Frank Reid Centre for Industrial Relations and Human Resources Professor, Dept. of Economics, University of Toronto Professor of Employment Relations, Woodsworth College E-mail: frank.reid@utoronto.ca Click here for a full CV (in pdf), including all publications. Brief CV Current Research Interests Recent Publications Courses Taught at the CIRHR

Current Research Interests

Frank's current research continues his established interest in the impact of worksharing, jobsharing and other alternative work arrangements on employee satisfaction, organizational effectiveness, and job creation.  He has also published recently on the labour market and organizational impacts of mandatory retirement in both Canada and Australia.

Recent Publications

Worksharing and Working Time Issues in Canada. Montreal: Institute for Research on Public Policy, forthcoming, with Morley Gunderson.

"Implications of Employee Preferences for Worktime Reduction: Survey, Evidence and Case Studies in Canada," with M. Gunderson, in Proceedings of the 15th Annual AIRAANZ Conference, Di Kelly (ed.), University of Wollongong, NSW, Australia, 2001. pp. 179-180.

"Social, Political and Economic Environments," with Noah Meltz, in Union-Management Relations in Canada, 4th ed., M. Gunderson, A. Ponak, and D. Taras (eds.), Toronto: Pearson Education Canada, 2001. pp. 142-174.

"Are Seniority Based Layoffs Discriminatory?: The Adverse Impact of Layoffs on Designated Groups and Implications for Worksharing," with Gangaram Singh, Industrial Relations/Relations Industrielles, Vol. 53, No. 4 (Fall 1998), 730-749.

"Explaining Nursing Turnover Intent: Job Satisfaction, or Organizational Commitment," with L. Lum, J. Kervin, K. Clark, and W. Sirola, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Vol. 19 (1998), 305-320.

Abolishing  Compulsory Retirement in Australia: Assessing the Impact," Australian Journal of Labour Economics, Vol. 8, No. 1 (March 1996), 25-42.

"Working Less and Enjoying it More," in Family Security in Insecure Times: New Foundations, David Ross (ed.), Ottawa: National Forum on Family Security, 1996.

"Strikes in the Public Sector," with M. Gunderson, in Public Sector Collective Bargaining in Canada: Beginning of the End or End of the Beginning? G. Swimmer and M. Thompson (eds.), Kingston: IRC Press, 1995.

Courses Taught at the CIRHR

IRE 1010H Economic Environment of IR/HR