Workshop 1 - Tuesday 25 August 2009 - 1400 – 1530
Chair: Etsuko Hayshi
Room: Bayside 103
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| 1400 – 1415 |
Is Family-Friendly Management Good for Firms?
Prof Byoung-Hoon Lee, Chung-Ang University SOUTH KOREA
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| 1415 – 1430 |
Flexible Working in Organisations: the perspective of co-workers
Dr Clare Kelliher, Cranfield School of Management UK
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| 1430 – 1445 |
Does Extending Workers’ Freedom of Choice Contribute to Balancing Work-Life over the Life Cycle?
Dr Lei Delsen & Jeroen Smits, Radboud University Nijmegen NETHERLANDS
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| 1445 – 1500 |
Balancing Work and Family or Balancing the Books? Managerial and Employee Responses to Parental Leave Policies
Gillian Whitehouse, University of Queensland & Marian Baird, University of Sydney AUSTRALIA
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| 1500 – 1515 |
Explaining Organizational Responsiveness to Work-Life Balance Issues: The Role of Business Strategy
Jing Wang & Anil Verma, University of Toronto CANADA
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Plenary 3 – Wednesday 26 August 2009 - 0900 - 1030
Chairs: Thomas Kochan, MIT Sloan School of Management, USA & Etsuko Hayashi, Kanagawa University, Japan
Room: Bayside Auditorium A
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| 0900 – 0920 |
Keynote Presentation
Barbara Pocock, University of South Australia, Australia
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| 0920 – 0935 |
Parents' Experiences of Flexible Working Arrangements in Diverse Contexts
Prof. Suzan Lewis & Laura Den Dulk, Middlesex University Buisness School, UK
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| 0935 – 0950 |
Flexicurity from the Individual’s Work/Life Balance Perspective: - The effects of different flexibility and security constellations when combining paid work with child or elder care in Denmark, Finland, Portugal and the UK
Trine Pernille Larsen, FAOS DENMARK
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| 0950 – 1005 |
Society against Markets: Workers, Households and Communities in Orange, Australia; Ezakheni, South Africa; and Changwon, South Korea
Prof Edward Webster & Andries Bezuidenhout, Sociology of Work Unit SA & Rob Lambert University of Western Australia, AUSTRALIA
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| 1005 – 1020 |
Inflexible Work Hours: The Cost to Work-Life in the US
Prof Lonnie Golden, Penn State University, Abington College USA
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Workshop 2 - Wednesday 26 August 2009 – 1100 -1245
Chair: Thomas Kochan
Room: Bayside 103
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| 1100 – 1115 |
Decentralisation of working hours in Denmark – a win-win situation for employers and employees?
Ms Anna Ilsøe, Employment Relations Research Center (FAOS) DENMARK
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| 1115 – 1130 |
Employment contract and family status dimensions of weekend work in Canada
Dr Isik Zeytinoglu, Gordon Cooke & Sara Mann, McMaster University CANADA
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| 1130 – 1145 |
Changing Times - support and resistance for new working-time arrangements in a blue-collar workplace
Sara Charlesworth, RMIT University AUSTRALIA & Marian Baird, The University of Sydney, AUSTRALIA
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| 1145 – 1200 |
Higher education expansion in the UK: the impact on graduate earnings, occupational change and gender inequalities in employment
Prof Kate Purcell & Peter Elias, University of Warwick UK
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| 1200 – 1215 |
Developing a Strategic Approach for Managing an Ageing Workforce
Prof Helen De Cieri, Monash University AUSTRALIA, Christina Costa, McKINNA et al., AUSTRALIA, Trisha Pettit & Donna Buttigieg, Monash University, AUSTRALIA
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Workshop 3 - Wednesday 26 August 2009 – 1600 - 1730
Chair: Etsuko Hayshi
Room: Bayside 103
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| 1600 – 1615 |
Reshaping Gender and the Labour Force: A Comparison of Social and Industrial Policy Impacts in the Australian and Canadian Community Sectors
A/Prof Donna Baines, McMaster University, CANADA
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| 1615 – 1630 |
Legal Structures that Regulate Work-Family Balance: Comparing Developed Market Economies
Prof Richard Block, Michigan State University USA
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| 1630 – 1645 |
Market Forces, WorkLife Balance and Industrial Relations – the interconnections
Dr Patricia Todd & Jennifer Binns, UWA Business School AUSTRALIA
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| 1645 – 1700 |
The possibilities and limitations of collaboration for union power: exploring collaboration with community organisations in Australia, Canada and the United States
Amanda Tattersall, Unions NSW AUSTRALIA
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| 1700 – 1715 |
The Adoption of Work-Family Arrangements by Employers in South Africa
Ms Lisa Dancaster, University of KwaZulu Natal SOUTH AFRICA
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Workshop 4 – Thursday 27 August 2009 - 0900 - 1030
Chair: Thomas Kochan
Room: Bayside 103
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| 0900 – 0915 |
Changed Work, Changed Lives? Workers’ Experience of Redundancy within their Community
Dr Jean Jenkins & Paul Blyton, Cardiff Business School UK
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| 0915 – 0930 |
Equality Bargaining in the Australian Public Service: Incorporating Gender Mainstreaming
Ms Sue Williamson, University Of Sydney AUSTRALIA
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| 0930 – 0945 |
Towards a critical literature on work, family and community in resource dependent rural Australia: A case study of the closure of the Ravensthorpe nickel mine in Western Australia
Dr Robyn Mayes & Barbara Pini, Curtin University of Technology AUSTRALIA
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| 0945 – 1000 |
Gender Gap in Preferences for Defined Contribution Pensions in Japan
Dr Satoshi Watanabe, Hiroshima University JAPAN |
