Title

Managerial Leadership in Workplace

Based on the interviews of CEOs of BCA member companies. Provides an insight into the CEOs’ perceptions of drivers of change and the barriers in creating leading high-performance workplaces.

Year

Sept. 2000

Authors

World Competitive Practices Pty Ltd

Sponsor

BCA

Target Group

CEO’s of BCA member companies

Title

Innovation, Unlocking the Future, Final Report

Analysis of Australia’s capacity for innovation, its strengths and weaknesses and makes recommendations.

Year

August 2000

Authors

Innovation Summit Implementation Group

Sponsor

BCA and Commonwealth Federal Government

Target Group

Australia

Title

Australian manufacturers – a sector by sector analysis of internet usage

A survey of Australian manufacturers to measure firstly, whether the target group is using Internet and secondly are they realising business benefits out of Internet usage.

Year

July 2000

Authors

PricewaterhouseCoopers

Sponsor

PricewaterhouseCoopers and Australian Industry Group

Target Group

Australian Manufacturers

Title

Survey on International Strategic HRM

The study although on large organisations, highlights the decline in expenditure on training and development for all occupational groups. The findings of this survey are consistent with the finding of this study hence included in this report.

Year

June 2000

Authors

Cranfield-PricewaterhouseCoopers

Sponsor*

Target Group

Large Australian Industry

Title

E-competent Australia

Report on the impact of e-commerce on the economy and the NTF. The study reviews the present international literature and the government reports. Also includes the interviews of the industry representatives from large, medium and small firms.

Year

May 2000

Authors

John Mitchell and Associates

Sponsor

ANTA

Target Group

Australian Industry

Title

Great Southern Light Industry Cluster Development, Pre-feasibility Study

Identifies the constraints facing the light engineering industry in the region, and assesses the needs of the industry and the assistance required in developing skills for commercialisation of their products.

Year

Jan 2000

Authors

Webster, R.,Neville King and Associates Pty Ltd

Sponsor

DEWRSB, for Great Southern Development Commission

Target Group

Light Engineering Industry in the Albany region, WA

Title

TQM in Australian manufacturing: factors critical to success

Discusses the trends in the adoption of TQM practices in Australian manufacturing industry and highlights some of the barriers to the adoption of such practices. The findings are a result of qualitative and quantitative analysis of the surveys conducted in 1991, 1993 and 1996 by mailing questionnaires to almost 1000 manufacturing companies.

Year

2000

Authors

Sohal and Terziovski

Sponsor*

Monash University

Target Group

Australian manufacturing firms

Title

A comparison of Australian firms and their use of continuous improvement tools

This survey is part of a wider investigation of CI being coordinated by the members of EuroCINet, a Europe wide network of researchers working in the field of CI. Survey conducted by postal questionnaire.

Year

2000

Authors

Hyland,O’Mara and Kondepudi

Sponsor*

Target Group

Australian manufacturing firms

Title

Engineering Working Group Report

Focuses on skill shortages, barriers to meeting skills needs and recommends solutions. Identifies the skills in shortest supply.

Year

2000

Authors

Engineering working group

Sponsor

Australian Industry Group

Target Group

Australian engineering industry

Title

Building better Bosses

An article in ‘Workforce’ focuses on the management competencies needed to operate in the present economic environment, and the training and diffusion of management techniques.

Year

2000

Authors

Caudron, S

Sponsor*

Target Group

Managers in general

Title

Training in small- and medium-sized enterprises

Focuses on the training and development aspects of human resource management in small and medium sized organisations in the Great Britain.

Year

2000

Authors

Vinten, G

Sponsor*

Target Group

Small and medium sized enterprises UK

Title

Factors influencing adult learning in technology based firms

Examines the impact of adult education principles to training in advanced-technology based companies and identifies some of the factors influencing adult learning in a training programme specially designed for managers in these firms.

Year

2000

Authors

MacDonald, Gabriel and Cousins

Sponsor*

Target Group

Managers of advance technology based firms, Canada

Title

Submission to the senate inquiry into the quality of vocational education and training in Australia

Report prepared in reply to senate enquiry about the quality of VET in the rapidly changing requirements of the industry.

Year

December 1999

Authors

DISR

Sponsor*

Target Group

Australian Industry, VET

Title

Longitudinal analysis of quality management practices in Australian organisations

Analysis of three empirical studies conducted in 1991, 1993 and 1996 on the adoption of quality management practices in Australian manufacturing organisations.

Year

August 1999

Authors

Terziovski, Sohal and Moss

Sponsor*

Target Group

Large Australian manufacturing organisations about 1000 in number

Title

New Directions for Manufacturing in South Australia

Highlights the importance of manufacturing to the economy and recommend a range of programs to lift innovation and entrepreneurship.

Year

March 1999

Authors

Piro, Callaghan and Reddrop

Sponsor

DIT

Target Group

SA manufacturing

Title

What drives enterprise training? Evidence from Australia

Reports the results of two years study of the determinants of training in private sector enterprises from 5 industry sectors which includes 42 case studies and a national survey of 1,760 enterprises.

Year

April 1999

Authors

Smith and Hayton

Sponsor

Office of Training and Further Education and Australian National Training Authority

Target Group

Australian industry including manufacturing SMEs

Title

Skills in the South Australian automotive Industry, Report Summary

Assesses the current skills, demand and shortages to the year 2002, needs of SMEs in the face of globalisation and identifies the skill shortages.

Year

Feb 1999

Authors

Ausrecon consulting and Strategic Interface, Errol Lawson &Associates

Sponsor

DIT and DETE, South Australia

Target Group

South Australian Automotive Industry

Title

Big Pictures from the Small End of Town:1998

Based on the formative evaluation of the SBPD program which originated in 1995/96 and has undergone changes over time, the aim being to identify factors that influence the decisions made by small businesses to select appropriate training and to train their staff.

Year

1999

Authors

Kearney, P

Sponsor

DETYA

Target Group

Small Businesses, Australia

Title

Large firms versus small firms- do they implement CI the same way?

Comparative analysis of two surveys conducted - Australia wide study of CI in large and medium manufacturing firms and another survey of SMEs in NSW. It compares the motives to implement CI, CI content, support for CI, the usage of problem solving tools within the CI process and their general maturity level of CI.

Year

1999

Authors

Chapman and Sloan

Sponsor*

InCITe Research Centre, UWS perhaps

Target Group

Large and SMEs of Australia

Title

Training to Compete

Survey of present and future skill and training needs of Australian industry, what is shaping them and the current approaches and institutions to deliver them.

Year

1999

Authors

Allen Consulting Group

Sponsor

AiG, ANTA, DETYA, ASTF

Target Group

Australian Industry

Title

Changes in the production manager’s job: past, present and future trends

Result of a survey of a sample of 600 production/operations managers from large, medium and small manufacturing organisations in Australia. Analyses the future trends to develop management capabilities.

Year

1999

Authors

D’Netto and Sohal

Sponsor

Monash University

Target Group

Production managers in Australia

Title

Visionary Manufacturing challenges for 2020

This research is aimed at creating a vision of the competitive environment for manufacturing and the nature of manufacturing enterprise in 2020 in order to forecast the manufacturing challenges in 2020 and to elicit information on enabling technologies for research and development.

Year

Dec1998

Authors

National Research Council

Sponsor*

Target Group

Manufacturing Sector, USA

Title

The Queensland Small Business Management Skills Strategy, Implementation Report 1996/97

Report on implementation of Queensland Small Business Management Skills Strategy, emphasises on the accessibility, relevance and credibility on small business management skills development programs and the need to develop a training culture within small businesses.

Year

1998

Authors

QDTSBI

Sponsor

TSBI

Target Group

Small Business Operators in Queensland

Title

What Drives Australia’s Competitive advantage

Study focussing on the sources of Australia’s comparative advantage and about what would happen in the future rather than what has happened in the past. Identifies the drivers of comparative advantage and the constraints in the way.

Year

1998

Authors

Centre for International Economics Report

Sponsor

DISR

Target Group

Australian Industry

Title

Vision for the future of Manufacturing in South Australia, Final Report

Report summarising the key deliverables from the process used to develop a vision for the future of manufacturing in South Australia and the key challenges.

Year

1998

Authors

Munzberg Consulting and Futures Alliance

Sponsor

DIT and Manufacturing Industry Advisory Board

Target Group

SA manufacturing

Title

Venturing down the TQM path for SME’s

Research focussing on smaller organisations within the broad range of SMEs, upper cut-off limit being 250 employees. Examines factors that distinguish between those SMEs, which focus on narrow concepts of quality such as ISO 9000 and those that focus on more holistic approaches such as TQM.

Year

1998

Authors

Wiele and Brown

Sponsor*

Target Group

All Australian SME companies which are members of Australian Quality Council and all ISO certified companies in WA

Title

Benchmarking manufacturing performance in Australia and New Zealand

Results of the 1996, Manufacturing Futures Survey, coordinated by Boston University (USA), INSEAD (France) and Waseda University (Japan). Covers a range of manufacturing indicators, such as quality, delivery, inventory turnover, changeover times and new product introduction speed.

Year

1998

Authors

Corbett

Sponsor*

Target Group

Manufacturers from Australia (110) and New Zealand (68)

Title

Manufacturing Prosperity _ Ideas for Industry, Technology and Employment

Focus on the significance of manufacturing in the economy of Australia and the need to rebuild manufacturing because of its potential to reduce current account deficit.

Year

1998

Authors

Gelbar

Sponsor*

Target Group

Australian Manufacturing

Title

The quality of British management: Asia-Pacific perceptions

Study examines the perceptions of Asian business leaders towards the target group acknowledging the importance of Asia-Pacific region in international business. Findings are a result of the survey conducted by the authors as a part of the Industry Task Force on Leadership and Management Skills.

Year

1998

Authors

Savery, Mazzarol and Dawkins

Sponsor

Australian Federal Government

Target Group

Australian, German, Japanese, Taiwanese, USA and UK managers

Title

Training needs surveys

Two surveys conducted during the development of the manufacturing management programs at University of South Australia, and responses by participants at the first round of Smartlink seminars.

Year

1997 and 2000

Authors

Various

Sponsor*

University of South Australia

Target Group

Manufacturers

Title

Make or Break - 7 Steps to make Australia rich again

Report produced in the first half of 1997 for MTIA. Includes background research into industry and investment policy issues in Australia and overseas. Includes interviews with the senior executives of 150 companies, also senior managers in investment, CEOs of multinationals in Europe, Asia and USA and senior managers in investment and industry policies in Malaysia, Singapore and Ireland.

Year

1997

Authors

The Economist Intelligence Unit

Sponsor

MTIA

Target Group

Australian Industry

Title

Flexible Delivery for Small Business in Tasmania

An account of Tasmanian research conducted during 1996 examining the role of the training sector in low participation of small businesses in training activity. Also examines the barriers faced by training providers and businesses.

Year

1996

Authors

Kirkwood and Kearney

Sponsor

Tasmanian State Training Authority

Target Group

Small businesses in Tasmania

Title

Enterprising Nation

Landmark study of management in Australian industry.

Year

1995

Authors

Karpin

Sponsor

Commonwealth Government of Australia

Target Group

Australian managers, academics, trainers, policy makers