Dr Glenda Maconachie
Faculty of Business & Law,
School of Management
Biography
Glenda left a management position in the federal public sector to continue her tertiary studies. She began teaching industrial relations and occupational health and safety at Griffith University in 1989 before moving to QUT in 1993. Since then she has taught a range of undergraduate and postgraduate units in management, human resource management and employment relations.She has recently collaborated with colleagues at three other universities to publish the textbook Employment Relations in Australia.
Research interests
- Labour history
- Minimum standards entitlements - creation and enforcement
- Emotional labour
- Occupational health and safety/workers' compensation.
Current projects
Glenda has 2 long standing research partnerships, with Dr Jennifer Sappey (School of Social Sciences, Charles Sturt University, Bathurst) and Dr Miles Goodwin (former Director, Economics Research Branch, Parliamentary Library, Canberra), now Adjunct Professor in the School of Management, QUT.
These partnerships are researching separate industrial relations issues and their interfaces, respectively:
- consumption, body politics, strategic employer association activity, employment conditions - specifically in the Queensland health and fitness industry.
- enforcement of minimum labour standards in Australia since 1904 in the federal IR system - including consideration of regulation theory, political influence on regulatory agencies, investigation and prosecution strategies of enforcement agencies.
Glenda is also developing a research partnership with Dr Merv Morris (QUT) with their areas of interest being labour history. The IR history of Tubbo Station and BHP are part of this research focus.
Personal details
Positions
- Sessional Academic
Faculty of Business & Law,
School of Management
Research field
Business and Management
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2008
Qualifications
- PhD Commerce and Administration (Griffith University)
- BAdmin(Hons) (Griffith University)
- BAdmin (Griffith University)
Teaching
- Occupational health and safety
- Industrial relations/employment relations
Publications
- Maconachie, G. & Goodwin, M. (2011). Does institutional location protect from political influence? The case of a minimum labour standards enforcement agency in Australia. Australian Journal of Political Science, 46(1), 105–119. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/41401
- Maconachie, G. & Goodwin, M. (2010). Transforming the inspection blitz: targeted campaigns, enforcement and the Ombudsman. Labour and Industry: a journal of the social and economic relations of work, 21(1), 369–389. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/38219
- Maconachie, G. & Goodwin, M. (2010). Employer Evasion of Workers' Entitlements 1986-1995: Why, What and Whose? The Journal of Industrial Relations, 52(4), 419–437. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/38220
- Balnave, N., Brown, J., Maconachie, G. & Stone, R. (2009). Employment Relations in Australia (2nd Ed). https://eprints.qut.edu.au/30992
- Goodwin, M. & Maconachie, G. (2007). Unpaid Entitlement Recovery in the Federal Industrial Relations System: Strategy and Outcomes 1952-95. The Journal of Industrial Relations, 49(4), 523–544. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/10018
- Maconachie, G. & Goodwin, M. (2006). Recouping Wage Underpayment: Increasingly Less Likely? Australian Journal of Social Issues, 41(3), 327–342. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/21731
- Maconachie, G., (2005). Emotional Suppression to Regulated Empathy: From One Face of Control to Another. Labour and Industry: a journal of the social and economic relations of work, 16(1), 43–58. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/22061
- French, E. & Maconachie, G. (2004). Managing Equity: Structure, Policy and Justice Influences. Gender in Management: an international journal, 19(2), 98–108. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/8549
- Maconachie, G., (1997). Blood on the Rails: The Cairns-Kuranda Railway Construction and the Queensland Employers' Liability Act. Labour History, 76–92.
QUT ePrints
For more publications by Glenda, explore their research in QUT ePrints (our digital repository).