This call for papers may be of interest to GDO members.
I hope to see many of you in Nijmegen!
Yvonne Benschop
Deadline call for abstracts: 21st March 2008
International Employment Relations Association
16th Annual Conference IERA 2008
June 30 – 2 July 2008
Nijmegen School of Management, Radboud University Nijmegen
The Netherlands
Diversity and New Employment Relations
The 16th annual conference of the International Employment Relations Association (IERA) will take place at Radboud University, Nijmegen, in the Netherlands. This year's core conference theme is diversity and employment relations. We welcome papers that address this issue either from a theoretical perspective or addressed through empirical research. Papers that address the following topics listed below are especially welcome. However, as usual with IERA conferences, papers on other employment relations topics are also considered.
Diversity and New Employment Relations
The increasing diversity of the workforce, both globally and within nation states, means that employment relationships are changing. Nowadays more atypical employment contracts can be found and employees work under more divergent conditions. Among the dominant actors in the labour market there is a silent acknowledgement of the need for less rigid labour markets and governments of different political complexions are pushing this process of change. This process marks a tendency towards liberalization, deregulation, decentralization of collective bargaining and the privatization of social security.
Some questions to be addressed are:
- What impact do these changes have on inequalities in the labour market?
- Do they imply new intersections between dimensions of inequality, gender, race and age or other?
- To what extent are the major actors in the employment relationship adopting specific coping strategies and, if so, what are these strategies?
The main theme for the conference therefore concerns the changing composition of the workforce, the increasing diversity within organizations, and changing employment relations. In addition, this conference addresses the question to what extent existing institutional arrangements are being challenged and changed. Papers will be considered for a special issue of the International Journal of Employment Studies.
NB: On July 2nd a practitioner forum is organized open for participants of the academic conference with no additional fee attached.
Abstracts and proceedings
Please send your abstract before 21st March 2008 to: IERA2008Nijmegen@gmail.com Abstracts should be no more than 500 words and provide a summary of the paper. All abstracts will be refereed. For those who require full papers to be refereed prior the conference, this can be arranged. See the website for submission guidelines.
Streams
- Diversity, contingent employment, marginalization and flexicurity strategies
- Cultural diversity and societal responsiveness; the dynamics of institutional change
- Gender, diversity within organizations and the future of work
- Diversity and employee representation: deregulation, reregulation and the role of trade unions
- Control and ownership; new forms of employer-worker relationships
- Globalisation and migrant labour.
Keynote speakers
Professor Myrtle Bell, Professor of Human Resource Management, Department of Management, University of Texas at Arlington
Professor Yvonne Benschop, Professor of Organizational Behavior, Nijmegen School of Management, Radboud University, The Netherlands
Professor Maddy Jansens, Professor at the Research Centre for Organisation Studies, Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Leuven, Belgium
Professor Mustafa F. Özbilgin, Director of Postgraduate Research, Chair in Human Resource Management, Norwich Business School, University of East Anglia (UEA), Norwich, Norfolk
Conference Registration
You can register for the 2008 IERA Conference by filling out the registration form on our website. Please use one form per person.
Registration Forms must be followed by full payment in order to be processed. We will mail a confirmation of your registration by e-mail, including an invoice when your payment is fulfilled.
Conference fee
The conference fee includes admission to the conference sessions, two lunches, a conference dinner, a 'welcome drink' and conference materials.
Hotel reservations are not included. For more information about the hotels and how to make hotel reservations look at our website: www.iera2008.org Please note that the conference organization is not responsible for the hotel reservations.
Payment information
The conference fee is:
- Early bird (before 15 May 2008) 375 euro
- Regular (before 24 June 2008) 495 euro
- Phd (2008 Phd card photocopy required) 195 euro
- Student (2008 student card photocopy required) 125 euro
Organization Committee
On behalf of IERA:
- Erik Poutsma, Arnoud van de Ven, Willem de Nijs
Nijmegen School of Management, Radboud University, The Netherlands
- Geoff White, Ulke Veersma / University of Greenwich, United Kingdom
Further details of the conference location, program and booking arrangements are available on the conference website:
www.iera2008.org
Erik Poutsma
International Comparative Research
PARTNER Research Group
Nijmegen School of Management
Radboud University Nijmegen
PO Box 9108
NL-6500 HK Nijmegen
The Netherlands
Phone +31 24 3612028
Fax +31 24 3611933
e.poutsma@fm.ru.nl
www.ru.nl/partner