- Title
- Workplace partnership in Australia: real or imaginary?
- Creator
- Townsend, Keith; Wilkinson, Adrian; Brown, Kerry; Burgess, John
- Relation
- 25th Conference of the Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand (AIRAANZ). Proceedings of the 25th Conference of the Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand (AIRAANZ) (Auckland, New Zealand 1-4 February, 2011)
- Relation
- http://airaanz.eventsmart.co.nz
- Publisher
- Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand (AIRAANZ)
- Resource Type
- conference paper
- Date
- 2011
- Description
- Throughout the last 20 years many countries have pursued an agenda seeking more collaborative management-union arrangements or ‘partnerships’. The current workplace industrial relations (IR) legislation in Australia suggests a shift towards a new model of workplace interaction that includes more collaboration and partnerships. Former Prime Minister Keating argued that the 1983-1996 Accord was ‘a state of mind’ rather than an actual reform program seeking a tripartite relationship between unions, government and business. This article assesses the extent to which collaboration and partnership in Australia’s modern IR system is a ‘new’ state of mind or whether it is a realistic roadmap to a new Australian IR landscape. The implications of this agenda for industrial practice and the conduct of industrial relations are considered.
- Subject
- industrial relations; legislation; Australia; industrial practice
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/938663
- Identifier
- uon:12650
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781877314978
- Language
- eng
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