This study involved the analysis of 935 unfair dismissal arbitration decisions of the Australian Industrial Relations Commission from 2000 to 2005. It explores whether gender effects were present in the arbitration decisions, and whether dismissed employees received different arbitration...

Objectives: Employee grievances occur in both SMEs and large organisations as a by-product of the people management practices of the company. This paper aims to report on the differences in grievance arbitration outcomes between SMEs and large organisations in relation to unfair dismissal. This...

Purpose of the research/paper: The complexities surrounding grievance activity in the workplace makes a single theoretical explanation for the entire process an unlikely achievement. As a result, researchers are taking a piecemeal approach to the investigation of the grievance phenomenon. It...

When an employee is accused of engaging in a deviant act by his/her employer, natural justice affords the employee the right to respond to the allegation. In this study, the texts of unfair dismissal arbitration decisions of the Australian Industrial Relations Commission are examined to identify...

Purpose The endless manifestation of employee misbehaviours can be classified according to Robinson and Bennett’s (1995) employee deviance typology. Using this typology, the purpose of this paper is to examine the level of “judicial” tolerance for offences committed by employees across...