"TRANSFORMATION OF AUSTRALIAN INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS" EXECUTIVE SUMMARY A major transformation in the structures and processes that underpin industrial relations arrangements in Australia appears to have occurred during the last 10 years or so. There has been a move away from reliance ...

Introduction: Human Resource departments are going to be facing new and critical challenges in the near future – when it comes to recruiting, hiring, and retaining fresh talent – even beyond what they face today. Indeed, according to a new study by Monster Worldwide, a leading global on...

INTRODUCTION Years ago, one would get out of school, obtain a job and work until retirement with that same company. Today, however, employees are more transient than ever before in recent history. They might start at one company and in a few years move to a company that offers more advancement and ...

Should employers be allowed to screen employees for drugs randomly? Abstract Among employers, there is growing awareness of yet another factor with regard their employees' health that they have to take into account. The apparent prevalence of illegal drug use at work has, in the U...

It seems almost everywhere you turn these days, some type of change in this world is being attributed to the tragedies of September 11. One of the biggest places this change is evident is in peoples' place of employment. Even before September 11, however, a trend was growing in the business w...

When you ask employees what they'd rather have, cash or a gift, many times they will say, "Oh, just give me the money." However, this is not always the case. A survey of 1000 adults working for Fortune 500 organizations revealed that salary and bonuses are not the key factors to ...

With globalization affecting almost every country in the world today, there comes a greater need for trade liberalization, and a more robust flow of investments. As such, it is inevitable that jobs once held by a country's workers will now be subject to global market forces, and may be moved ab...

Job Burnout It helps to understand the causes of burnout if we know what exactly causes burnout. "In its basic form, burnout is emotional exhaustion" (). Burnout is job related and not caused by problems at home. Employees who are experiencing burnout are usually enthusiastic, young and...

What is stress? How to deal with stress – and what are the pivotal causes of stress – those are the key questions to be addressed in this paper. But at the outset the emphasis should be on precisely what is stress. In their book, Managing Yourself: How to Control Emotion, Stress, and Tim...

Appropriate & Inappropriate Employee Dismissal I. Introduction Firing an employee. That sounds like a pretty simple thing to do doesn't it? Well if you think that's true then you are in for a surprise. Employee dismissal is becoming a very complicated affair. It's not as simple ...

THE IMPACT OF THE MINIMUM WAGE Since January 1993, the American economy has created 21 million new jobs. In the last four years, labor productivity has grown at a 2.9 percent annual rate and GDP has grown at a 4.4 percent annual rate. At the same time, the underlying core inflation rate in 1999 w...