Research on workforce diversity at the organisational level gained momentum in the 1990s, because of the growing trend in HR research to link HR practices with organisational performance. The new parallel wave of research focused on the business case for diversity, in which diversity was linked...

This inductive examination of responses to open-ended questions in a 1997 survey categorizes and assesses workers’ attitudes toward unions. The author’s content analysis, hierarchical cluster analysis, and textual analysis of the survey responses yield several results with implications for...

Books reviewed in this article: Collective Bargaining in the Private Sector Edited by Paul F. Clark, John T. Delaney and Ann C. Frost. Industrial Relations and European Integration: Trans- and Supra-national Developments and Prospects Edited by Berndt Keller and Hans-Wolfgang Platzer. Industrial...

This is the first study of how various factors, particularly unions, affect the likelihood of plant closures in Australia. Australia is of special interest in this connection, the authors argue, because of its unique industrial relations institutions, which, at the time of the study (1990-95),...

Performance appraisal systems are a popular tool within organisations to enhance employee commitment and productivity. This paper examines the consequences of three aspects of a performance appraisal system (distributive justice, procedural justice and the performance rating) on the level of...

Employee share ownership in Australia has, until recently, been largely unchartered, despite considerable public policy interest in the area. Although empirical research has recently been undertaken into the current incidence and forms of broad-based employee share ownership plans (ESOPs) in...

Although Employee Share Ownership Plans (ESOPs) are widely used in Australian companies, little is known about why employees participate in these plans. Yet understanding employee motivations for share ownership has significant implications for corporate governance, human resource practice and...