Emerging strategic people management of coalmines in Central Queensland

Management Research News

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 302-313

  Zheng, Connie ^a   Milia, Lee ^a   Rolfe, John ^a   Bretherton, Phil ^a  

^a CENTRAL QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Business performance; Coal mining; Human resource management; Strategic management

Indexed keywords

EID: 84992929089     PISSN: 01409174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01409170710736338     Document Type: Article

References (57)

1. Acutt, B., Hyland, P. and Windeknecht, K. (2004), “Regional employment trends: The challenge for strategic employment relations”, Proceeding of the 12th Annual Conference of the International Employment Relations Association: Regionalism and Globalization: The Challenge for Employment Relations, Central Queensland University.
2. Atkinson, J. and Meager, N. (1985), Changing Work Patterns, National Economic Development Office, London, pp. 2-11.
3. Barry, M., Bowden, B. and Brosnan, P. (1998), The Fallacy of Flexibility: Workplace Reform in the Queensland Open Cut Coal Industry, Allen & Unwin, Sydney.
4. Barry, M. and Waring, P. (2000), “Shafted: labour productivity and Australian coal miners”, Journal of Australian Political Economy, Vol. 44, pp. 89-112.
5. Bartel, A.P. (2004), “Human resource management and organizational performance: evidence from retail banking”, Industrial and Labour Relations Review, Vol. 57 No. 2, pp. 181-195.
6. Bartram, R. (2005), “Small firms, big ideas: the adoption of human resource management in Australian small firms”, Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources, Vol. 43 No. 1, pp. 137-148.
7. Becker, B.E., Huselid, M.A., and Ulrich, D. (2001), The HRM Scorecard: Linking People, Strategy and Performance, Harvard Business School Press, Boston, MA.
8. Beer, M. (1997) “The transformation of the human resource function: resolving the tension between a traditional administrative and a new strategic role”, Human Resource Management Journal, Vol. 36 No. 1, pp. 49-56.
9. Beer, M., Spector, B., Lawrence, P.R., Mills, D.Q. and Walton, R.E. (1984), Managing Human Assets: The Groundbreaking Harvard Business School Program, The Free Press, Macmillan, Inc., New York, NY.
10. Bird, A. and Beechler, S. (2002), “The link between business strategy and international human resource management practices”, in Ed. Mendenhall, M. and Ed. Oddou, G. (Eds), Reading and Cases in International Human Resource Management, South-Western College, Cincinnati, pp. 70-80.
11. Blount, Y., Castleman, T. and Swatman, P.M.C. (2005), “E-commerce, human resource strategies, and competitive advantage: two australian banking case studies”, International Journal of Electronic Commerce, Vol. 9 No. 3, pp. 73-84.
12. Bowden, B. (2003), “Regulating outsourcing: the use of contractors on the Central Queensland coalfields, 1974-2003”, Labour and Industry, Vol. 14, pp. 41-57.
13. Boxall, P. and Purcell, J. (2003), Strategy and Human Resource Management, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke.
14. Cascio, W.F. (2003), Managing Human Resources: Productivity, Quality of Work Life, and Profits, 6th ed., McGraw-Hill, Boston, MA.
15. CIT (1988), Decision-Coal Mining Industry (Award Restructuring), Sydney.
16. De Cieri, H. and Kramar, R. (2003), Human Resource Management in Australia: Strategy People Performance, McGraw Hill, Boston, MA.
17. Department of Natural Resources and Mines (2005), Newsletter, December, available at: www.nrm.qld.gov.au (accessed on 1 March 2006).
18. Devanna, M.A., Fombrun, C.J. and Tichy, N.M. (1984), “A framework for strategic human resource management”, in Ed. Fombrun, C.J., Ed. Tichy, N.M. and Ed. Devanna, M.A. (Eds), Strategic Human Resource Management, Chapter 3, John Wiley and Sons, New York, NY, pp. 33-56.
19. Di Milia, L. and Bowden, B. (2006), “Unanticipated safety outcomes: shiftwork and drive-in, drive-out workforce's in Queensland's Bowen Basin”, Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources.
20. Dowling, P. (2005), “Human resource management and economic success: an Australian perspective”, Management Revue, Vol. 16 No. 2, pp. 202-212.
21. Gratton, L., Hope-Hailey, V., Stiles, P. and Truss, C. (1999), “Linking individual performance to business strategy: the people process model”, Human Resource Management, Vol. 38 No. 1, pp. 17-31.
22. Guest, D.E. (1987), “Human resource management and industrial relations”, Journal of Management Studies, Vol. 25 No. 5, pp. 503-521.
23. Guest, D.E. (1997), “Human resource management and performance: a review and research agenda”, International Journal of Human Resource Management, Vol. 8 No. 3, pp. 263-276.
24. Guest, D., Michie, J., Conway, N. and Sheehan, M. (2003), “Human resource management and corporate performance in the UK”, British Journal of Industrial Relations, Vol. 41 No. 2, pp. 291-304.
25. Guthrie, J.P. (2001), “High-involvement work practices, turnover, and productivity: evidence from New Zealand”, Academy of Management Journal, Vol. 44 No. 1, pp. 180-190.
26. Horstman, B. (1999), “Decentralised and deregulated Australian industrial relations: the effects on HRM and IR in small enterprises”, Employee Relations, Vol. 21 No. 3, pp. 325-336.
27. Huselid, M.A. (1994), “Documenting HR's effect on company performance”, HR Magazine, Vol. 39 No. 1, pp. 79-84.
28. Huselid, M.A. (1995), “The impact of human resource management practices on turnover, productivity, and corporate financial performance”, Academy of Management Journal, Vol. 38 No. 3, pp. 635-670.
29. Huselid, M.A., Jackson, S.E. and Schuler, R.S. (1997), “Technical and strategic human resource management effectiveness as determinants of firm performance”, Academy of Management Journal, Vol. 40 No. 1, pp. 171-188.
30. Kane, B. and Palmer, I. (1995), “Strategic HRM or managing the employment relationship?”, International Journal of Manpower, Vol. 16 No. 5, pp. 6-22.
31. Kaye, L. (2000), “Balancing strategies for competitive advantage – a view from Australia”, Human Resource Management International Digest, Vol. 8 No. 3, pp. 26-29.
32. Kotey, B. and Sheridan, A. (2004), “Changing HRM practices with firm growth”, Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development, Vol. 11 No. 4, pp. 474-489.
33. Legge, K. (1995), Human Resource Management: Rhetoric and Realities, Macmillan, London.
34. Leopold, J., Harris, L. and Watson, T. (2005), The Strategic Managing of Human Resource, Prentice Hall, Harlow.
35. Lewis, G., Morkel, A., Hubbard, G., Davenport, S. and Stockport, G. (1999), Australian and New Zealand Strategic Management: Concept, Context and Cases, 2nd ed., Prentice Hall, Sydney.
36. May, T. (1997), Social Research: Issues, Methods and Process, Open University Press, Buckingham.
37. Miles, R.E. and Snow, C.C. (1978), Organizational Strategy, Structure and Process, McGraw-Hill, New York, NY.
38. Miles, B., Marshall, C., Rolfe, J. and Noonan, S. (2004), Attraction and Retention of Professional Services in Regional, Rural and Remote Queensland, Queensland Department of State Development and Innovation.
39. Moore, B. and Gardner, S. (2004), “HR managers, SHRM and the Australian metal mining sector: embracing the Unitarist Vision”, Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resource, Vol. 42 No. 3, pp. 274-285.
40. Nankervis, A., Compton, R. and Baird, M. (2005), Human Resource Management: Strategies and Processes, 5th ed., Thomson, Southbank, Victoria.
41. Ngo, H.Y., Turban, D., Lau, C.M. and Lai, S.Y. (1998), “Human resource practices and firm performance of multinational corporation: influence of country of origin”, International Journal of Human Resource Management, Vol. 9 No. 4, pp. 632-652.
42. Nils, T. (1997), “The management of individualism in an Australian mining industry”, Employee Relations, Vol. 19 No. 4, pp. 337-348.
43. Paauwe, J. (2004), HRM and Performance: Achieving Long-Term Viability, Oxford University Press, New York, NY.
44. Porter, M.E. (1985), Competitive Advantage: Creating and Sustaining Superior Performance, Free Press, New York, NY.
45. Rio Tinto (1997), “Killing the goose. the urgent need for reform in Australia's black coal industry”, submission to the Productivity Commission on the Australian Black Coal Industry, Rio Tinto.
46. Rolfe, J. (2005), Regional Economic Impact Analysis: Factors influencing workforce mobility to regional mining towns: Socio-Economic Impact Assessment and Community Engagement to Reduce Conflict over Mine Operations Research Report Number 5, Centre for Social Science Research, Central Queensland University, Rockhampton.
47. Rolfe, J., Lockie, S. and Franettovich, M. (2003), Economic and Social Impacts of the Coppabella Mine on the Nebo Shire and the Mackay Region, final report prepared for Australian Premium Coal Pty. Ltd. Central Queensland University Publishing Unit, Rockhampton.
48. Stace, D. and Dunphy, D. (2001), Beyond the Boundaries: Leading and Recreating the Successful Enterprise, 2nd ed., McGraw Hill, Sydney.
49. Stavrou, E.T. and Brewster, C. (2005), “The configurational appraoch to linking strategic human resource management bundles with business performance: myth or reality?”, Management Revue, Vol. 16 No. 2, pp. 186-201.
50. Tasman Asia Pacific (1997), The Scope for Productivity Improvement in Australia's Black Coal Mining Industry, October.
51. Teo, S. (2000), “Evidence of strategic HRM linkages in eleven australian corporatised public sector organizations”, Public Personnel Management, Vol. 29 No. 4, pp. 557-574.
52. Waring, P. and Barry, M. (2001), “The changing frontier of control in coal: evidence from a decade of enterprise bargaining in the Australian black coal mining industry”, Australian Bulletin of Labour, Vol. 27 No. 3, pp. 216-237.
53. Waring, P. (2005), “Some employment relations consequences of the merger and acquisition movement in the Australian black coal mining industry 1997-2003”, Australian Bulletin of Labour, Vol. 31 No. 1, pp. 72-89.
54. Wood, S. (1999), “Human resource management and performance”, International Journal of Management Review, Vol. 1 No. 4, pp. 367-413.
55. Wooden, M., Robertson, F. and Cernaz, R. (1996), “Coal industry awards and agreements and the implications for work practices and working conditions”, Working Paper Series No. 141, National Institute of Labour Studies, Adelaide.
56. Wright, P.M., Gardner, T.M., Moynihan, L.M. and Allen, M.R. (2005), “The relationship between HR practices and firm performance: examining causal order”, Personnel Psychology, Vol. 58 No. 2, pp. 409-447.
57. Queensland Government Natural Resources and Mines (2005), Coal Industry Overview, available at: www.nrm.gld.gov.au/mines (accessed on December 2005).