A range of health care occupational communities have travelled down various pathways in a quest for professional status. Some have been more successful than others and the evidence indicates that the most successful occupational communities pursued political strategies and tactics. This paper draws on their experiences to suggest ways that Australian ambulance paramedics could proceed in their ...

This paper examines why and how government department personnel functions should reorient their activities to take a more strategic and developmental approach to human resource management (HRM). Currently, human resource (HR) policies are, in the main, centrally determined and developed. There is a commitment to decentralise and devolve HR responsibilities. Allied with this more strategic focus...

The report aims to find out the existence of a dependency between digital and specialized professional competence students. acquisition certain competences is basis effective exercise given profession. role information communication technologies in formation necessary abilities for career graduating specialists analyzed. primary data empirical study has been collected through use survey method....

This paper seeks to identify and summarise the big issues at intersection of family businesses employment relations business literatures. Family have additional complexities compared with non-family businesses. Thus, aim this is throw light on why interest in New Zealand rationalise need research context We first present as an area for by outlining landscape Zealand, followed a review foundatio...

Abstract Civil society leadership training programmes are a new phenomenon, and they often overlooked by civil scholarship despite being linked to the professionalisation of sector. In this article, we examine 14 Swedish in order identify ideals Drawing on notion ‘symbolic boundaries’, argue that produce horizontal boundaries relation other societal sectors vertical between leaders sector membe...