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Trade union development in central and Eastern Europe : ""the velvet revolution"" European Union accession and beyond

Hayward, Geoff (contributor) - 2005

This unique ebook focuses on the development of 'free trade unions' in the former Soviet block countries. The contributors are writing from their own experiences, they lived in the 'old regime' and took part in the changes of the late 1980s' which ended the 'socialist experiment' and opened the...

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Advancing women's careers through leadership development programs

Clarke, Marilyn - In: Employee Relations 33 (2011) 5, pp. 498-515

Purpose – Women continue to be under‐represented at higher levels of management in organisations and on boards throughout Western industrialised countries despite more than 30 years of government policies and organisational practices designed to redress this imbalance. The problem is how to...

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Temporary agency workers shake a work community: a social capital perspective

Viitala, Riitta; Kantola, Jenni - In: Employee Relations 38 (2016) 2, pp. 147-162

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the kinds of effects that using a temporary agency workforce may cause on an organisational level, especially on relations between employees. In this study the authors explore the organisation as a community, leaning on the theory of social...

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Sociological factors influencing the practice of incident reporting: the case of the shipping industry

Bhattacharya, Syamantak - In: Employee Relations 34 (2011) 1, pp. 4-21

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present the ways in which underlying social and organisational factors and employment relations underpin the practice of incident reporting in the international shipping industry. Design/methodology/approach – The paper uses a qualitative case study...

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The changing nature of collective employment relations

Marginson, Paul - In: Employee Relations 37 (2015) 6, pp. 645-657

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to survey developments in four aspects of collective employment relations (ER) since the mid-1960s: collective representation and organisation; collective bargaining coverage and structure; the collective bargaining agenda; and joint consultation...

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HRM, Employee Relations And The Labour Market

Gunnigle, Patrick - 2002

The transition from school to work: a European perspectiveIn general, a person's employment and educational biographies do not alwaysrun smoothly and in only one direction. Interruptions often occur, or theindividual may begin to move in different or new directions

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Changing workplace relations in foreign investment firms in Poland

Hardy, Jane; Kozek, Wleslawa - In: Employee Relations 33 (2011) 4, pp. 375-394

research is based on interviews with senior managers and trade unions in 15 foreign investment firms in Poland. Findings … have a strong presence. Practical implications – Insights into workplace relations in Poland are provided which will be of … corporate structures in Poland and this article addresses their role in the workplace and their interrelationship with foreign …

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Neither poison nor panacea: shopfloor responses to TQM

Glover, Linda - In: Employee Relations 22 (2000) 2, pp. 121-141

While there has been much conjecture as to the implications of TQM for shopfloor workers, there have been relatively few studies that have investigated shopfloor responses to TQM via in‐depth interviews. Focuses on shopfloor workers who might have been expected to conform to the...

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Exploring changes in the organisation of work in the graphical industry – Threats to union organisation

Newsome, Kirsty - In: Employee Relations 22 (2000) 5, pp. 503-522

This article is concerned with exploring changes in the organisation of work in the graphical industry. The aim is to examine the link between employer attempts to restructure work and resilience of the prevailing machinery of collective regulation within the sector. It is structured around...

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Decision‐taking on human resource issues : Practices in building and civil engineering companies in Europe and their industrial relations consequences

Croucher, Richard; Druker, Jan - In: Employee Relations 23 (2001) 1, pp. 55-74

The article examines decision‐taking in European construction companies. It confirms the increasing importance of MNEs in the industry. The extent to which corporate decision‐taking on human resource matters in construction MNEs is distinctive and is examined. Construction MNEs show an...

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