Technological advances including automation and artificial intelligence will have significant influences on ways of working into the future
Recent changes in employment have occurred alongside significant demographic changes in workforces globally, including the emergence of the gig economy, changing labour mobility, digital transformations, and technological advances including automation and artificial intelligence. These innovations have significant influences on our ways of working now and in the future, and implications for how work is approached by management, labour and government regulation.
Our research acknowledges that for businesses to remain competitive, they need to be prepared for the opportunities and challenges afforded by digital and technological innovations. For the future workforce, understanding new ways of working and the new skills required through digital transformation is essential for survival and properity
Areas of research
The future of work
- Capitalism and globalisation
- Changing employment practices
- Employment relations in the retail, community sector, universities, mining, waterfront and meat industries
- Gig economy
- HR analytics
- International and comparative employment relations
- Labour and management history
- Management union relations/ partnerships
- Non-standard work hours
- Ride-share workers
Managing change
- Attitudes to organisational change
- Careers and career development
- Employee attributions about organisational change
- Employee emotional responses to organisational change
- High-performance workplaces
- Human resource information systems and eHRM
- Influence of change processes, change content, and change context on change outcomes
- International human resource management
- Intra- and inter-firm knowledge transfer and absorption
- Leadership during organisational change
- Line managers and frontline managers
- Organisational discourse analysis
- Performance in teams
- Psychological contracts
- Transformational and authentic leadership
- Women in international management
Members undertaking research in this area
- Professor David E. Guest (Adjunct)
- Professor Aoife McDermott (Adjunct)
- Professor Karina Nielsen (Adjunct)
- Professor Jason Shaw (Adjunct)
- Dr Edwin Trevor-Roberts (Adjunct)
Collectivism at Work
Professor David Peetz explains Collectivism and it's important role in the employment relationship.
- Collectivism at Work video transcript (PDF 20kB)
Managing change at work
Professor Brad Jackson discusses how organisations can manage change at work by recognising and developing the collective nature of leadership.
Recent projects
The future of work
- Practices and policies for sustaining employability through work-life learning – Vocations and learning
- Casual Work in Australia
- Employee-Employer Relations and Workplace Challenges in the United States, Australia and United Kingdom
- Gender Equity in Australian Universities
- Institutional Experimentation for Better Work, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
- Measuring Improvements in Enterprise Bargaining
- Ride-Share Drivers' Voice Experiences: A Comparative Australian and UK Study
- The Relationship Between Working Arrangements and Wellbeing in Regional Coal–Mining Communities
- Taking the Pulse at Work: Employer–Employee Relations and Workplace Problems in Australia Compared to the USA
Recent projects
Managing change
- Customising Work Through Manager-Employee Relations
- A Dynamic Model Linking Organisational Systems to Clinical Performance in Australian Hospitals
- Employee change readiness (ARC Discovery - 2013-2020)
- HR Scorecard
- Leadership Development Framework
- Leading Technology and Workplace Innovation
- Organisational Culture Diagnostic and Values and Behaviour Framework
- The Frontline Manager’s Leadership Role
Resources
- Climate Resilient Decision Support Toolkit
- Industrial Relations Society of Queensland
Contact details
- Phone
- (07) 3735 3714
- wow@griffith.edu.au
- Address
- Room 1.17, Business 3 Building (N63)
- Griffith University
- 170 Kessels Road
- Nathan QLD 4111
- Office hours
- 9.00 am – 5.00 pm
- Monday – Friday