Work and Organisational Studies - Internet Guide

Coaching Psychology
Human Resources
Industrial Relations / Unions
Labour History
Management
Organisational Behavior

Coaching Psychology

Association for Coaching
Aims to be the leading membership association for professional coaches.
url: http://www.associationforcoaching.com/home/index.htm

Australian Psychological Society Interest Group
Coaching Psychology.
url: http://www.psychology.org.au/units/interest%5Fgroups/coaching/

Department of Psychology, City University London
Coaching Psychology Unit.
url: http://www.city.ac.uk/psychology/research/CoachPsych/CoachPsych.html

School of Psychology, University of Sydney
The Coaching Psychology Unit.
url: http://www.psych.usyd.edu.au/coach/

Human Resources

Australian Human Resources Institute
The Australian Human Resources Institute is a human resources professional body.
url: http://www.ahri.com.au/

WageNet
WageNet provides information about wages and conditions of employment in Australia for work that is covered by federal awards and agreements.
url: http://www.wagenet.gov.au/

SHRM online
The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) is the world's largest association devoted to human resource management. Representing more than 190,000 individual members, the Society's mission is to serve the needs of HR professionals by providing the most essential and comprehensive resources available. The Society's mission is also to advance the human resource profession to ensure that HR is recognized as an essential partner in developing and executing organizational strategy.
url: http://www.shrm.org/

Research Institute for Business and Management, Manchester Metropolitan University
Working Paper Series - Papers: This resource contains working papers outlining areas of research undertaken by MMU Research. Papers can be downloaded in Adobe PDF format.
url: http://www.mbs.ac.uk/research/working-papers.aspx

Industrial Relations / Unions

Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ACCI)
The Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry is the peak council of Australian business associations.
url: http://www.acci.asn.au/

Workplace Research Centre (ACIRRT)
Australian Centre for Industrial Relations Research & Training
acirrt, based at the University of Sydney, is one of Australia’s leading, multi-disciplinary, research and training organisations. We monitor and analyse the changing nature of work.
url: http://www.acirrt.com/

Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU)
url: http://www.actu.asn.au/

AustLII Workplace Relations Law Links
url: http://www.worldlii.org/catalog/55965.html

Australian Industrial Relations Commission (AIR)
Provides the latest AIRC decisions, awards, transcripts and related information.
url: http://www.airc.gov.au/

Australian Trade Union Archives (ATUA)
Australian Trade Union Archives [ATUA] is an online gateway for researchers and scholars of labour history, designed to link together historical detail, archival resources, published material and current information about Australian industrial organisations, mainly including trade unions and also employer bodies.
url: http://www.atua.org.au/

Employment Law
Parliament of Australia, Parliamentary Library, Law Internet Resources: links to internet resources and documents in the area of federal industrial law, and to other guides and directories which contain material on State, Territory and overseas law.
url: http://www.aph.gov.au/library/intguide/law/industriallaw.htm

EOWA Australian Census of Women In Leadership
The Australian Census of Women in Leadership measures the status of women on boards and women executive managers in Australia's top 200 organisations listed on the Australian Stock Exchange. .
url: http://www.eowa.gov.au/Australian_Women_In_Leadership_Census.asp

Human Rights & Equal Opportunity Commission
HREOC helps you to ‘Work out your Rights’.
url: http://www.hreoc.gov.au/

International Labour Organization (ILO)
The International Labour Organization is the UN specialized agency which seeks the promotion of social justice and internationally recognized human and labour rights.
url: http://www.ilo.org/

NSW Industrial Relations Commission (IRC)
The Industrial Relations Commission conciliates and arbitrates to resolve industrial disputes, sets conditions of employment and fixes wages and salaries by making industrial awards, approves enterprise agreements and decides claims of unfair dismissal.
url: http://www.lawlink.nsw.gov.au/irc

Office for Women
The Australian Government Office for Women (OfW) is a policy advisory unit and a division of the Department of Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs in Australia.
url: http://www.ofw.facs.gov.au/index2.htm

Parliamentary Library New South Wales
Research Papers.
url: http://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/prod/parlment/publications.nsf/V3ListRPSubject

Parliamentary Library Parliament of Australia
Publications.
Click on search Publications to search your topic.
url: http://www.aph.gov.au/library/pubs/index.htm

Parliamentary Library Parliament of Australia
Law Internet Resources and Employment Law Guide.
contains links to parliamentary resources relating to passage of the Workplace Relations Amendment (Work Choices) Act 2005.
url: http://www.aph.gov.au/library/pubs/index.htm

U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)
The Bureau of Labor Statistics is the principal fact-finding agency for the Federal Government in the broad field of labor economics and statistics.
url: http://stats.bls.gov/

Labour History

Management

Australian Institute of Management (AIM)
Australia's largest professional body for managers.
url: http://www.aim.com.au/

RePUB: electronic publications in the key field of Economics and Management at Erasmus University, Rotterdam. Includes the dEAR repository which contains series produced by international academic institutes at the Erasmus School of Economics (ESE), and provides research results of the Erasmus University of Rotterdam publicly available without charge.
url: http://eps.eur.nl/em

Organisational Behaviour

Other useful sites

Australian WorkPlace
Portal to information and services relating to employment and workplace relations in Australia.
url: http://www.workplace.gov.au/

Institute of Public Affairs (IPA)
The IPA is an independent, non-profit public policy think tank. Visit their website for papers, commentary and issue analysis, as well as information on upcoming events around the country.
url: http://www.ipa.org.au/

Berkeley Law & Economics Working Papers
url: http://www.bepress.com/blewp/

IDEAS
The Internet Documents in Economics Access Service (IDEAS) is a service providing information about working papers and published research to the economics profession.
url: http://ideas.repec.org/

EthicsWeb
Access to websites and publications concerning ethics within the business environment.
url: http://www.ethicsweb.ca/

QuickMBA
Information about business law, entrepreneurship, management, etc.
url: http://www.quickmba.com/

Free Web Law
url:http://www.library.usyd.edu.au/libraries/law/freeweblaw.html
Links courtesy of University of Sydney Law Library

The Work Foundation
url:http://www.theworkfoundation.com/index.aspx
A british think tank dealing with work issues.

Any questions, suggestions or comments should be directed to:

Fiona McCay
Liaison Librarian, Work and Organisational Studies
phone: 02 9351 3560
fax: 02 9351 4328
email: wos@library.usyd.edu.au

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