TY - JOUR
T1 - Ever-Widening Ripples
T2 - The Impact of Specialist Industrial Tribunals on Management Practice
AU - Thornthwaite, Louise
PY - 1994
Y1 - 1994
N2 - While conciliation and arbitration tribunals have been at the forefront of Austral ian research on industrial relations institutions, numerous specialist tribunals enforcing individual workers' rights in employment have been virtually hidden from view. This paper examines the role of two such tribunals in New South Wales, the Government and Related Employees' Appeal Tribunal and the Equal Opportu nity Tribunal. It argues that although their most direct and public role is to resolve individuals' grievances, equally significant is the contribution of these agencies to the detailed regulation of employment relations and hence the increasing sophisti cation of labour management in public sector organizations since the late 1970s, and the institutionalization of management prerogatives and conflicts over an increasingly wide range of employment decisions.
AB - While conciliation and arbitration tribunals have been at the forefront of Austral ian research on industrial relations institutions, numerous specialist tribunals enforcing individual workers' rights in employment have been virtually hidden from view. This paper examines the role of two such tribunals in New South Wales, the Government and Related Employees' Appeal Tribunal and the Equal Opportu nity Tribunal. It argues that although their most direct and public role is to resolve individuals' grievances, equally significant is the contribution of these agencies to the detailed regulation of employment relations and hence the increasing sophisti cation of labour management in public sector organizations since the late 1970s, and the institutionalization of management prerogatives and conflicts over an increasingly wide range of employment decisions.
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U2 - 10.1177/002218569403600205
DO - 10.1177/002218569403600205
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84965372420
SN - 0022-1856
VL - 36
SP - 285
EP - 298
JO - Journal of Industrial Relations
JF - Journal of Industrial Relations
IS - 2
ER -