbon drawdown, D'Alessandro D, Moore K, Schlosberg D, Tattersall A, Wenger S, Wright C, University of Sydney/Industry Collaboration Program

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Publications

  • Kunzelmann, A., Askovic, M., Forner, V., Zettna, N., Jolly, A., Dey, S., Nguyen, H., Johnson, A., Parker, S. (2025). Configurations of Work Design: A Person-Centered Perspective of Job Demands and Resources in the Healthcare Sector. Human Resource Management Journal, Published online: 14 June 2025. [More Information]
  • Zettna, N., Yam, C., Kunzelmann, A., Forner, V., Dey, S., Askovic, M., Johnson, A., Nguyen, H., Jolly, A., Parker, S. (2025). Crystal clear: How leaders and coworkers together shape role clarity and well-being for employees in social care. Human Resource Management, 64(1), 5-20. [More Information]
  • Kunst, H., Nguyen, H., Johnson, A., MacCann, C. (2025). Does it matter why we try? How goal-focused extrinsic emotion regulation influences co-worker's relational outcomes. Applied Psychology-an International Review, 74(1), e70000. [More Information]
  • Zettna, N., Nguyen, H., Restubog, S., Schilpzand, P., Johnson, A. (2025). How teams can overcome silence: The roles of humble leadership and team commitment. Personnel Psychology, 78(1), 67-102. [More Information]
  • Kunst, H., Byington, E., Johnson, A., Nguyen, H. (2025). Mapping Workplace Compassion Research across the Social Sciences: A Bibliometric Review. Australian Journal of Management, in press.
  • Kunst, H., Nguyen, H., Johnson, A., Mo, S., MacCann, C. (2025). Who cares for those who care? The role of healthcare leaders' regulation of followers' emotions on follower job satisfaction. Australian Journal of Management, 50(2), 312-337. [More Information]
  • Jack, M., Baird, M., Hill, E. (2025). The impact of firm-level work and family initiatives on organizational outcomes, employees and their families: an umbrella review. Community Work and Family[More Information]
  • Breitkreuz, R., Baird, M. (2025). Women’s economic empowerment: A global pathway to gender equality? The Economic and Labour Relations Review[More Information]
  • Gulesserian, L., Veen, A., Baird, M. (2025). ‘Gig’ Work and Fatherhood: A Typology of Ride-Share Fathers in Australia. New Technology Work and Employment, Published online: 16 January 2025. [More Information]
  • Veen, A., Barratt, T., Goods, C., Baird, M. (2025). ‘Woeful Pay, But Still, I Enjoy It’: Refining Subjective Job Quality in Ride-Share Work. New Technology Work and Employment, Published online: 1 July 2025. [More Information]
  • Özbilgin, M., Groutsis, D., Vassilopoulou, J., Erbil, C. (2025). The Refugee Integration Industry: Stakeholder Power, Market Logic, and the (De)Humanisation of Refugee Labour. Population, Space and Place, 31(4). [More Information]
  • Warhurst, C., Knox, A., Wright, S. (2025). Developing a Standard Measure of Job Quality. Work, Employment and Society, Published online: 29 June 2025. [More Information]
  • Vega, C., Billsberry, J., Molineux, J., Lowe, K. (2025). The Development of Implicit Leadership Theories During Childhood: A Reconceptualization Through the Lens of Overlapping Waves Theory. Psychological Review, 132(3), 719-743. [More Information]
  • Lux, A., Lowe, K. (2025). Trump, Putin and Musk all share a leadership style – we’ve figured out what it is. The Conversation, 25 February 2025. [More Information]
  • Zettna, N., Nguyen, H., Shao, Y., Wang, M. (2025). Turn Over a New Leaf: The Impact of Leader Succession on Subordinate Silence and the Moderating Roles of New and Former Leader Secure-Base Support. Journal of Organizational Behavior, Published online: 18 March 2025. [More Information]
  • Zhao, J., Jia, R., Shields, J., Wu, Y., Huang, W. (2025). Romantic Relationships with Virtual Agents and People’s Marriage Intention in Real Life: An Exploration of the Mediation Mechanisms. Archives of Sexual Behavior.  [More Information]
  • Yu, K., Wright, C. (2025). Mainstream Parties’ Construction of Populist Discourse in Australia’s Temporary Migration Policy. Organization, 32(3), 395-414. [More Information]
  • Andersen, S., Wright, C. (2025). Vertical New Knowledge Transfer and the Revival of Multi-Employer Collective Bargaining. Industrial Relations Journal, Published online: 17 March 2025. [More Information]
  • Patmore, G., Balnave, N., Marjanovic, O. (2025). Worker co-operatives in Australia 1833–2024. European Journal of Industrial Relations, 67(3), 453-480. [More Information]
  • Boersma, M., Mellick, Z., Payne, A., Coneybeer, J., Maguire, R., O'Brien, E., Rissanen, T. (2025). Beyond the farm gate: addressing labour and human right issues occurring downstream in the textiles and apparel value chain. Journal of Fashion Marketing and Management, Published online: 21 January 2025. [More Information]
  • Kach, A., Bhakoo, V., McGaughey, F., Boersma, M., Nolan, J., Lichtman, S. (2025). Humanizing supply chains: Turning the spotlight towards remediation in modern slavery scholarship. Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management, 31(1), 100991. [More Information]
  • Healy, J., Pekarek, A. (2025). The triangular relationship in platform gig work: Consumers, platform beneficence and worker vulnerability. New Technology Work and Employment, 40(2), 265-284. [More Information]
  • Craig, L., Lee, D., Hamilton, M., Timonen, V., Adamson, E. (2025). Gender and educational patterns in the demand and supply of grandparent childcare in Australia. Australian Journal of Social Issues, 60(1), 251-269. [More Information]
  • Hamilton, M., Adamson, E., Williams, A., Craig, L., Timonen, V. (2025). The Relationship Between Public Policy and Grandparents’ Involvement in Childcare: A Scoping Review of the International Evidence. Social Policy and Society, Published online: 17 March 2025. [More Information]
  • Lee, B., Wang, Y., Kim, S., Wang, Z. (2025). Leader–Subordinate Human Resource Attribution (Dis)agreement and Its Impact on Employee Well-Being: A Frame-of-Reference Perspective. Human Resource Management, 64(3), 679-693. [More Information]
  • Kim, S., Khoreva, V., Vaiman, V. (2025). Strategic Human Resource Management in the Era of Algorithmic Technologies: Key Insights and Future Research Agenda. Human Resource Management, 64(2), 447-464. [More Information]
  • Barratt, T., Veen, A., Goods, C. (2025). (Institutionally) working Australia's gig economy into employment: Analysing Menulog's modern award application. Journal of Industrial Relations, Published online: 24 June 2025. [More Information]
  • Veen, A., Meijerink, J., Barratt, T., Keegan, A., Goods, C. (2025). Overcoming legitimacy challenges of novel HRM practices during internationalization: The case of two food-delivery platforms. Journal of World Business, 60(2), 101611. [More Information]
  • Sun, J., Veen, A., Wright, C. (2025). ‘While Strictly Speaking It Is Illegal, You Can Work as Long as You Want’: How Platform Facades Enable Gig Workers to Comply With, Bend and Break Migration Rules. New Technology Work and Employment, Published online: 13 January 2025. [More Information]
  • Thai, M., Dawson, N., Grey, W., Anderson, J. (2025). “No Asians” Because “No Femmes”? Racial Preferences in Gay White Australian Men and Their Relationship with Preferences for Masculinity and Femininity. Journal of Sex Research, Published online: 21 March 2025. [More Information]
  • Iftikhar, F., Cox, G., Lau, P., Ishkova, M., Sun, J., Iannucci, C., Kinna, L., Naseem, A., Ansari, A., Nateghi Bayg, H., Kotevska, L., et al (2025). A time-capsule for Students as Partners 2034: What we left behind, what we’ve taken with us, and what we hope will be. International Journal for Students as Partners, 9(1), 321-336. [More Information]
  • MacCann, C., Double, K., Olderbak, S., Austin, E., Pinkus, R., Walker, S., Kunst, H., Niven, K. (2025). What Do We Do to Help Others Feel Better? The Eight Strategies of the Regulating Others’ Emotions Scale (ROES). Emotion (online), 25(2), 410-429. [More Information]
  • Walker, S., López-Pérez, B., Beckmann, J., Kunst, H., Polias, S. (2025). The Need for a Unified Language Framework in Extrinsic Interpersonal Emotion Regulation Research. Emotion, Published online: 19 December 2024. [More Information]
  • Walker, S., Kunst, H. (2025). Helping or holding back? How attachment relates to the regulation of others in close and distant relationships. Personality and Individual Differences, 247, 113437. [More Information]
  • Deng, C., Gulseren, D., Turner, N. (2025). Microdose Leadership Development: Enhancing Leadership Identity and Self-Efficacy Through Short-Term Active Learning. Active Learning in Higher Education, Published online: 29 July 2025. [More Information]

  • Yu, K., Wright, C. (2024). Mainstream Parties' Construction of Populist Discourse in Australia's Temporary Migration Policy. Organization, Published online: 25 November 2023. 
  • Liu, H., Yu, K., Wright, C. (2024). Precarious Multiculturalism: The Racialized Experience of Asian In/Exclusion in Australia. American Behavioral Scientist, Published online: 12 February 2024. 
  • Wright, C., McLaughlin, C. (2024). Short-term fix or remedy for market failure? Immigration policy as a distinct source of skills. Industrial Relations Journal, 55(1), 3-19. 
  • Zettna, N., Yam, C., Kunzelmann, A., Forner, V., Dey, S., Askovic, M., Johnson, A., Nguyen, H., Jolly, A., Parker, S. (2024). Crystal clear: How leaders and coworkers together shape role clarity and well-being for employees in social care. Human Resource Management, Published online: 22 July 2024. 
  • Gelaw, A., Parker, S., Johnson, A., Nguyen, H., Jolly, A., Forner, V., Deng, C., Collie, A. (2024). Determinants of psychological injury among health and social care workers in community settings: A systematic review. Work, 78(1), 3-27. 
  • Nguyen, H., Groth, M., Johnson, A. (2024). How Display Rules Influence Turnover in Healthcare Teams and the Moderating Role of Team Negative Affective Tone. Journal of Service Research, Published online: 25 May 2023. 
  • Zettna, N., Nguyen, H., Restubog, S., Schilpzand, P., Johnson, A. (2024). How teams can overcome silence: The roles of humble leadership and team commitment. Personnel Psychology, Published online: 25 June 2024. 
  • Forner, V., Holtrop, D., Boezeman, E., Slemp, G., Kotek, M., Kragt, D., Askovic, M., Johnson, A. (2024). Predictors of turnover amongst volunteers: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 45(3), 434-458. 
  • Kunst, H., Nguyen, H., Johnson, A., Mo, S., MacCann, C. (2024). Who cares for those who care? The role of healthcare leaders' regulation of followers' emotions on follower job satisfaction. Australian Journal of Management, Published online: 28 November 2023. 
  • Veen, A., Barratt, T., Goods, C., Baird, M. (2024). Accidental flexicurity or workfare? Navigating ride-share work and Australia's welfare system. Economic and Industrial Democracy, Published online: 16 September 2023. 
  • Loh, V., Hamilton, M., Baird, M., Zettna, N., Constantin, A., Andrei, D., Petery, G., Parker, S. (2024). Money matters, but what else? Mature worker motives and the importance of gender, age, socioeconomic status and age-inclusive HR practices. Australian Journal of Management, Published online: 5 June 2023. 
  • Goods, C., Ellem, B. (2024). An improbable driver of “just transitions”? Union power in the coal heartland of Western Australia‘s energy shift. Energy Research & Social Science, 117, 103721. 
  • Ellem, B. (2024). Explaining Union Decline: Remaking Power Relations in the Pilbara Iron Ore Industry. Labour History, Published online: 22 July 2024. 
  • Ellem, B. (2024). Industrial relations as power, place and time: the case of Queensland coal mining. Labour and Industry, Published online: 27 May 2024. 
  • Barratt, T., Sandstrom, J., Ellem, B. (2024). Remaking the socio-spatial fix: Actors, time and crisis in two iron ore towns. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, Published online: 18 April 2024. 
  • Rudman, A., Ellem, B. (2024). Union purpose and power: Regulating the fissured workplace. Economic and Industrial Democracy, Published online: 15 December 2022. 
  • Knox, A., Bohle, P. (2024). Redressing sexual harassment at work: Using pressure, disorganisation and regulatory failure to advance theoretical understanding. Journal of Industrial Relations, Published online: 26 April 2024. 
  • Williams, E., McCombs, K., Pillai, R., Lowe, K. (2024). CEO dark triad traits and organization COVID-19 response: the mediating effect of COVID-19 anxiety and moderating effect of follower self-leadership. Journal of Managerial Psychology, 39(2), 215-228. 
  • Vega, C., Billsberry, J., Molineux, J., Lowe, K. (2024). The Development of Implicit Leadership Theories During Childhood: A Reconceptualization Through the Lens of Overlapping Waves Theory. Psychological Review, Published online: 9 May 2024. 
  • Zhao, J., Hu, K., Tang, J., Tang, L., Wang, C., Shields, J. (2024). Does Playing Video Games Improve Psychological Resilience? The Mediating Roles of In-Game Positive and Negative Affect, Sense of Competence, and Social Connection. Psychology of Popular Media, Published online: 24 April 2023. 
  • Wang, C., Shen, L., Shields, J., Huang, Q., Wu, Y., Yin, J., Zhao, J. (2024). The Efficacy of an SFBT-Based Positive Psychology Intervention in Promoting University Students’ Post-Traumatic Growth and Psychological Resilience After the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Quasi-Experiment. Research on Social Work Practice
  • Pryde, S., Nolan, J., Marshall, S., Kach, A., Boersma, M., McGaughey, F., Bhakoo, V. (2024). Understanding Remedy Under the Australian Modern Slavery Act: From Conceptualisation to Provision of Remedy. Journal of Modern Slavery, 9(1), 70-95. 
  • Groutsis, D., Collins, J., Reid, C. (2024). "I’m Not a Refugee Girl, Call Me Bella": Professional Refugee Women, Agency, Recognition, and Emancipation. Business & Society, 63(1), 213-241. 
  • Vassilopoulou, J., Kyriakidou, O., Ozbilgin, M., Groutsis, D. (2024). Scientism as illusio in HR algorithms: Towards a framework for algorithmic hygiene for bias proofing. Human Resource Management Journal, Published online: 4 January 2022. 
  • Meliou, E., Lopes, A., Vincent, S., Ozbilgin, M., Groutsis, D., Mahalingam, R., Rouleau, L. (2024). Social Diversity and Precarious Organizations: An Intersectional Feminist Perspective. Organization Studies, 45(7), 923-937. 
  • Groutsis, D., Kaabel, A., Wright, C. (2024). Temporary Migrants as Dehumanised ‘Other’ in the Time of COVID-19: We’re All in This Together? Work, Employment and Society, Published online: 19 January 2023. 
  • Groutsis, D. (2024). The state of play of ethno-racial representation on boards: A comparative analysis. European Management Journal, Published online: 2 September 2023. 
  • Duan, J., Kim, S., Su, Z. (2024). Gender and cross-boundary mobility preferences: the moderating effects of organisational and occupational contexts. Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources, 62(1), e12397. 
  • Lee, J., Kim, S., Noh, S., Jang, S., Lee, S. (2024). Paradoxical organizational culture, authoritarian leadership, and international firm performance: evidence from international firms in China. Journal of International Management, 30(1), 101117. 
  • Donald, J., Ciarrochi, J., Guo, J. (2024). Connected or Cutoff? A 4-Year Longitudinal Study of the Links Between Adolescents' Compulsive Internet Use and Social Support. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Published online: 9 November 2022. 
  • Chang, D., Donald, J., Whitney, J., Miao, I., Sahdra, B. (2024). Does Mindfulness Improve Intergroup Bias, Internalized Bias, and Anti-Bias Outcomes?: A Meta-Analysis of the Evidence and Agenda for Future Research. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Published online: 29 June 2023. 
  • Guo, J., Basarkod, G., Perales, F., Parker, P., Marsh, H., Donald, J., Dicke, T., Sahdra, B., Ciarrochi, J., Hu, X., et al (2024). The Equality Paradox: Gender Equality Intensifies Male Advantages in Adolescent Subjective Well-Being. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 50(1), 147-164. 
  • Sullivan, R., Veen, A., Riemer, K. (2024). Furthering engaged algorithmic management research: Surfacing foundational positions through a hermeneutic literature analysis. Information and Organization, 34(4), 100528. 
  • Goods, C., Veen, A., Barratt, T., Smith, B. (2024). Power resources for disempowered workers? Re-conceptualizing the power and potential of consumers in app-based food delivery. Industrial Relations, Published online: 17 July 2023. 
  • Double, K., MacCann, C., Kunst, H., Pinkus, R. (2024). Regulating others' emotions: An exploratory study of everyday extrinsic emotion regulation in university students. Personality and Individual Differences, 226, 112687. 
  • Orsatti, J., Dinale, D. (2024). Livelihoods, work, women and climate change: women’s voice in just transition. Labour and Industry, 34(1), 27-49. 
  • Zhan, S., Zhang, L., Li, X., Wu, Y. (2024). There's no going back? The influence of prior entrepreneurial experience timing on voluntary turnover in post-entrepreneurship wage employment. Personnel Psychology, 77(1), 131-164. 

  • Nguyen, H., Groth, M., Johnson, A. (2023). How Display Rules Influence Turnover in Healthcare Teams and the Moderating Role of Team Negative Affective Tone. Journal of Service Research, in press.
  • Forner, V., Holtrop, D., Boezeman, E., Slemp, G., Kotek, M., Kragt, D., Askovic, M., Johnson, A. (2023). Predictors of turnover amongst volunteers: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Journal of Organizational Behavior, Published online: 19 August 2023. [More Information]
  • Klonek, F., Zhang, F., Nguyen, H., Johnson, A., Liu, Y., Parker, S. (2023). The role of individual goal orientations in shaping skill utilization over time: a four-year longitudinal study. European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, 32(3), 346-359. [More Information]
  • Kunst, H., Nguyen, H., Johnson, A., Mo, S., MacCann, C. (2023). Who cares for those who care? The role of healthcare leaders' regulation of followers' emotions on follower job satisfaction. Australian Journal of Management, Published online: 28 November 2023. [More Information]
  • Veen, A., Barratt, T., Goods, C., Baird, M. (2023). Accidental flexicurity or workfare? Navigating ride-share work and Australia's welfare system. Economic and Industrial Democracy, Published online: 16 September 2023. [More Information]
  • Colussi, S., Hill, E., Baird, M. (2023). Engendering the Right to Work in International Law: Recognising Menstruation and Menopause in Paid Work. University of Oxford Human Rights Hub Journal, online, 1-40.
  • Loh, V., Hamilton, M., Baird, M., Zettna, N., Constantin, A., Andrei, D., Petery, G., Parker, S. (2023). Money matters, but what else? Mature worker motives and the importance of gender, age, socioeconomic status and age-inclusive HR practices. Australian Journal of Management, Published online: 5 June 2023. [More Information]
  • Mosseri, S., Vromen, A., Cooper, R., Hill, E. (2023). Between Frustration and Invigoration: Women Talking about Digital Technology at Work. Work, Employment and Society, Published online: 9 June 2022. [More Information]
  • Goods, C., Ellem, B. (2023). Employer associations: Climate change, power and politics. Economic and Industrial Democracy, 44(2), 481-503. [More Information]
  • Rudman, A., Ellem, B. (2023). Union purpose and power: Regulating the fissured workplace. Economic and Industrial Democracy, Published online: 15 December 2022. [More Information]
  • Belardi, S., Knox, A., Wright, C. (2023). 'The circle of life': The role of life course in understanding job quality. Economic and Industrial Democracy, 44(1), 47-67. [More Information]
  • Ingold, J., Knox, A., Macaulay, L., Senewiratne, S. (2023). 'What about me?': An analysis of employers' engagement with employment service providers in Australia. Journal of Industrial Relations, 65(3), 251-273. [More Information]
  • Volk, S., Lowe, K., Barnes, C. (2023). Circadian leadership: A review and integration of chronobiology and leadership. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 44(2), 180-201. [More Information]
  • Choy, S., Davis, T., Ding, H., Gao, M., Garbuio, M., Hardy, C., Leung, H., Luong, T., Patmore, G., Peter, S., Qiu, B., Riemer, K., Shields, J., Sutton-Brady, C., Vazquez Hernandez, C., Wu, E. (2023). Closer than ever: Growing business-level connections between Australia and Europe. European Management Journal, 41(2), 181-190. [More Information]
  • Brown, M., Bamberger, P., Bliese, P., Shields, J. (2023). Fairness uncertainty and pay information exchange: Why and when employees disclose bonus pay to pay information websites. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 44(9), 1362-1379. [More Information]
  • Zhao, J., Shen, L., Shields, J., Wang, Y., Wu, Y., Yu, Z., Li, Y. (2023). Nurses' Work-Family Strategies during COVID-19 Lockdown and Their Association with Individual Health and Family Relations. Healthcare, 11(22), 2960. [More Information]
  • Nguyen, T., Shields, J., Westcott, M. (2023). Re-examining the NED effect on firm financial performance: the impact and interplay of NED capital and NED equity incentives. Asia-Pacific Journal of Accounting and Economics, Published online: 22 May 2021. [More Information]
  • Shields, J., Kim, S., Chhetri, A., Stanton, P., Nankervis, A. (2023). Traditional, transitional and new performance management practices in Australian organisations: incidence, coverage and perceived effectiveness. Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources, Published online: 25 April 2023. [More Information]
  • Andersen, S., Wright, C., Lansbury, R. (2023). Defining the problem of low wage growth in Australia and Denmark: From the actors' perspectives. European Journal of Industrial Relations, 29(2), 177-194. [More Information]
  • Flanagan, F., Clibborn, S. (2023). Non-enforcement of minimum wage laws and the shifting protective subject of labour law in Australia: a new province for law and order? Sydney Law Review, 45(3), 1-34. [More Information]
  • Clibborn, S., Wright, C. (2023). Proposing mobility visas as an alternative to employer sponsorship: Addressing inequalities in the treatment of temporary migrant workers. The Economic and Labour Relations Review, Published online: 15 December 2023. [More Information]
  • Veen, A., Clibborn, S., McIvor, J. (2023). Termination of enterprise agreements under the Fair Work Act: A systematic document analysis. Australian Journal of Labour Law, 36(1), 58-95.
  • Clibborn, S., Hanna Osborne, S. (2023). The employer perspective on wage law non-compliance: State of the field and a framework for new understanding. Industrial Relations, 62(4), 411-438. [More Information]
  • Groutsis, D., Collins, J., Reid, C. (2023). 'I'm not a refugee girl, call me Bella': Professional Refugee Women, Agency, Recognition and Emancipation. Business & Society, in press.
  • Vassilopoulou, J., Kyriakidou, O., Ozbilgin, M., Groutsis, D. (2023). Scientism as illusio in HR algorithms: Towards a framework for algorithmic hygiene for bias proofing. Human Resource Management Journal, Published online: 4 January 2022. [More Information]
  • Meliou, E., Lopes, A., Vincent, S., Ozbilgin, M., Groutsis, D., Mahalingam, R., Rouleau, L. (2023). Social diversity and precarious organizations. Organization Studies, in press.
  • Groutsis, D., Vassilopoulou, J., Ozbilgin, M., Fujimoto, Y., Mor Barak, M. (2023). Special issue, Migration 'Management': Tensions, Challenges, and Opportunities for Inclusion, Academy of Management Discoveries. Academy of Management Discoveries, in press.
  • Groutsis, D., Kaabel, A., Wright, C. (2023). Temporary Migrants as Dehumanised 'Other' in the Time of COVID-19: We're All in This Together? Work, Employment and Society, Published online: 19 January 2023. [More Information]
  • Groutsis, D. (2023). The state of play of ethno-racial representation on boards: A comparative analysis. European Management Journal, Published online: 2 September 2023. [More Information]
  • Drysdale, K., Persson, A., Smith, A., Wallace, J., Valentine, K., Gray, R., Bryant, J., Hamilton, M., Newman, C. (2023). Professional perspectives on serodiscordant family service provision in the context of blood-borne viruses. Health Sociology Review, 32(2), 145-160. [More Information] 
  • Valentine, K., Smith, A., Persson, A., Gray, R., Bryant, J., Hamilton, M., Wallace, J., Drysdale, K., Newman, C. (2023). The freighted social histories of HIV and hepatitis C: exploring service providers' perspectives on stigma in the current epidemics. Medical Humanities, 49(1), 48-54. [More Information]
  • Subramony, M., van Jaarsveld, D., Nguyen, H., Groth, M., Solnet, D. (2023). Frontline Service Employee Research: Integration of Systematic Literature Reviews and Recommendations for Future Scholarship. Journal of Service Management, in press.
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From Industrial Relations to Work and Organisational Studies at the University of Sydney, 1953 - 2023

The Discipline of Work and Organisational Studies recently launched a book written by the late John Michael O’Brien, documenting the history and story of the study of our department and our discipline at the University of Sydney.

The book is a story of the evolution of Industrial Relations research and teaching and how the Department of Industrial Relations became a Discipline of Work and Organisational Studies in the Business School at the University of Sydney.

“The question explored in this monograph is whether this process constituted a radical change in the philosophy or the educational direction of the group or was primarily an incremental adjustment to changing economic and intellectual environments and changes in students’ preferences. Were all the changes incremental, or were some changes the result of a more deliberate strategy?”

In 2023, the University of Sydney celebrated 70 years of continuous teaching of industrial relations. As well as celebrating our history, this book was written for the future, to share with our future students, staff and friends, the strong body of scholarship they are a part of and to which they can contribute. The occasion was marked by the development of this book and celebrated at a launch in November 2023 with people who have been a part of the history and the continuing community.

The book is available to download for free (pdf, 3.9MB). If you would like a professionally printed copy, please contact us to receive one.

Journal of Industrial Relations

The publication of the November 2021 issue of the Journal of Industrial Relations marks the end of a 22-year period where Australia's leading journal in this field was based at the University of Sydney Business School.

This was the second such long run of editorship: the journal had previously been based at the University from its founding in 1959 (making it one of the first industrial relations journals in the world) until 1974.

In this final editorial (pdf, 491KB), the outgoing team reflects upon the trajectory of the journal and the practice, research and teaching of industrial relations. 

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