Faculty of Economics and Commerce Department of Management and Marketing

Dr Susan Ainsworth

Profile

Career History

Before taking up her position in the Department of Management and Marketing at the University of Melbourne, Susan was a senior lecturer in Work and Organisational Studies at the University of Sydney. Prior to her career as an academic Susan worked in human resources and organisational development in organisations in the private, public and not-for-profit sectors.

Research Interests

Qualifications

BA (Hons) The University of Sydney
Grad Dip Industrial Relations The University of Sydney
Grad Dip Evaluation The University of Melbourne
M Com (Hons) The University of Melbourne
PhD The University of Melbourne
Grad Cert in Ed Studies (Higher Education) The University of Sydney

Editorial Boards


Organization Studies 2004 - current

Memberships


European Group on Organization Studies
Australian Human Resources Institute

Research

Publications in Refereed Journals



Ainsworth, S. and Hardy C. (forthcoming 2009) ‘Mind over body: physical and psychotherapeutic discourses and the regulation of the older worker’. Human Relations

Ainsworth, S., Knox, A. and O’Flynn, J. (forthcoming 2009) ‘“A blinding lack of progress”: Management rhetoric and affirmative action’. Gender, Work and Organization.

Ainsworth, S. and Purss, A. (forthcoming 2009) ‘Same time next year? Human resource management and seasonal workers’, Personnel Review, 38(3).

Ainsworth, S., Grant, D., and Iedema, R. (2009) ‘“Keeping things moving”: space and the construction of middle management identity in post-NPM organizations’, Discourse and Communication, 3(1), 5-25.

Ainsworth, S. and Cutcher, L. (2008) ‘Staging value and older women workers: when “something more” is “too much”’, International Journal of Work, Organization and Emotion, 2 (4), 344-357.

Ainsworth, S. and Hardy, C. (2008) ‘The enterprising self: an unsuitable job for an older worker’, Organization, 15(3): 389-406.

Ainsworth, S., and Cutcher, L. (2008) ‘Expectant mothers and absent fathers: paid maternity leave in Australia’, Gender, Work and Organization, 15(4): 375-393.

Ainsworth, S., and Hardy, C. (2007) ‘The construction of the older worker: privilege, paradox and policy’, Discourse and Communication, 1(3): 295-313.

Ainsworth, S., Harley, B. and Hardy C., (2005) ‘Online consultation: e-democracy and e-resistance in the case of the Development Gateway’, Management Communication Quarterly, 19(1): 120-135.

Ainsworth, S. and Hardy, C. (2004) ‘Critical discourse analysis and identity: why bother?’, Critical Discourse Studies, 1(2): 225-259.

Ainsworth, S. and Wolfram Cox, J. (2003) ‘Families divided: Culture and control in small family business’, Organization Studies, 24(9): 1463-1485.

Ainsworth, S. (2002) ‘The feminine advantage: a discursive analysis of the invisibility of older women workers’, Gender Work and Organization, 9(5): 579-601.

Ainsworth, S. (2001) ‘The discursive construction of older worker identity: a reflection on process and methods’ by S. Ainsworth, Tamara: Journal of Critical Postmodern Organization Science, 1(4): 29-46.

Refereed Chapters in Books

Iedema, R., Ainsworth, S., and Grant, D. (2008), ‘The contemporary ‘clinician-manager’: Entrepreneurialising middle management?’ in C. Caldas-Coulthard, and R. Iedema (eds), Identity Trouble – Discursive Constructions, Basingstoke: Palgrave, pp. 273-291.

Ainsworth, S. (2006) ‘Constructing older workers: cultural meanings of age and work’, in Rethinking Work: Time, space and discourse, ed. M Hearn and G Michelson, Cambridge University Press, Melbourne, pp. 308-342.

Ainsworth, S. and Hall, R. (2006) ‘Tensions between ethics and business partnership’, in Rethinking Work: Time, space and discourse, ed. M Hearn and G Michelson, Cambridge University Press, Melbourne, pp. 263-284.

Ainsworth, S. and Hardy, C. (2004) ‘Discourse and identities’, in The Sage Handbook of Organizational Discourse, eds. D. Grant, C. Hardy, C. Oswick and L. Putnam. London: Sage, pp. 153-174. This book was awarded ‘Book of the Year 2005’ by the National Communication Association (USA).

Teaching

Teaching Responsibilities 2009

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