This study examined differences between lawyers (n = 91) and undergraduate students (n = 120) regarding their evaluation of behavior as sexual harassment (SH) and blame attributions toward offender and victim. The current study used a cross-sectional, comparative, independent measures design. Also examined was the correlation between these perceptions and belief in a just world…
Flexibility in the workplace In Australia, the right to request flexible working arrangements are provided for in legislation under in the National Employment Standards (NES). These standards provide that certain categories of employees are able to make requests of their employer to work in a flexible manner. Employers are only able to refuse a request…
A growing number of organisations recognise that flexible work arrangements are vital to the successful recruitment and retention of their employees. Flexible work arrangements can also help employers meet their obligation to avoid discrimination against employees with disabilities, older employees and employees with family responsibilities. Flexible work arrangements can include: changing hours of work (e.g….
Abstract The study of sexual harassment is an active and exciting arena for both legal scholars and psychologists and other social scientists. Legal rulings affect the course of psychological research, and research findings in turn inform legal scholars and the courts. This special theme issue brings together 8 articles that focus on researchable issues that…
Abstract The premise of our article is that repeated exposure to antipublic sector messages affects the way people evaluate the performance of public sector organizations. More specifically, we argue that individuals’ implicit attitudes regarding public sector organizations are biased: Citizens automatically and unconsciously associate public sector organizations with inefficiency, inflexibility, and other pejoratives, and these…
This book offers new insights and understanding for both managers and academics into people’s preferred thinking styles and how they affect ways of doing things, their outcomes, and other people, both in organisations and elsewhere. The core of the theory Understanding Adaption-Innovation The Adaption-Innovation Theory is founded on the assumption that all people solve problems…
In the last 20-30 years, the notion of cultural pluralism has gained popular support and offers an alternative approach to dealing with difference. Rooted in the philosophy of multiculturalism (Spivak, 1987; Taylor, 1994), pluralism requires the the dominant culture (of either states or organisations) accepts rather than absorbs cultural differences through co-existence rather than integration. …
The article presents a discussion of issues of human resource diversity and diversity climates in organisations and develops a conceptual model of a “positive climate for diversity” (PCFD). This refers to the degree to which there is an organisational climate in which human resource diversity is valued and in which employees’ from diverse backgrounds feel…
Abstract Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether females have different perceptions of diversity management and workplace happiness compared to their male colleagues. Furthermore, the paper explores whether diversity management perceptions mediate the relationship between workplace happiness and organisational citizenship behaviour. Design/methodology/approach: A total of 260 questionnaires from a number of public…
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the role flexible work arrangements (FWA) play in diversity policies, and the reasons for/barriers to their implementation. Design/methodology/approach – Based on qualitative case study research in four large multinational service companies. Primary data were collected through senior and line-manager interviews and questionnaires. Findings – The…