Staff profile

Dr Rosaria Burchielli PhD (Melb); MA (Spanish - La Trobe); Dip Ed (La Trobe)

Senior Lecturer

Faculty of Business, Economics and Law

La Trobe Business School
Department of Management

Melbourne (Bundoora)

 

Qualifications

PhD

Membership of professional Associations

British Sociological Association; Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australian & New Zealand; ; Australian & New Zealand Academy of Management; Australian Corporate Accountability Network – Member of the Labour Working Group: http://acan.org.au/

Area of study

Management

Brief Profile

 Dr Burchielli is an established and leading scholar with an international reputation in the area of informal and home-based work, in which she has numerous publications in highly ranked, international journals, and was invited by the International Labour Organisation in 2008 to be chief investigator for a global report on home-based work. She also has a national reputation in trade union organizational behaviour, corporate accountability and gender issues, established through several research publications in highly-ranked national and international journals. Current research projects include transnational organising; new forms of organising; identity and organising; and the international initiatives in the protection of home-based work.

Prior to working in the higher education sector, she was a specialist research officer at the Victorian Trades Hall Council, resourcing Victorian trade unions on equity, access and training issues, and supporting their participation in tripartite bodies. She was also a research officer at the Nicaraguan Regional Institute for Social and Economic Research (CRIES), an NGO whose remit was to increase capacity in civil society organisations to find local solutions to poverty in the region. 

Dr Burchielli has supervised Ph.D. research on informal work; migrant work skills; and corporate social responsibility. She is a foundation and working group member of the recently established Australian Corporate Accountability Network (http://acan.org.au/), an Australian non-government organisation (NGO), comprising a range of civil society organisations and individuals, set up to improve corporate accountability in Australia. Moreover, her fluent Spanish enables her to maintain a strong working relationship with non-government organisations in Nicaragua and Argentina, working on improved ethics in supply chain management issues in these regions. 

Research interests

Law and social regulation

- Judicial and non-judicial protection of informal work

Social, environmental and sustainable management and reporting, environmental performance, business ethics, corporate accountability and human rights

- Human Rights; Gender; Informal work; Organising

Teaching Units

 Future of Work; Business Ethics; Business & Society

Recent Publications

 Monograph

Delaney, A., Tate, J., & Burchielli, R. (in press). The Global state of homework: towards better work and better lives. Geneva: ILO. (140 pages)

 

 

 

Journal articles

Batty, A., & Burchielli, R. (2011). Out of the frying pan, into the fire? Persistent gender barriers in Australian fire-fighting and challenges for HRM. Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources. 49(2)

Burchielli, R., Delaney, A., Tate, J., Coventry, K. (2009). The FairWear Campaign: An Ethical Network in the Australian Garment Industry. Journal of Business Ethics, Special Issue 90, 575–588.

 Burchielli, R., & Bartram, T. (2009). What helps organising work? The indicators and the facilitators of organising. Journal of Industrial Relations, 58 (5), 587-707.

 Burchielli, R., Bartram, T., & Thanacoody, P. R. (2008). Work-family balance or greedy organisations? Relations Industrielles, 63(1), 108-130.

 Burchielli, R., Buttigieg, D., & Delaney, A. (2008). Organising homeworkers: The use of mapping as an organizing tool. Work, Employment and Society, 22(1), 167-180.

 Burchielli, R. (2008). Human Resource Management Practices in Trade Unions: Implications for Strategy. Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources. 46(1), 56-67.

 Burchielli, R. (2006). The purpose of trade union values: An analysis of the ACTU statement of values. Journal of Business Ethics, 68(2), 133-142.

 Burchielli, R., & Bartram, T. (2006). Like an Iceberg Floating Alone: Teacher Stress, Individual and Whole School Responses at a Victorian Primary School. Australian Journal of Education, 50(3), 312-327.

 Burchielli, R. (2006). The intensification of Teachers Work and the role of changed Public Sector philosophy. International Journal of Human Resources Development and Management: 6, (2-4).

 Burchielli, R., & Pearson, P. (2006). Exploring Work Intensification in Australian Public School Teaching. New Zealand Journal of Employment Relations, 31(2), 1-8.

Burchielli, R. (2004). It's not just numbers: union employees’ perceptions of union effectiveness. Journal of Industrial Relations, 46 (3), 336-343.

Book Chapters

Burchielli, R. (2007). What use are union values? An analysis of the ACTU's statement of union values and the role of values for unions. In D. Buttigieg, S. Cockfield, R. Cooney, M. Jerrard, & A. Rainnie (Eds.), Trade Unions in the Community: Values, Issues, Shared Interests and Alliances. Melbourne: Heidelberg Press.

Refereed Conference Papers

Keating, M., Delaney, A., Burchielli, R. (2012). Inequality among low-paid women workers. Paper presented at the Gender, Work and Organization, 7th Biennial International Interdisciplinary Conference, Keele University, England, 27–29th June 2012.

Delaney, A., Burchielli, R, & Tate, J. (2012). The International Homeworker Movement: Exploring Women Workers’ Transnationalism. Paper presented at the AIRAANZ, 2012 Conference, Gold Coast, Australia.

Delaney, A., Tate, J., & Burchielli, R. (2011). Homeworker Initiatives: Gaining Recognition and Rights as Workers Through Organising, National and International standards. Paper presented at the "West Meets East: The International Labor Organization from Geneva to the Pacific Rim". February 3-5, 2011.

Burchielli, R., Coventry, K., Halteh, P., Riddle, M. (2010) Just Tell Me What To Do: Enquiry Based Learning and the Role of Staff in Student Learning and Engagement. ICERI, 2010 (International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation),  Madrid (Spain); 15-17 November, 2010.

Ainsworth, S., Batty, A. And Burchielli, R. (2010) ‘It’s just the CFA mate’: constructing masculinity in voluntary firefighting, in J. Wolfram Cox and J. Schapper, HEAT: ACSCOS 2010. 4th Australasian Caucus of the Standing Conference on Organizational Symbolism, Fitzroy, Melbourne, Australia, 29 Nov – 1 Dec.

Burchielli, R., & Delaney, A. (2009). Advancing CSR performance: Evidence from Australian informal work, ANZAM 2009, Conference of the Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management, Melbourne.

Burchielli, R., & Delaney, A. (2009). Homework and CSR: Can homeworkers benefit? 15th IIRA World Congress, Sydney; 24 – 26 August, 2009.

Burchielli, R., & Delaney, A. (2007). Uncovering non-garment homework in Australia: preliminary issues. Paper presented at the AIRAANZ, 2007 Conference, Auckland, New Zealand.

Bartram, T., Burchielli, R., & Thanacoody, P. R. (2007). Greedy organisations and work-family balance Paper presented at the AIRAANZ, 2007 Conference, Auckland, New Zealand.

Burchielli, R., Buttigieg, D., & Delaney, A. (2006). Mapping as organising: An analysis of how homeworkers are using mapping as an organising tool. Paper presented at the ACREW Conference: Socially responsive, socially responsible approaches to employment and work, Monash University Prato Centre, Tuscany, Italy. Australian Centre for Research in Employment and Work, Monash University, Australia, and the Department of Management, Kings College London.

Book Reviews

Burchielli, R. (2009). HRM, Work and Employment in China. By Fang Lee Cooke. (Book Review). Management Research News.

 Burchielli, R. (2007). Brave New Workplace:  How individual contracts are changing our jobs. By David Peetz. (Book Review). Management Research News. 30(8) 609-611.

Burchielli, R. (2006). Power at Work: Rebuilding the Australian Union Movement. By Michael Crosby (Book Review). Journal of Industrial Relations, 48(4), 552-554.