Macquarie Graduate School of Management Research Office & Labour-Management Studies Foundation would like to invite you to a seminar to be presented by

Professor Mick Marchington
University of Manchester

The Impact of Contracting and Re-contracting on Employment Relations

This seminar draws on research conducted across eight case study networks which analysed the way in which employment was being fragmented across organisational boundaries. The cases included agencies, public-private partnerships, supply chain links, franchises and alliances. Rather than seeing these as good for efficiency and enhanced employment opportunities, the research found considerable evidence of increased problems in the management of employment. In addition to work being fragmented, pay systems were disordered, skills were lost and employee voice became disconnected. This raises major questions about the efficacy of such ventures both in the short and the longer-term.

Date: Wednesday 2 March 2005
Time: 4.30 - 5.30pm with light refreshments at the end
Venue: Macquarie Graduate School of Management
RSVP: MGSM Research Office email: research@mgsm.edu.au

Please note admission and refreshments are free
Parking is available on site - ask at the boom gate.

The Presenter

Mick Marchington is Professor of Human Resource Management at Manchester Business School, The University of Manchester. He has published widely on HRM and industrial relations and is particularly well known for his work on employee involvement and voice. He is co-ordinator of the IIRA HRM study group, a Companion of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, and is soon to take over as Editor of the Human Resource Management Journal.

The Labour-Management Studies Foundation

The Labour-Management Studies Foundation (LMSF), jointly hosted by Macquarie Graduate School of Management (MGSM) and Division of Economic & Financial Studies (EFS) was established in 1983. Its board comprises representatives from private sector enterprises, unions and Macquarie University. It seeks to present seminars, courses and conferences and encourages research in the broad field of managing people.