Drawing on two waves of survey data collected from 250 Canadian firms in 2000 and 2004, this study examines union influence on the mix of compensation methods used by employers. As expected, firms with more unionization devoted a larger proportion of total compensation to indirect pay (also...

This study explores employee responses to individual performance management practices in two culturally dissimilar agencies of the federal public sector, the Department of Finance and Administration (DOFA) and the Australian Defence Force (Army). In so doing, it invokes Rousseau's distinction...

Far too little is known about how employees, as the subject of Human Resource Management (HRM), react to its practice. Both the performance-focused and critical streams of writing on HRM perceive the employee in instrumental terms, while neither stream provides a satisfactory means of...