Overview
This program comprises a focused and interdisciplinary group of researchers who consider the dynamic relationship within workplace settings and between organisational participants and other stakeholders. The program has close and active partnerships with leading corporations and Cooperative Research Centres (CRCs). Researchers within the program are experts in the fields of industrial relations, which consider collective efforts and responses to workplace issues, and/or Human Resource Management, which focuses on individual employees and organisations. Through applied and theoretical research, the research aims to achieve international standards in 'engaged scholarship' by ensuring that quality, rigour and practical relevance are mutually supporting.
Researchers are currently engaged in projects addressing issues such as employee retention and engagement; gender-based discrimination; youth employment and work-life integration.
In the context of challenges such as globalisation, the impact of technological change, and employees increasingly enmeshed life domains, these projects aim to influence the quality of employment in various settings, informing legislation and public policy towards workplace justice and promoting economic and social development in industry and the community.
- Research leader
- Research team
- QUT
- Organisational unit
- Lead unit School of Management Other units
Professor Paula McDonald
Dr Abby Cathcart
Associate Professor Erica French
Dr Glenda Maconachie
Dr Robin Price
