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Trade Union Officials (trade + union_official)

Distribution by Scientific Domains

Business, Economics, Finance and Accounting	75%

Selected Abstracts

A Portrait of Australian Trade Union Officials

BRITISH JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS, Issue 4 2001
Tom Bramble
Details are given of the chief characteristics of Australia's trade union officials, using data drawn from the 1986 and 1996 Australian Censuses of Population and Housing. This research note provides an update on research published by a number of authors. Unlike previous work, however, use of Census data allows for direct comparisons of the characteristics of union officials with those of union members or, where such data are not available, with the employed work-force. [source]

From the Gallery to the Parliament: Journalists in the House of Representatives and Senate, 1901,2007

AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF POLITICS AND HISTORY, Issue 4 2009
Wayne Errington
In this article we examine the extent of career cross-over from journalism to politics in Australia using biographical data on the pre-parliamentary careers of federal politicians since 1901. We find that while journalists continue to be over-represented in Australia's national Parliament, there is evidence of a decline in the number making the career switch to politics. We argue that one explanation for this is the growing professionalisation of both vocations, and of journalism especially. Journalism education inculcates in graduates a strong sense of the media's Fourth Estate role, contributing to a professional identity that militates against taking up a political career. We also find that in recent decades, in spite of a small number of celebrated cases of journalists joining the ranks of the ALP, prior careers in journalism have been more prevalent among Coalition MPs. We argue that this reflects an ALP pre-selection system that has become less accommodating of all pre-parliamentary occupations other than trade union official and political staffer. [source]

Partnership and the development of trust in British workplaces

HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT JOURNAL, Issue 1 2004
Graham Dietz
This article examines the alleged links between ,partnership' forms of managing workplace relationships in Britain and the development of intra-organisational ,trust'. The potential for mutually complementary linkages between the two are clear, in theory at least. Partnership should produce, nurture and enhance levels of interpersonal trust inside organisations, while trust legitimates and helps reinforce an organisation's ,partnership'. Qualitative evidence drawn from the self-reports of key participants in three unionised partnership organisations provides some support for the claimed linkages. But it also highlights weaknesses, discrepancies and pitfalls inherent in the process of pursuing trust through partnership. These offer insights into the process for managers, trade union officials, employee representatives and policy-makers, as well as suggesting avenues for future research using trust as a theoretical framework. [source]