Employee Relations: Volume 28 Issue 5

Fast‐food work: are McJobs satisfying?

Cameron Allan, Greg J. Bamber, Nils Timo

McJobs in the fast‐food sector are a major area of youth employment. This paper explores young people's perceptions of work in this industry.

State of the psychological contract: Manager and employee perspectives within an Australian credit union

Richard Winter, Brent Jackson

To identify and describe work environment conditions that give rise to a shared or different state of the psychological contract for managers and employees.

Determining the significance of the citizens' advice bureau as an industrial relations actor

Brian Abbott

This paper draws on established and more recent concepts of an industrial relations actor and applies them to the citizens' advice bureau (CAB). The purpose of this is to…

Forced employment contract change and the psychological contract

Mark N.K. Saunders, Adrian Thornhill

To explore the implications for all employees' psychological contracts of a forced change from permanent to temporary employment status for some employees within an organisation.

Gender change? Locked into industrial relations and Bourdieu

Susan Sayce

The purpose of this paper is to seek greater academic discussion of gender and gender change within industrial relations. It attempts to move the theoretical discussion of gender…

Unfair dismissals in Australia: does arbitration help employees?

John Chelliah, Brian D'Netto

To determine the factors associated with arbitration awards in unfair dismissal complaints under Australian federal legislation and to assess whether employees benefit from…

Editorial

John Gennard