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Down the aisle : the effects of technological change on retail workers skills
No full textReconfiguration of corporate structures and the retailer-supplier interface in the retail industry have restructured product markets and supply chains, as well as supermarket employment, over the past decade or so (Baret, Lehndorff & Sparks 2000; du Gay 1996). Various studies have examined the consequent changes in labour usage practices within supermarkets or superstores (Baret et al. 2000; Marchington 1995; Penn & Wirth 1993; Sparks 1992; Dawson, Findlay & Sparks 1987, 1986). Commonly, this literature explores the interplay between shifts in the structure of the labour market, broader societal trends and retailers’ employment strategies. One study found that domestic and gender dimensions, accompanied by industrial relations regimes, exert considerable influence on patterns of labour usage (Baret et al. 2000). However, while the types of labour usage and the drivers of changes to labour usage patterns have attracted significant academic attention, research has largely overlooked the ways in which the nature of supermarket work has evolved as a result of changing technology, which effectively bolsters managerial prerogative, and which has affected the skill levels of workers in the industry (Marchington 1995)
The Ballroom Tango of Youth Temporary Employment
No full textThis paper outlines the experience of the tango of temporary casual employment for youth in Australia. A case study of a large Australian supermarket chain is used to examine the costs and benefits of this form of employment for both parties to the employment relationship. The paper argues that the firm’s lack of commitment to their casual labour force is mirrored in their employee’s casual approach to employment with the firm. As in the ballroom tango which fails to connect the upper torsos of the dancers, youth casual workers are joined in an employment relationship, but the commitment does not extend to the head and the heart
Social citizenship and employment for secondary school students
No full textThe project aimed to understand how young people in different socio-demographic categories (age, gender, rurality) conceptualise and negotiate employment relations and the structural mechanisms (education, industry, legislation) through which youth are socialised in employment citizenship. The study extends previous research on youth employment in that it combines data from young people with that from other key actors in education and employment; that is, schools, employers, government, unions and non-government organizations. Despite the disparate nature of these groups there were some common themes regarding young workers. All agreed, for example, that there was a need for a greater level of employment knowledge and understanding among young people and that the current provisions for information dissemination on this subject are inadequate. There was also general consensus that, despite the need for some further clarifications and some potential limitations, the Child Employment Act 2006 (Qld) was beneficial
Profile of the Retail and Hospitality Industries, Report prepared for the Office of the Victorian Workplace Rights Advocate
No full textThis report provides a demographic profile of the Victorian retail and hospitality industries, by employment characteristics and economic profile. It also examines union membership and industrial activity, wages, and methods of wage setting within the industries
Technological change, work re-organisation and retail workers’ skills in production-oriented supermarket departments
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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Planning for an Aging Workforce
No full textAn aged and ageing workforce has become a reality for the human resource (HR) professional in developed countries globally. Within the public sector, managing ageing human resources is made more complex by the myriad of legislative and policy guidelines that influence employment-related policies and practices, as well as a tradition of security of tenure. The complexity of the public service human resource environment has been further exacerbated by new public management which has decentralised and devolved HR functions to individual agencies (Coventry, 2001). While the decentralisation of HR to agencies has enabled agency HR departments to devise policies that meet the specific human resource needs of the agency, it has also resulted in a loss of centralised understanding of the composition of the workforce as a whole.\ud
This research project set out to examine the issues associated with an ageing workforce within a case study of an Australian state public service. The research highlighted a number of factors that limited an agency level HR manager’s capacity to deal with their ageing workforces, and it is these factors that are the focus of this paper. These factors include the lack of an integrated human resource information system (HRIS), the nature of the information collected within the HRIS, and the capacity of HR professionals within the agencies to obtain and analyse the data obtained from the HRIS. We argue that agency level HR professionals need a comprehensive whole of service human resource information system, and the skills to use and analyse the data derived from it to better inform their workforce planning
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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