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Work choices : Increasing productivity, job creation and work-family balance? Not likely! Saville, Kerrie, Hearn-Mackinnon, Bruce, Morris, Leanne and Waddell, Dianne 2008, Work choices : Increasing productivity, job creation and work-family balance? Not likely!, in AIRAANZ 2008 : Workers, corporations, and community : facing choices for a sustainable future : proceedings of the 22nd conference of the Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand, Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand, Melbourne, Vic., pp. 1-10. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads Title Work choices : Increasing productivity, job creation and work-family balance? Not likely! Author(s) Saville, Kerrie Hearn-Mackinnon, Bruce Morris, Leanne Waddell, Dianne Conference name Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand. Conference (22nd : 2008 : St Kilda, Melbourne, Australia) Conference location Melbourne, Australia Conference dates 6-8 February 2008 Title of proceedings AIRAANZ 2008 : Workers, corporations, and community : facing choices for a sustainable future : proceedings of the 22nd conference of the Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand Editor(s) Stanton, Pauline 9780980476613 Publication date 2008 Conference series Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand Conference Start page 1 End page 10 Publisher Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand Place of publication Melbourne, Vic. Summary The introduction of the Workplace Relations (Work Choices) Amendment Act 2005 (Cth) has resulted in one of the most contentious changes to federal labour law in Australia’s history. There is considerable debate as to whether it has fulfilled the government’s expectations of giving ‘flexibility’ and ‘choice’ to both employees and employers or if there has been an overall deterioration in working conditions. In order to identify the impact of this legislation in the workplace, Deakin University surveyed 11,000 AHRI members throughout Australia. Preliminary results are reported in the paper but, even at this early stage, there is sufficient material to critically comment upon the changes to Australia’s industrial relations system. It appears that the vast majority of AHRI members felt that there had been no change in productivity, job creation or work-family balance and that only a few expected an improvement over the next 3 years. Notes v. 1. Refereed papers -- v. 2. Non-refereed papers and abstracts. ISBN 9780980476606 9780980476613 Language eng Field of Research 150306 Industrial Relations Socio Economic Objective 970115 Expanding Knowledge in Commerce, Management, Tourism and Services HERDC Research category E1 Full written paper - refereed Copyright notice ©2008, AIRAANZ Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30018057 Document type: Conference Paper Collections: School of Management and Marketing Higher Education Research Group   Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Versions Version Filter Type Fri, 14 Aug 2009, 14:04:21 EST Tue, 08 Dec 2009, 09:00:54 EST Tue, 08 Dec 2009, 09:02:00 EST Fri, 16 Mar 2012, 16:54:11 EST Tue, 21 Jan 2014, 09:53:25 EST Filtered Full Access Statistics: 464 Abstract Views, 1 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Fri, 14 Aug 2009, 14:04:21 EST

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