Workplace Reform in the Healthcare Industry

PAULINE STANTON is an Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Management at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia. She has a background in industrial relations, health care management and project management in Australia and the United Kingdom. Her present research areas include health sector employment relations and human resource management effectiveness. EILEEN WILLIS is Senior Lecturer in the School of Medicine at Flinders University, South Australia. Her research interests include theoretical approaches to working time, workload measuring tools, enterprise bargaining and

This book focuses on the relationship between health sector and industrial relations reforms and the impact these have had on employment relations in Australia since 1990.This book focuses on the relationship between health sector and industrial relations reforms and the impact these have had on employment relations in Australia since 1990. The book adds to the international literature on New Public Management with a distinctively Australian focus and synthesizes the impact of health sector and industrial relations reforms on health care management and work practices. It illustrates that New Public Management practices have been implemented creatively at both macro and micro levels. The book provides context to the changing work practices in the health care sector.