Dr Gerry Treuren

Right now my research effort is around four questions.

First, why do some people leave their organisations while others stay? I have been investigating organisational turnover and retention using the job embeddedness literature and the unfolding theory of turnover.

Second, how do people find new jobs and how do employers find out about potential applicants?

Third, the reasons why people volunteer.

Fourth, how useful is diversity climate – employee perceptions about organisational diversity measures – in understanding diversity outcomes within an organisation?

Centre for HRM

Postgraduate HRM pages

GT's LinkedIn page

Recent presentations on SlideShare

• Learning through continuous case studies

Academy of Management (US)

Industrial Relations Society of SA

Australian Human Resources Institute

Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management

• Job search and matching strategies and practices of potential employees and employers
• Attraction, recruitment and retention of employees in an increasingly segemented labour market.
• Attraction, recruitment and retention of volunteer labour employees in an increasingly busy world.
• The theory and application of strategic approaches to Human Resource Management in Australian workplaces.
• Regulation and State Theory approaches to understanding the employment relationship
• The origins, development and subsequent erosion of Australian compulsory arbitration, and the evolution of Australian institutions of industrial relations

Various publications over the past five years.

Refereed journal articles

‘The employment expectations of different age cohorts: Is Generation Y really that different?' Australian Journal of Career Development, 2010, 19(1) (in press) (with Kathryn Anderson)

‘The Associative-Supportive Motivation as a factor in the decision to event volunteer. Leisure/Loisir , 2009 (in press), 33(1)

‘Job search and selection outside the primary labour market: The ways in which undergraduate students find part-time employment and the ways their employers hire them’. International Employment Relations Review , 2007, 13(2), 41-58

Conference proceedings

G. Treuren (ed.) (2007) Emerging Issues in Employment Relations, Proceedings of the 6th Pacific Employment Relations Association conference, held in Adelaide, November 2006

Recent conference papers

'Does off-the-job embeddedness matter in predicting intention to leave?' to be presented to the ANZAM conference, December 2009, Melbourne

'The construct and predictive validity of three job embeddedness scales' to be presented to the PERA conference, November 2009, Adelaide

The context and process of establishing Modern Awards, 2008-2009’ to be presented to the PERA conference, November 2009, Adelaide

‘Shocks and final straws: Using exit interview data to examine the unfolding model’s decision paths’ Academy of Management Annual Conference, Chicago, August 2009 (with Carol Kulik and Prashant Bordia)

‘Are Baby Boomer, Generation X and Y students really that different? Some evidence on the employment expectations of different age cohorts’, ANZAM 2008

‘Some evidence about the relationship between gender, job search, personal ties and gender segregation’, ANZAM 2008

‘A model for the identification of organisational specific reasons for turnover’, 9th International Business Conference

‘A Multiple Motivational Approach to Classifying the Reasons why People event volunteer’, ANZAM 2007

‘Job search outside the primary labour market: Some evidence’, ANZAM 2007

‘The Workplace Relations Act's new constraints on trade union activity’. in G. White (ed). Family-friendly Employment Policies and Practices: An East-West Perspective on Work-Life Balance: 14th International Employment Relations Association Conference, Hong Kong Baptist University, 19-23 June 2006, Vol 2, IERA, 2007, pp. 203-212

‘How do undergraduate students find part-time employment? A pilot study into the role of strong/weak ties, social resources and networks in job search’ in G. White (ed). Family-friendly Employment Policies and Practices: An East-West Perspective on Work-Life Balance: 14th International Employment Relations Association Conference, Hong Kong Baptist University, 19-23 June 2006, Vol 2, IERA, 2007, pp. 213-227

‘Does a better understanding of Australian labour market dynamics help explain how we got WorkChoices?’ in G. White (ed). Family-friendly Employment Policies and Practices: An East-West Perspective on Work-Life Balance: 14th International Employment Relations Association Conference, Hong Kong Baptist University, 19-23 June 2006, IERA, 2007, Vol 2, pp. 84-91

‘How do people find out about job vacancies? The case of undergraduate students looking for part-time employment’. 2006 Australasian Business and Behavioural Sciences Association International Conference, Adelaide, September

‘Beyond the Unemployment Rate: The Need for Better Labour Market Indicators’, 21st Century Work: High Road or Low Road?, The 2006 AIRAANZ Conference, Adelaide, 1-3 February 2006, (With Steven Barrett and Senada Nukic)

‘Beyond the Unemployment Rate: A Reinterpretation of the Australian Labour Market, The Path to Full Employment, Proceedings 7th Path to Full Employment Conference and 12th National Conference on Unemployment, Newcastle, 8-9 December 2005, pp. 116-132. (With Steven Barrett and Senada Nukic)

I am able to provide media comment in the following areas of expertise:

Discipline: Industrial Relations, Human Resource Management

• Job search and matching strategies of employees and employers
• strategic HRM
• measurement of HR performance
• volunteer management
• recent changes in IR legislation
• recruitment and retention issues