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17th ANNUAL IERA CONFERENCE
Convened by
College of
Management,
Mahidol
University,
Bangkok and
University of Technology,
Sydney
30th June
– 3rd July, 2009
Bangkok,
Thailand
CALL FOR PAPERS
Conference Theme:
Advancing the Quality of HRM and HRD in the Global Economy
Tracks:
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HRD and HRM policy
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Organisational culture and power
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ER processes: collective and individual
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Community resource development
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HRM outcomes: empowerment, job satisfaction and productivity
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Workplace learning
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Values, politics, power, ethics and HRD
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Employment relations at public policy level
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HR and corporate sustainability
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Leadership
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Other relevant Issues
Comparative studies focused upon different sectors such as public and private, or different countries, are especially welcome. Papers addressing the conference theme or its sub-themes are invited.
Abstracts and/or full papers (refereed) will be accepted up to
30th May, 2009
· A separate cover page, within the paper (doc. File) setting out the full names of each author, their position,
institution, postal address, email and phone numbers must accompany each abstract and paper.
· When submitting papers, the track in which they are to be included, should be indicated.
· The paper should be saved as a doc. file and named as “Surname – Track”.
· Abstracts should be no more than 500 words and provide a summary of the paper.
· Conference papers must not exceed 10 pages in single spacing including references, figures and tables.
Notes re presentation appear below.
· Abstracts and papers received before 30th April will be refereed prior to the conference.
· Papers submitted for refereeing will be double-blind refereed.
· All papers submitted for refereeing must be original works, and must not have been published previously.
· All refereed and non-refereed abstracts and papers will be electronically published on disk.
· All refereed papers will be considered for publication in the IERA journals, the International Employment
Relations Review (IERR) and the International Journal of Employment Studies (IJES).
· All abstracts and papers are accepted conditional upon at least one of the authors being a paid
registrant for the conference.
· Authors are limited to a maximum of two papers.
Members of the 2009 IERA Refereeing and Program Committee are:
Style Notes for Papers
Please use:
1. Times New Roman 12 point
2. Single spacing
3. Block paragraphs
4. Page numbers
5. Margins set at 3cm left, right, top and bottom
7. Papers not to exceed 10 pages in single spacing which includes cover page, tables, figures and references.
Major section headings should be preceded by a line space and be formatted in bold type.
Minor section headings should be preceded by a line space and formatted in italic type.
‘Quotations’ should be set in single inverted commas. Emphasis, foreign words and foreign phrases should be set in italics.
Citations
The Harvard method is required. Citations should be formatted as follows:
(Author year: page number), for example:
(Bean, 1995: 2-5)
(Bean, 1993: 2-5; Bamber, Park, Lee, Ross and Broadbent, 2000:1)
(Bean, 1995 cited in Bamber et al, 2000:12)
(Bean, 1995 in Bamber et al, 2000: 9)
Citations in publications with more than two authors should list all authors in the first instance, and use ‘et al’ for subsequent citations.
Reference List
Present references in Times New Roman, 10 point, with hanging indent formatted as follows:
Chew, S.B. and Chew, R. (2001), ‘The Cost and Benefits Model of Union Membership’ International Employment Relations Review, Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 1-8
Bean, R. (1995), Comparative Industrial Relations: An Introduction to Cross-National Perspectives, Second Edition,
London: International Thomson business Press
Bamber, G. and Ross, P. (2000) ‘Industrialisation, Democratisation and Employment Relations in the Asia-Pacific’, in Bamber, G., Park, F., Lee, C., Ross, P. And Broadbent, K. (eds), Employment Relations in the Asia-Pacific: Changing Approaches, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, pp 3-22.
Tables and Figures
Tables and figures should be numbered consecutively. Place the title flush to the left margin, above the table in bold type, with one line space above.
Insert tables and figures in the text where they are meant to appear.
For final publication, send additional files containing tables and figures and the spreadsheets used to produce them. Tables and figures should be included within the document which must comply with the 10 page, single space, size restriction as referred to above.
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