In the service of the society: The labour management practices of an Australian life Insurer to 1940

Monica Keneley ()

Business History, 2006, vol. 48, issue 4, 529-550

Abstract: This article considers the labour management practices in use in the Australian life insurance industry during the inter-war period. Using the Australian Mutual Provident as a case study, it is argued that the specific human resource management practices evolved to deal with separate sets of problems arising from the functions of the life insurance business and the manner in which the principal/agent problem was manifested. The differing nature of work associated with the sales and management of life insurance fostered the development of primary and secondary labour markets in which the benefits flowing to one were superior to those accruing to the other.

Keywords: Australian Life Insurance; Labour Management; Internal Labour Markets; Life Insurance Clerks; Life Insurance Agents (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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