Keith Townsend
Biographic Data
| ID | 296868 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Keith Townsend |
| GIVEN NAMES | Keith |
| FAMILY NAME | Townsend |
| SIGNATURE | TOWNSEND K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Griffith University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0038-242X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Psychosocial Hazards in the Northern Territory Building and Construction Industry: A Profile of Job Demands and Job Resources in a Jurisdiction and Industry with High Rates of Suicide
The work environment for building workers in Australia's Northern Territory (NT) is characterised by concerningly high rates of distress and suicide at both a jurisdictional and an industry level. Work-related psychosocial hazards are known antecedents of work-related distress and suicide, and more research is required to understand how these hazards impact workers in this unique building context. This paper examines the unique work environment i…
Climate Migration: Adding Fuel to the Ethnocentric Fire
While conflict, crime, and terrorism are persistent geopolitical and human security threats, climate change can be a threat multiplier, affecting geopolitical stability on local, regional, and global scales. This paper provides a qualitative assessment of the literature and geopolitical trends related to climate change, migration, and ethnocentrism in order to evaluate the current situation and future potentials for climate-driven conflict, crime…
The role of peer‐to‐peer voice in severe work environments: Organisational facilitators and barriers
Encouraging and facilitating employee voice among frontline employees is important in organisations to draw out problems and issues that can potentially be addressed and mitigated by organisational policies and practices. Using Conservation of Resources theory, this study focuses on paramedics and the formal and informal voice mechanisms used to safeguard their well‐being. We observe that paramedics are often unwilling to use formal support mecha…
Skilled migrant employees' perceptions of support from line managers
Purpose This paper explores the experiences of non-English-speaking background (NESB) skilled employees working in Australian workplaces, their perceptions of managers' actions and how a lack of employee involvement and participation (EIP) practices and performance appraisal (PA) is perceived regarding career progression. Design/methodology/approach This exploratory research project is based on 26 semi-structured interviews with skilled migrant N…
Reporting and Justifying the Number of Interview Participants in Organization and Workplace Research
In this paper we examine established practice regarding the reporting, justification and number of interview participants chosen within organization and workplace studies. For such qualitative research there is a paucity of discussion across the social sciences, the topic receiving far less attention than its centrality warrants. We analysed 798 articles published in 2003 and 2013 in ten top and second tier academic journals, identifying 248 stud…
Handbook of Research on Managing Managers
The Future of Employment Relations: New Paradigms, New Developments
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Labouring for leisure? Achieving work-life balance through compressed working weeks
Flexible work practices spreading work times across the entire week have reduced the time to engage in leisure activities and for some have compounded the problem of a lack of defined break between work weeks. This study examines time spent outside of the workplace through a multiple case study of working time and leisure in the construction industry. A framework of synchronous leisure is used to examine the interplay of work and non-work arrange…
Full Metal Jarhead: Shifting the Horizon of Expectation
Method in the Madness: Research Stories You Won't Read in Textbooks
Method in the madness: Research Stories You Won't Read in Textbooks
WorkChoices, ImageChoices and the marketing of new industrial relations legislation
This article takes a critical discourse approach to one aspect of the Australian WorkChoices industrial relations legislation: the government's major advertisement published in national newspapers in late 2005 and released simultaneously as a 16-page booklet.This strategic move was the initial stage of one of the largest 'information' campaigns ever mounted by an Australian government, costing more than $AUD137 million. This article analyse the s…
Mobility and Technology in the Workplace
Mobile phones can be categorized as personal technologies and, as with other devices of this genre, increased use leads to increased reliance upon the technology (Sørensen and Pica 2003). In addition, mobile phones create opportunities, or at least the illusion of being able to create opportunities to ‘make time’ through providing temporal freedoms for the user. For example, if a someone is driving, they can return work-related calls, therefore m…
Electronic surveillance and cohesive teams: Room for resistance in an Australian call centre
A number of employees individually and cooperatively resist the controls of the electronic surveillance systems in the PowerGrid call centre. However, this is not the case in all teams. One team is faced with a labour process that directs their resistance to be focused directly at management, rather than at management via the machine
Electronic surveillance and cohesive teams: Room for resistance in an Australian call centre
A number of employees individually and cooperatively resist the controls of the electronic surveillance systems in the PowerGrid call centre. However, this is not the case in all teams. One team is faced with a labour process that directs their resistance to be focused directly at management, rather than at management via the machine
Labouring for leisure? Achieving work-life balance through compressed working weeks
Flexible work practices spreading work times across the entire week have reduced the time to engage in leisure activities and for some have compounded the problem of a lack of defined break between work weeks. This study examines time spent outside of the workplace through a multiple case study of working time and leisure in the construction industry. A framework of synchronous leisure is used to examine the interplay of work and non-work arrange…
Skilled migrant employees' perceptions of support from line managers
Purpose This paper explores the experiences of non-English-speaking background (NESB) skilled employees working in Australian workplaces, their perceptions of managers' actions and how a lack of employee involvement and participation (EIP) practices and performance appraisal (PA) is perceived regarding career progression. Design/methodology/approach This exploratory research project is based on 26 semi-structured interviews with skilled migrant N…
WorkChoices, ImageChoices and the marketing of new industrial relations legislation
This article takes a critical discourse approach to one aspect of the Australian WorkChoices industrial relations legislation: the government's major advertisement published in national newspapers in late 2005 and released simultaneously as a 16-page booklet.This strategic move was the initial stage of one of the largest 'information' campaigns ever mounted by an Australian government, costing more than $AUD137 million. This article analyse the s…
Electronic surveillance and cohesive teams: Room for resistance in an Australian call centre
A number of employees individually and cooperatively resist the controls of the electronic surveillance systems in the PowerGrid call centre. However, this is not the case in all teams. One team is faced with a labour process that directs their resistance to be focused directly at management, rather than at management via the machine
Mobility and Technology in the Workplace
Mobile phones can be categorized as personal technologies and, as with other devices of this genre, increased use leads to increased reliance upon the technology (Sørensen and Pica 2003). In addition, mobile phones create opportunities, or at least the illusion of being able to create opportunities to ‘make time’ through providing temporal freedoms for the user. For example, if a someone is driving, they can return work-related calls, therefore m…
Method in the Madness: Research Stories You Won't Read in Textbooks
Method in the madness: Research Stories You Won't Read in Textbooks
WorkChoices, ImageChoices and the marketing of new industrial relations legislation
This article takes a critical discourse approach to one aspect of the Australian WorkChoices industrial relations legislation: the government's major advertisement published in national newspapers in late 2005 and released simultaneously as a 16-page booklet.This strategic move was the initial stage of one of the largest 'information' campaigns ever mounted by an Australian government, costing more than $AUD137 million. This article analyse the s…
The Future of Employment Relations: New Paradigms, New Developments
EPUB
Labouring for leisure? Achieving work-life balance through compressed working weeks
Flexible work practices spreading work times across the entire week have reduced the time to engage in leisure activities and for some have compounded the problem of a lack of defined break between work weeks. This study examines time spent outside of the workplace through a multiple case study of working time and leisure in the construction industry. A framework of synchronous leisure is used to examine the interplay of work and non-work arrange…
Full Metal Jarhead: Shifting the Horizon of Expectation
Handbook of Research on Managing Managers
Reporting and Justifying the Number of Interview Participants in Organization and Workplace Research
In this paper we examine established practice regarding the reporting, justification and number of interview participants chosen within organization and workplace studies. For such qualitative research there is a paucity of discussion across the social sciences, the topic receiving far less attention than its centrality warrants. We analysed 798 articles published in 2003 and 2013 in ten top and second tier academic journals, identifying 248 stud…
The role of peer‐to‐peer voice in severe work environments: Organisational facilitators and barriers
Encouraging and facilitating employee voice among frontline employees is important in organisations to draw out problems and issues that can potentially be addressed and mitigated by organisational policies and practices. Using Conservation of Resources theory, this study focuses on paramedics and the formal and informal voice mechanisms used to safeguard their well‐being. We observe that paramedics are often unwilling to use formal support mecha…
Skilled migrant employees' perceptions of support from line managers
Purpose This paper explores the experiences of non-English-speaking background (NESB) skilled employees working in Australian workplaces, their perceptions of managers' actions and how a lack of employee involvement and participation (EIP) practices and performance appraisal (PA) is perceived regarding career progression. Design/methodology/approach This exploratory research project is based on 26 semi-structured interviews with skilled migrant N…
Climate Migration: Adding Fuel to the Ethnocentric Fire
While conflict, crime, and terrorism are persistent geopolitical and human security threats, climate change can be a threat multiplier, affecting geopolitical stability on local, regional, and global scales. This paper provides a qualitative assessment of the literature and geopolitical trends related to climate change, migration, and ethnocentrism in order to evaluate the current situation and future potentials for climate-driven conflict, crime…
Psychosocial Hazards in the Northern Territory Building and Construction Industry: A Profile of Job Demands and Job Resources in a Jurisdiction and Industry with High Rates of Suicide
The work environment for building workers in Australia's Northern Territory (NT) is characterised by concerningly high rates of distress and suicide at both a jurisdictional and an industry level. Work-related psychosocial hazards are known antecedents of work-related distress and suicide, and more research is required to understand how these hazards impact workers in this unique building context. This paper examines the unique work environment i…
Business (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Public relations (5 works) · Digital Economy and Work Transformation (3 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (3 works) · Labor Movements and Unions (3 works) · Research (3 works)