John Burge
Biographic Data
| ID | 1704934 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Burge |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Burge |
| SIGNATURE | BURGE J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Curtin University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9875-3275 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 43 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 61 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 43 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1913 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Meaningful voice during university restructuring
The study examines how employee voice is exercised during a university restructuring. The investigation focuses on the consultation process outlined in the enterprise agreement (EA) and the employer’s obligation to consult under Australian legislation. The research centres on a regional university in Australia that consolidated its five faculties into three colleges in 2020. This consolidation led to job losses and impacted both professional and …
Internal and external factors enhancing knowledge acquisition and digital literacy for digital business transformation
Small business digital transformation remains insufficiently examined, particularly in emerging markets. Prior research has largely concentrated on large enterprises or specific technological implementations and has predominantly adopted a factor-based approach, offering limited insight into how internal and external drivers are translated into digital transformation outcomes. Addressing this gap, this study develops a mechanism-based framework i…
Decent work in Sub-Saharan Africa
Establishing ‘decent work and economic growth’ as one of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has elevated the discourse of decent work beyond national level policy debate. For emerging economies in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), the literature, though limited, has sought to explore prospects for workers to find productive and decent work in conditions of human dignity, equity, freedom and security. In this paper, we provide a revie…
Psychosocial workplace hazards and industrial relations
This article introduces the special issue, bringing together research on psychosocial workplace hazards (PSWH) which engages industrial relations (IR) perspectives. This is important as PSWH are increasingly studied and regulated, with new regulatory frameworks creating opportunity and necessity for IR perspectives to engage with PSWH. These hazards are intimately related to power relations between employers, workers and the broader society withi…
The Emerging Gig Economy and Sustainable Development in Sub-Saharan Africa
Online work mediated by digital platforms is prevalent across various sectors, including food delivery, data entry, and professional services. Globally, gig work and the gig economy are growing with improved and increased Internet coverage and mobile phone sales. Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is no exception as the online economy expands, albeit unevenly across the many countries in the region. Given that the region is afflicted by poverty, unemployme…
On location’
In analysing the working lives of independent filmmakers, a critical consideration is the aspect of where work takes place and the need for both appropriate space in which to shoot films and the mobility to make it happen. The concept of being ‘on location’ is a well-known aspect of film production as the traditional studio system was designed around economies of scale and the minimisation of costs for both environmental and human factors. For th…
Decent gig work in Sub Sahara Africa
Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) economies are entrenched in traditional economic and employment structures driven by the informal sector. There is a small and regulated formal sector, built upon public sector employment. Unlike the discussion of gig work in advanced capitalist economies, the development of gig work in SSA is within an environment where employment standards and labour regulations are largely absent. The concern in developed countries is …
Ageing Asia and the Pacific in Changing Times
Decent work for sustainable development in post‐crisis Nepal
Although the Decent Work agenda has received significant attention in the context of sustainable development, the formulation and implementation of appropriate social policies in developing countries remain an underexplored subject. This article responds to this gap and traces country‐specific Decent Work related policies and programs in Nepal—which is recovering from two major crises: a decade‐long armed conflict that ended in 2006 as well as th…
Skill Development
Purpose of the study: Due to changes in the occupational structure and the new regulations in all global industries, skill development is critical for stakeholders from the local governments and industry persons. This study explores how companies and technical vocational education and training (TVET) institutions in Vietnam can promote new ways of skill development for the future workforce in the garment and textile industry. It aims to address i…
Developing the Workforce in an Emerging Economy
Addressing human resource development challenges in Indonesia
The findings and recommendations across the chapters are presented and discussed. A summary table identifies the HRD focus of each chapter, identifies the key stakeholders and summarises the findings. The chapter concludes with a discussion of the limitations of the collection and suggests areas for future research
HRM development in post-colonial societies
This article is based on a literature review that integrates history, institutions and culture to address the following research questions. First, how did human resource management (HRM) progress during post-colonial Ghana? Second, what factors are likely to undermine the advancement of HRM practices in Ghana? Finally, what are the implications for HRM practice and theory? This article identified several factors originating from the economic and …
Graduate work-readiness challenges in the Asia-Pacific region and the role of HRM
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to focus on graduate work-readiness challenges in three Asia Pacific economies (Malaysia, Indonesia and Australia), and the roles of three main stakeholders (government, employers and industry) in the process. The intention of the paper is to design a stakeholder-oriented HRM model to address the identified graduate work-readiness challenges. Design/methodology/approach A qualitative triangulation method compr…
Inclusion and work
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to outline the key global challenges relating to youth employment and consider some ways that they may be addressed to allow their inclusion in the contemporary workplace. Also, the paper provides a brief introduction and rationale for the other five articles comprising this special issue volume. Design/methodology/approach The approach concerns a review of the relevant literature and reports on the topic. Fin…
Family-friendly support programs and work family conflict among Indonesian higher education employees
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the effectiveness of family-friendly programs at the workplace in the Indonesian higher education sector. The focus is the impact that these programs have on employees’ work family conflict. Design/methodology/approach – A survey of academic and non-academic staff from 30 higher education institutions across Indonesia participated in the research. A total of 159 completed questionnaires from 109 a…
Contemporary contestations over working time
The study posits that time is a key mechanism through which particular forms of labour market policies impact health. The labour market flexibility agenda appears to be operating as a time re-distributive device: it has supported the removal of regulations that governed 'the when' of working time and removed limits over the amount of working time, thus extending by many hours the notion of the 'standard' working week and forcing employees to adap…
Gender wage gaps in Australian workplaces
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to focus on the implications of the gender wage gap in Australia, before considering policy responses and their effectiveness at both the government and workplace levels. Design/methodology/approach – The method concerns an extensive literature review and an examination of secondary data and reports relating to workplace gender equality and data. Findings – While the gender wage gap in most OECD countries ha…
Flexible employment, flexible eating and health risks
Over the last 30 years, the risks to public health from working conditions have subtly shifted in line with new economic regimes, notably the shift towards contractualist, individualised market driven and ‘flexible’ regulation of employment associated with the neo-liberal project. Yet, the resulting transformation in temporal schedules has occurred without due consideration of potential health impacts. We contend that contemporary employment poli…
Voices from higher up the ladder
This paper focuses on an under‐researched employee category in the call centre literature—the team leader. The paper, drawing on data from nine A ustralian call centres, finds that the team leader role is integral to the effectiveness of call centres, yet it is a role that consists of considerable complexity and contradictions. The research demonstrates the critical role performed by team leaders: coach, mentor, trainer, performance evaluator, co…
Poland, 1980–1984
The late Francis Stuart, the first Australian Ambassador to be resident in Poland, wrote an interesting book about his long career in the Foreign Service. Towards Coming of Age was published in 1989 and Stuart's reflections on his last post abroad, to Poland, included the following: It is fanciful to believe that the Soviet leadership would ever question the infallibility of their official doctrine or relinquish the glacis of subordinate states p…
Pathways from Casual Employment to Economic Security
Looking Again at Pompey's Theater
Continuing the work of our first season in the Theater of Pompey in 2002, our second excavation season (July-August 2005) revealed a layer of travertine slabs at 10.38 masl, which was probably a section of the foundation. We also investigated the area around an ancient pier, one of the pair between the excavation area and the passage under the stairs/seats that led to the Temple of Venus Victrix. By calculating the depth of the pier, we located t…
On Anti-Anti-Realism
Affirmative action or managing diversity
Equal employment opportunity policies were introduced in Australia in the 1980s in response to women's disadvantaged workforce position. Australia's unique form of affirmative action was underpinned by legislation, and aimed to promote gender equity in the workplace via employer action. Throughout the 1990s there has been a policy shift away from collectivism towards individualism, and away from externally driven social programmes at the workplac…
Casual Employment in Australia and Temporary Employment in Europe
Labour market analysis conventionally distinguishes amongst employees according to whether their contract of employment is ‘permanent’ or ‘temporary’. The permanent contract of employment, best understood as a contract for an indefinite term, is the central form. It has served as the crucial pivot in the development of ‘industrial citizenship’ during much of the twentieth century. Most advanced capitalist societies, apart from isolated exceptions…
Phonology and pronunciation in integrated language teaching and teacher education
Focus on grammatical form
Looking Again at Pompey's Theater
Continuing the work of our first season in the Theater of Pompey in 2002, our second excavation season (July-August 2005) revealed a layer of travertine slabs at 10.38 masl, which was probably a section of the foundation. We also investigated the area around an ancient pier, one of the pair between the excavation area and the passage under the stairs/seats that led to the Temple of Venus Victrix. By calculating the depth of the pier, we located t…
Inclusion and work
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to outline the key global challenges relating to youth employment and consider some ways that they may be addressed to allow their inclusion in the contemporary workplace. Also, the paper provides a brief introduction and rationale for the other five articles comprising this special issue volume. Design/methodology/approach The approach concerns a review of the relevant literature and reports on the topic. Fin…
HRM development in post-colonial societies
This article is based on a literature review that integrates history, institutions and culture to address the following research questions. First, how did human resource management (HRM) progress during post-colonial Ghana? Second, what factors are likely to undermine the advancement of HRM practices in Ghana? Finally, what are the implications for HRM practice and theory? This article identified several factors originating from the economic and …
Family-friendly support programs and work family conflict among Indonesian higher education employees
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the effectiveness of family-friendly programs at the workplace in the Indonesian higher education sector. The focus is the impact that these programs have on employees’ work family conflict. Design/methodology/approach – A survey of academic and non-academic staff from 30 higher education institutions across Indonesia participated in the research. A total of 159 completed questionnaires from 109 a…
Pathways from Casual Employment to Economic Security
Will Deregulating the Labor Market in Australia Improve the Employment COnditions of Women
This article traces the development of policies designed to reduce gender workforce inequality in Australia. In contrast to earlier centralized and collective approaches, current strategy is founded on individualism and direct workplace bargaining. The location of reform is now the enterprise, with direct bargaining replacing collective standards. Current policy developments have seen gender subsumed under market imperfections and family responsi…
Ideational frameworks in integrated language learning
Network analysis as a method for the evaluation of service delivery systems
Decent work for sustainable development in post‐crisis Nepal
Although the Decent Work agenda has received significant attention in the context of sustainable development, the formulation and implementation of appropriate social policies in developing countries remain an underexplored subject. This article responds to this gap and traces country‐specific Decent Work related policies and programs in Nepal—which is recovering from two major crises: a decade‐long armed conflict that ended in 2006 as well as th…
Graduate work-readiness challenges in the Asia-Pacific region and the role of HRM
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to focus on graduate work-readiness challenges in three Asia Pacific economies (Malaysia, Indonesia and Australia), and the roles of three main stakeholders (government, employers and industry) in the process. The intention of the paper is to design a stakeholder-oriented HRM model to address the identified graduate work-readiness challenges. Design/methodology/approach A qualitative triangulation method compr…
Voices from higher up the ladder
This paper focuses on an under‐researched employee category in the call centre literature—the team leader. The paper, drawing on data from nine A ustralian call centres, finds that the team leader role is integral to the effectiveness of call centres, yet it is a role that consists of considerable complexity and contradictions. The research demonstrates the critical role performed by team leaders: coach, mentor, trainer, performance evaluator, co…
Temporary and Casual
In a recent article in Work, Employment 6Society (Campbell and Burgess 2001), we examine the position of Australia in cross-national comparisons of temporary employment. Conventional analyses join together data on 'temporary' employment from varied OECD countries with Australian data on 'casual' employment. Australia appears in such analyses as a dramatic example of a high level and a rapid trend of growth in temporary employment, perched at the …
Unemployment, Human Rights and a Full Employment Policy in Australia
(1998). Unemployment, Human Rights and a Full Employment Policy in Australia. Australian Journal of Human Rights: Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 76-94
Common codes for mainstream ESL support across the curriculum
Personal and Bibliographical
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The Art of the Bagpipe
Network analysis as a method for the evaluation of service delivery systems
The Art of the Highland bagpipe
John Burgess
The Accord, Wages Policy and Social Security
The Accord remains the key policy commitment of the Government. Whilst the operation of the Accord encompasses many policy areas, in practice the Accord has been fundamentally a wages policy. As such, other policy commitments of the Accord, such as those in the area of social security, have become secondary to the maintenance of a sustainable wages policy which produces the ‘correct’ macroeconomic outcomes. In this context two ‘objective’ social …
The Accord and Productivity in the Australian Manufacturing Sector
Productivity enhancement is at the forefront of the current programmes of microeconomic reform and award restructuring. However, the combination of the effects of the Accord, high real interest rates and restrictive demand management policies are constraining labour productivity growth. Technical progress in the Accord period has been largely capital augmenting, a reversal of earlier trends. The implication is that productivity growth is likely t…
Max Weber and Thomas Mann
Ideational frameworks in integrated language learning
Common codes for mainstream ESL support across the curriculum
Unemployment, Human Rights and a Full Employment Policy in Australia
(1998). Unemployment, Human Rights and a Full Employment Policy in Australia. Australian Journal of Human Rights: Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 76-94
Phonology and pronunciation in integrated language teaching and teacher education
Job Security in Australia
An examination of the discussion surrounding aspects of job security in Australia in light of the apparently conflicting evidence and interpretations of the prevailing trends. Notions of job security need to move beyond the narrow perception of a link to actual or expected job duration. After a discussion of why job security is of policy interest, the various definitions and interpretations of the concept are reviewed. This leads to a considerati…
Will Deregulating the Labor Market in Australia Improve the Employment COnditions of Women
This article traces the development of policies designed to reduce gender workforce inequality in Australia. In contrast to earlier centralized and collective approaches, current strategy is founded on individualism and direct workplace bargaining. The location of reform is now the enterprise, with direct bargaining replacing collective standards. Current policy developments have seen gender subsumed under market imperfections and family responsi…
Casual Employment in Australia and Temporary Employment in Europe
Labour market analysis conventionally distinguishes amongst employees according to whether their contract of employment is ‘permanent’ or ‘temporary’. The permanent contract of employment, best understood as a contract for an indefinite term, is the central form. It has served as the crucial pivot in the development of ‘industrial citizenship’ during much of the twentieth century. Most advanced capitalist societies, apart from isolated exceptions…
Temporary and Casual
In a recent article in Work, Employment 6Society (Campbell and Burgess 2001), we examine the position of Australia in cross-national comparisons of temporary employment. Conventional analyses join together data on 'temporary' employment from varied OECD countries with Australian data on 'casual' employment. Australia appears in such analyses as a dramatic example of a high level and a rapid trend of growth in temporary employment, perched at the …
Focus on grammatical form
Templum Divi Traiani Parthici et Plotinae
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Affirmative action or managing diversity
Equal employment opportunity policies were introduced in Australia in the 1980s in response to women's disadvantaged workforce position. Australia's unique form of affirmative action was underpinned by legislation, and aimed to promote gender equity in the workplace via employer action. Throughout the 1990s there has been a policy shift away from collectivism towards individualism, and away from externally driven social programmes at the workplac…
On Anti-Anti-Realism
Looking Again at Pompey's Theater
Continuing the work of our first season in the Theater of Pompey in 2002, our second excavation season (July-August 2005) revealed a layer of travertine slabs at 10.38 masl, which was probably a section of the foundation. We also investigated the area around an ancient pier, one of the pair between the excavation area and the passage under the stairs/seats that led to the Temple of Venus Victrix. By calculating the depth of the pier, we located t…
Pathways from Casual Employment to Economic Security
Poland, 1980–1984
The late Francis Stuart, the first Australian Ambassador to be resident in Poland, wrote an interesting book about his long career in the Foreign Service. Towards Coming of Age was published in 1989 and Stuart's reflections on his last post abroad, to Poland, included the following: It is fanciful to believe that the Soviet leadership would ever question the infallibility of their official doctrine or relinquish the glacis of subordinate states p…
Flexible employment, flexible eating and health risks
Over the last 30 years, the risks to public health from working conditions have subtly shifted in line with new economic regimes, notably the shift towards contractualist, individualised market driven and ‘flexible’ regulation of employment associated with the neo-liberal project. Yet, the resulting transformation in temporal schedules has occurred without due consideration of potential health impacts. We contend that contemporary employment poli…
Voices from higher up the ladder
This paper focuses on an under‐researched employee category in the call centre literature—the team leader. The paper, drawing on data from nine A ustralian call centres, finds that the team leader role is integral to the effectiveness of call centres, yet it is a role that consists of considerable complexity and contradictions. The research demonstrates the critical role performed by team leaders: coach, mentor, trainer, performance evaluator, co…
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