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EDUCATIONAL FORUM NEW ZEALAND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS SOCIETY ANNUAL REPORT 1977-78 In presentmg the fifth annual report of the New Zealand Industrial Relations Society. I have to record yet another year of mtens1f1ed Industrial conflict and record unemployment figures. Aspects of industrial relations have seldom been out of the head· lines. and growmg public concern has been reflected 1n our increased membership f1g· ures and increased attendances at our meetings Membership of the Society rose dunng ,he year from 145 to 206 56 mem· bers are resident in Wellington where a separate branch was established early in 1977 The annual general meet1ng in August 1977 elected ~ comm1ttee consisting of Bert Roth (president) Lee Baldock and Peter Carroll (vice-presidents) , Bill McNally (secretary) , Jan May (treasurer). John Deeks and Margaret Wilson (joint editors) , and Peter Jenkins. Richard Randerson and Adnan Webster. Richard Randerson, a foun-dation member of our Society, left for Wellington 1n March of this year, and the committee co-opted Ken Tuxford to take his place. The committee met eight times during the year, and promoted a range of activities Within the context of our objectives, i.e . To organ1se and foster discussion. re· search , education and publication within the field of induslnal relations and related fields " Six general meetmgs were held in Auckland during the year, first at the Royal International Hotel and later at the DB Tavern: 28-11·1977 Panel discuss1on on '·Redund· ancy Prov1sions - Now and for the Future. " 13- 3-1978 Jim Rowe on Industrial Rela-tions in a Plural Society." 24· 4·1978 Sir Frank Holmes on "Working Together for New Zealand·s De-velopment ." 29· 5-1978 Sol Levine on •· tndustnal Rela-tions 1n Postwar Japan." 26· 6·1978 Bill Hodge on " What We Need to Know about Industrial Legis· latlon 28· 8·1978 Jim Knox on ·Industrial Rela· t1ons Overseas and their Impact on New Zealand." As th1s is election year, we also planned a sess1on where representatives of the four main part1es would present their indust rial relations policies, but unfortunately it has proved impossible so far to find a date which would suit everybody John Deeks who had been assoc1ated w1th our fOUrnal, the New Zealand Journal of Industrial Relations, since its first 1ssue in May 1976. took over sole editorship dunng the year We continued publication at four-monthly intervals but, thanks to a grant from the J. R. McKenzie Trust Fund, we were able to increase the size of each issue from 36 to 44 and now 48 pages. Our thanks are due to John and to the contri· butors for the h1gh standard achieved. Apart from members of the Society, who receive the tournai as part of their annual member· shio fee. we also have a growing subscrlp· t1on list - some 85 at present - of indl· v1duals and 1nst1tutions in New Zealand and overseas Our Wellington Branch has flourished during the year, but our hopes of establish· ing a further branch in Christchurch are still only hooes. Representatives from Wellington will attend the annual meetmg and report on their activities From earlier discussions with Wellmgton Branch officials II appears that the time is ripe for a change in our constitut1on and .he establishment of a separate Auckland Branch, with a nat1onal executive represent1ng all branch· es . This is something the incoming com· mittee will have to consider Our finances are in a satisfactory state. but they allow only a lim1ted range of acti-VIties . We would like to expand greatly the work of the Soc1ety by. for Instance, pre-paring and distnbuting educational pam-phlets , and conducting seminars and other training courses with invited overseas speakers There is a real need for the employment of secretarial staff to service 145 members and manage the busrness srde of the JOurnal, bu t this requrres greatly rncreased fu nds whrch could not be rarsed from membershrp subscnptlons alone The commrttee has explored possrble sources of lrnancral support and we have applied for a substantral grant to the recently estab-liShed lndustnal Aelatrons Foundation As I w111 not be stand•ng for re-election 1h1s year. I would l•ke to take this oppor-tunrty to thank members of the Society, and particularly of the committee, for their support and !herr contrrbution to ou r suc-cess. Desprte at times widely di ffenng v•ews there is a great array of talent among us, and we can claim that through our JCurnal and our meetrngs we have con-tnbuted s•gn•f•canlly to a better understand-Ing of what is perhaps the most Important problem fac•ng New Zealand BERT ROTH President WELLINGTON NEWS : WELLINGTON BRANCH, INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS SOCIETY OF NEW ZEALAND The annual genera meeting of the vVellmgton branch was held on 14 Septem-ber and attended by about 25 members The past year was a successful one for the branch w•th membershrp growing and a full and vaned programme of meetrngs btrng oflered Among the meetmgs were an address by Dr Bjorn Gustavsen on Norway ~ the Changing Work Envrron-menl a talk by Solomon Levine of the Unrversrty of Wrscons•n on ·lndustrral Rela-t•ons •n Japan a workshop sessron with S•r Frank Holmes and members of the Plan· nrng Councrl secretanat on the Council's paper Work•ng Together and an electron oollc1es forum wrth Mr Aussre Malcolm fNa11onal) Mr Arthur Faulkner {labour), Mr Les Hunter (Sacral Credrt) and Mr Nerl Wrltrams (Values) It was hoped that th•s ast meetmg would grve the partres a chance to outlrne and talk over !herr indus· trral relatrons polrcres before the election campa•gn got 1nto full gear Unfortunately most of the partres drd not have an •ndus· trral retat•ons polrcy by the date of the meetrng (31 August) Despite thrs defrcrency members of the brCJnch were able to make some 1nput into the proceedings Branch oflrcers elected at the AGM were as follows Pres•dent, Mr Don Aimer, Immediate Past Presrdent, Mr Bnan Steph-enson Vice President. Mr Don Turkington, 146 Secretary. Mr Archard Rudman Commrttee Mr Gordon Anderson. Rev Bruce Grlberd. Srr Alan Low Ms Mary Srnclalf, Mr Geofl Turner. Mr Archard Tweed ie Present membershrp of the branch stands at 56 but, rf the comm1ttee has anythrng to do with rt, writ not remarn at this frgure for very long A membershrp dnve is under way and great lhrngs are expected UNION EDUCATION The Eighth Residential Semrnar for Trade Unron Leaders was held nt Burnham Lodge, Trentham on 18-21 July This annual event conducted by the lndustnal Relations Cen Ire and the Department of Universrty Exten-sron of V1ctona Universrty in assocrallon w1th lhe NZFOL and the CSSO, atlracted 37 partrcrpants from a wrde variety of unions Among toprcs covered were current econ-omrc polrcy and employment, trade unrons nd ballots accrdent compensation. the arcrtratron court. taxation. and trade umons n socral1st countrres Speakers rncluded Rob Campbell (Combrned Union Services) Gary Evans (solicitor), Peter Harns (PSA), Rod Troll (NZFOL), Graeme Thompson and Srr Frank Holmes (NZ Planning Council) Bnan Easton (University of Canterbury), Judy Re1d (labour lawyer). Roy Caldwell (Accrdent Compensatron Commissron) and rP.presentatrves of Government Departments All rnd1cations are that thrs was yet another very successful Burnham Lodge Seminar Also held at this venue were two Trade Union Trainrng Board-sponsored semrnars A four day trade union organisers seminar was held on 8-11 August and had an attend-ance of 28 A somewhat smaller number gathered for a trade unron educators semrnar wh1ch ran from 28 August to 1 September Aga•n. these seminars appeared 'o be very worthwhile VI SIT OF MONROE BERKOWITZ Prole or Monroe Berkowrtz of Rutger~ Unrver~rty, New Jersey, ·~ currently a vrsrt· 1ng professor at the Industrial Relatrons C~ntre. Vrctorra Univers•ty He 15 professor or economrcs and director of the Drsabrlrty and Health Economrcs Research Sectron of the Rur'3au of Economrc Research at Rut· gars H1s research and publications on the econom•cs of rndustrral accidents and per-sonal rntury have extended over the last quarter·century He has also published Ill extensively on labcur and industrial rela-tions and is an active labour arbitrator At lhe Industrial Rel ations Centre he IS making a s1x-month study of the direct and ind~rect costs of 'ndustrial acc1dents in New Zea-land. This involves work with, among oth-ers. the Accident Compensation Commls-DON TURKINGTON ANZAAS 49TH CONGRESS, AUCKLAND, 22-26 JANUARY, 1979 Provisional programme for Section 28 : Industrial Relations (Chairman Dr N R Marsh. Department of Managemont Stud1es University of Auckland tel. 792-300) MONDAY, 22 JANUARY and TUESDAY, 23 JANUARY Organisation Studies: Convenor: Mr R. ..lc .lennan Department of Bus1ness Admlni-.; . ..~til n. V tori a Un1versity of Wellington TUESDAY, 23 JANUARY Future Perspectives on Industrial Relations Intersectional w1th 13 Agriculture and Forestry). Convenor: Margaret Wilson. Law Faculty , Univer>IIY of Auckland Chairperson : Bert Roth. ueputy Librarian, University of Auckland 9 a.m. • 10.30 a.m Future of Industrial Relations in the New Zealand Freezing Industry · Don J. Turk-mgton. Industrial Relations Centre. V1ctoroa University; Panel: J. G. Pryde. Agricultural Economics Research Umt, Lincoln College; M B Wlllyams. Industrial Manager Waitaki N Z. Refngerating Ltd M K1tchin 11 a.m.- 12 p.m Workshops for D1scussion. 12.00 • 12.30 p.m. Reports from Workshops. 12.30 p.m.- 1.30 p.m. Lunch 1.30 p.m. - 3 p.m. Can Deference Survive? Future Perspec· lives on Industrial Relations in the Agriculture and Forestry Industries. Howard Gil Department of Business Stud1es, North Brisbane College of Ad-vanced Educat1on. Panel Representative from New Zealand Farm Workers Asso-c at1on, Representative from Federated Farmers. 3.30 p.m. - 4.30 p.m. Workshops for Discussion 4.30 p.m. - 5 p.m. Reports from Workshops. WEDNESDAY, 24 JANUARY Issues in Industrial Relations (intersectional w1th 27 Sociology) Convenor John Deeks. Semor Lecturer in lndustnal Relations. Department of Manage-ment Stud1es University of Auckland 9.00 a.m. • 9.45 a.m. Environmental determinants of Industrial relations : a case study of the Open Cut Black Coal Mining Industry of North Central Queensland. K W Hmce, Mel-bourne Univers1ty 9.45 a.m • 10.30 a.m. Researching Australian Shop Stewards: some pointers from a comparative study. V G Taylor University of Newcastle. New South Wales 11 .00 a.m. - 11 .45 a.m. Constraints on White-Collar Union Bar-gaining. H. Richards Ouensland Univer-Sity 11 .45 a.m. - 12.30 p.m. Industrial Struggle: New Directions in Industrial Relations Research. S J. Fren-kel and A. Coolican. Univers1ty of New :;,outh Wales. 1.30 p.m.- 2.15 p.m. A Decision-Making Approach to Trade Union Democracy. E Davis La Trobe Umvers1ty 2. 15 p .m • 3.00 p.m. Bringing about industrial democracy within the Public Service : A radical South Australian response. P Benlley South Australia Department of Labour and Industry Adelaide 3.30 p.m. • 4.15 p.m. Worker participation - meanings and directions for New Zealand . K P Butter-worth, Department of Labour Wellington 4.15 p.m. • 5.30 p.m. The development of labour market infor-mation for employment and training policies: an empirical investigation in a New Zealand setting . A Williams and R. W Smith, Massey University 25-26 JANUARY The Multi-Cultural Workforce (intersectional with Section 27 Sociology). Sponsored by the Vocational Training Council of New Zealand Convenor· N.H. Marsh, Lecturer in Organi-sation Behav1our Department of Manage-ment Studies, University of Auckland . 147 I I ;, I' ! I li! li THUR SDAY, 25 JANUARY ''Analytical Perspectlvee" DR A N NEDD. Department ol Organosa-t•onal Analysis, Un•versJty of Alberta · The Cross·Cultural Study of Behaviour '" Organ•sat•ons - the s•gnif•cance of recent research findings J WEISS, Research Drvision, Department of Labour · The New Zealand Multr-Cultural Workforce_" DR SINGH. Department of Econom•cs. Unr-versl!y of Alberta " Economtc Modelling of the Impacts of an lmm•grant Work-force.' M. QUINLAN. Department of Industrial Re-lat•ons. Un1verslly of Sydney Immig-rants and lndustnal Conflict ' DR G 0 BRIAN, Department ol Psychology, Flmders Un1vers1ty of South Australia • The Effect of Job Attributes on Job Sat-•sfactton and Control Onentatrons of Australian Employers R CASTLE, R & J. HAGAN Department of EconomiCS Un•versity of Wollongong Abongrnal Employment In Aural Areas DR N MARSH. Department of Management Studres Unrversrty of Auckland "The Cross-Cultural Study of Supervisory Style DR R A HEDLEY Department ol Socrol-ogy, Unrversrty of Victona, Canada Work Ltfe and the Pursuit of Happiness - A Study of Australian Industrial War· kers DR C. McPHERSON Department of Socrol-ogy Unrversrty of Auckland '"Eihnrc Boundarres rn the Workforce. ' FRIDAY, 26 JANUARY "Applied Perspectives'' A CALLUS, Department of lndustrrat Rata-tons Unrver:;rty of Sydney "Employer Poh cres for the Management of a Multt-Cultural Workforce A Cnttcal Examtna-lton 148 D STORER, Centre lor Urban Research and Actron. Australia Industrial Health and the Mtgrant Worker P BERWICK. Department ol Anthropology, Umverstty of Californta. '"The Effect-we· ness of Spectal Government Educational Programmes on the Ethntc Boundaries of the Maon of New Zealand DR T DOUGLAS. Department ol Sociology Unrversrty ol Warkato, and DR J OLDER Department of Medicrne. Untverstty of Otago. "The Maori Graduate in New Zea-land c. HAWLEY. Auckland Techntcal Institute lndustrtal Language Training: the Poten-tial for Development in the New Zealand Context.'' J GRIFFITHS. Trade Unron Trarning Auth-orrty (Australta). ··The Educatton of Unron Offtcrals tn Dealing with Mtgrant Members· Results of a TUTA Experiment .. P ROBSON Ethntc Affarrs Commission, New South Wales. ·A Comparattve Study of Management Practice with a Multi-Cultural Workforce tn Four Australran Compan•es. ' J TAMAHORI. Todd Motors, Wellington 'Cross-Cultural Study of Absenteersm and Labour Turnover ' w F McDONALD. Polynesian Advisory Offtcor Vocational Traintng Council Auckland ''The lmplicat•ons of Affirma-trve Action Employment Poltcres In New Zealand" Note: The Programme wtll be extended over another day due to high Interest expressed tn the topic. Brochure and reg•stratton forms are avarlable from -THE ORGANISING SECRETARY, 49th ANZAAS Congress, University of Auckland, Pr iva te Bag, AUCKLAND. in Australia , from Trans· AUIIralla Air li nes II 

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