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Some Comments on Current Labour Law
Terry SullivanSince 1970 the British industrial relations system has been injected with an unprecedented volume of law relating to employment. We have had the Equal Pay Act, 1970 and Sex…
The Sex Discrimination Act 1975 — File and Forget?
Janet S. Goodman, Virginia NovarraThis article seeks to assess the likely impact on British managers of the 1975 UK legislation prohibiting sex discrimination, drawing on experience from the United States. It will…
Stabilising Industrial Relations in a Multi‐Plant Footwear Company
E.G.A. Armstrong, J.F.B. Goodman, J.E. Davis, A. WagnerThis article derives from a research project supported by the Social Science Research Council, the results of which appear in a book, Rule Making and Industrial Peace. The article…
Power from Technology: Computer Staff and Industrial Relations
John Purcell, Lee Dalgleish, Juliet Harrison, Ian Lonsdale, Ian McConaghy, Alan RobertsonThe significance of computer technology in terms of industrial relations is an area which has been neglected in the proliferation of literature accompanying the computer boom…
The Economics of Modes of Employment
Edwin WhitingIt is generally recognised that the cost to a company or other organisation of employing people to work for them is considerably more than the actual wages or salaries paid. The…
Teaching and Learning Methods in Management Development
John Burgoyne, Roger StuartThe ‘design’ of management development programmes is usually seen by practitioners in the field as a matter of choosing the methods appropriate to the ‘content’ of what they want…
Manager/Subordinate Communication and Leadership Style: A Field Study of Their Relationship to Perceived Outcomes of Appraisal Interviews
Clive FletcherMost research on appraisal interviews has dealt with aspects of the interview itself. The study described here investigated the background to the interview — the day‐to‐day…
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hybridEditors:
- Professor Eddy Ng
- Professor Pauline Stanton