Explores how globalisation has affected Australian public policy in general and higher education policy in particular. Considers the impacts of globalisation on Australian universities, and examines the ways in which university leaders invoke the rhetoric of globalisation to set the foundations for institutional change, pursue the repositioning of their institutions, and to develop a new discourse for the sector. The effects of globalisation on Australia and its universities are seen to be significant, and to impact in both direct and indirect ways.
This paper focuses on workplace industrial relations, arguing for measures that distinguish workplaces according to variations in the quality of their labour relations. This enables workplaces to be periodically assessed and encourages research on the determinants of variations in workplace relations, thereby contributing to policy formation. The paper draws on survey data from the Australian metal industry. It concludes by suggesting that if workplace analysis is to progress, industrial relations needs to be opened up to insights from organisational behaviour and other disciplines.
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