- Title
- Addressing the productivity challenge?: Government-sponsored partnership programs in Australia and New Zealand
- Creator
- Macneil, J.; Haworth, N.; Rasmussen, E.
- Relation
- The International Journal of Human Resource Management Vol. 22, Issue 18, p. 3813-3829
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09585192.2011.622926
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2011
- Description
- In this article we investigate the role of soft regulation in the implementation of government industrial relations policy. Specifically, we examine two government programs to foster workplace reform through partnership; the Best Practice Program in Australia from 1991 to 1996, and government interventions from 1999 culminating in the creation of the Partnership Resource Centre (PRC) in 2005 in New Zealand. We conclude that both programs have been successful in generating change in directly participating organisations. Despite identifying several factors which are likely to help embed a partnership approach, the evidence in our cases suggest that changes are difficult to sustain, or to diffuse to other workplaces. We conclude that in Australia and New Zealand soft regulation may have become the only acceptable model for government to promote workplace partnership.
- Subject
- comparative industrial relations; government program; high performance work systems; partnership; soft regulation; state
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1057418
- Identifier
- uon:16184
- Identifier
- ISSN:0958-5192
- Language
- eng
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