Getting to resolution : turning conflict into collaboration [book]
Author: Stewart Levine

"Adversarial models for dealing with conflict waste time, money, and energy. They satisfy no one, so the conflict ends up resurfacing in a different form, Stewart Levine's "resolutionary" alternative goes beyond compromise and capitulation. He offers ten guiding principles that stop anger and resentment cold and enable both sides to return to productive, satisfying, functional relationships. Levine's seven-step conversational process fosters dignity and integrity, optimizes resources, and allows all concerns to be voiced, honored, and woven into the resolution. This second edition has been thoroughly revised with new examples; new tools; new material about communication, trust building, and virtual collaboration; and a more global outlook."

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Duties and responsibilities of directors and officers [book]

Author: Robert Baxt

Chapters include: The duties of directors : a broad overview -- The fundamental duties of directors : duty to act -- The fundamental duties of directors : duty to act with care and diligence -- Day-to-day duties -- Insolvent trading -- Insurance, forgiveness by shareholders and by the courts -- Remedies for shareholders : common (general) law and statutory -- Traps for the unwary director.

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Ford's principles of corporations law, 14th ed. [book]

Authors: R. P. Austin & I. M. Ramsay

"Responds to recent Australian Commonwealth legislation, including legislation dealing with rights issues, the powers of the Takeovers Panel, the rights and obligations of external administrators of companies, and cross-border insolvency." - cover.
Sections include: Companies and Company Law, A Company as a Corporate Entity, The Law of Corporate Governance, Corporate Liability, Corporate Finance, Corporate Control and Restructuring, and External Administration.

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Call number: 346.94066 FOR 2010

Effective recruitment and selection practices [book]

Authors: Alan Nankervis, Robert Compton & Bill Morrissey

"Provides practical guidance on the critical issues surrounding the areas of: policies & procedures; communication and liaison with line managers; internal recruitment; references and referees; entitlement to work in Australia. ... Incorporates changes in legislation, such as transition from Work Choices to Forward with Fairness, and includes changes and developments in practices due to technology, workplace trends and the current economic situation." - cover.

Find it at: 658.311 EFF 2009 or Click here, and request a copy from the library!

The Dark side of behaviour at work : understanding and avoiding employees leaving, thieving, and deceiving [book]

Authors: John Taylor & Adrian Furnham

"This book is about the cause, manifestations and consequences of individual infidelity to the employer. It is concerned with why employees become angry, disgruntled and spiteful towards their employer and how they attempt to seek to damage or take revenge for their feelings. ... It aims to help people identify and manage those who are likely to cause considerable damage to the organizations that they work for through theft, sabotage, fraud or a range of other counterproductive behaviours." - page 1.

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Codifying Culture: indigenous Australian art commercial code of conduct (journal article)
by Lan Pham and Terri Janke
from Indigenous Law Bulletin, Vol 7 No 13 July/August 2009
"The key recommendation of a 2007 Inquiry was the establishment of an Indigenous Art Commercial Code of Conduct to set minimum national standards for appropriate ethical trade. ... The draft has been established as a voluntary guideline and is intended to be used in the formation of agreements between artists, agents and dealers. "
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Job protection legislation and productivity growth in OECD countries (journal article)
by Andrea Bassanini, Luca Nunziata and Danielle Venn
from Economic Policy, Vol 24 No 58, April 2009, pp. 349-402
"We examine the effect of dismissal regulation on productivity in the OECD, using annual cross-country aggregate data on the stringency of employment protection legislation and industry-level data on productivity from 1982 to 2003. Our empirical results suggest that mandatory dismissal regulations have a depressing impact on productivity growth in industries where layoff restrictions are more likely to be binding. By contrast, we find no evidence of a productivity effect of regulations concerning temporary contracts, which suggests that partial reforms, facilitating the use of fixed-term and atypical contracts, are unlikely to have an important impact on efficiency and technological change and cannot therefore be a substitute for comprehensive reforms whereby dismissal restrictions for open-ended contracts are also weakened. "