Dr Sarah Kaine lectures in HRM and IR in the UTS Business School. Her research focuses on several broad themes: employee representation, the development and exercise of employee voice, the formal and informal regulation of employment relations and HRM and sustainability. Specifically Sarah is interested in innovation in employment regulation – beyond the bounds of traditional labour law, Corporate Social Responsibility and its link to industrial relations and the role of leadership in promoting sustainability and CSR. Prior to becoming an academic Sarah worked as an industrial relations practitioner and a consultant to not-for-profit organisations.
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