Postgraduate Research Studies
Work and Organisational Studies PhD graduates: Tilda Khoshaba, John Murray and Joon Shik Shin
Our new PhD graduates celebrate with the staff of Work & Organisational Studies.
The Discipline of Work and Organisational Studies has a vigorous postgraduate research program and offers the following research degrees:
The Work and Organisational Studies Postgraduate Research Coordinator is Dr Leanne Cutcher.
Staff in the Discipline of Work and Organisational Studies are actively involved in research covering a wider variety of areas. Particular topics of study include:
Industrial Relations
- Australian industrial relations
- International, comparative and regional industrial relations
- Globalisation and industrial relations
- Industrial relations in particular industries
- Geographical aspects of industrial relations
- Industrial relations theory
- Labour law
- Occupational health and safety
Trade Unions
- Trade union growth, mergers and structures
- Trade union management and organisational change
- Trade union strategy
- Gender and activism in trade union
- Trade unions and geography
Human Resource Management
- Strategic human resource management
- International human resource management
- High performance work systems
- Performance management
- Remuneration and reward management
- Recruitment and selection
- Monitoring and surveillance at work
- Management of diversity
- Parental leave and family friendly work policies
Management Studies
- Strategic management
- Critical management studies
- Management communication
- Change management
- Management consulting
- Knowledge management and innovation
- Leadership
Organisational Studies
- Organisational behaviour
- Organisational discourse
- Organisational change and development
- Organisational ethics
- Institutional investors and corporate strategy
- Inter-organisational collaboration
Labour History
- Biographical method
- Cooperatives
- Labour history and locality
- Labour history and community
- Labour history and culture
- Labour history and Federation
Work Related
- Identity and work
- Service work
- Voluntary work
- Business history
- Gender and work
- Ethnicity and work
- Non-standard forms of employment
- New technology/ ICT and work
- The future of work