Employee Relations: Volume 14 Issue 2

Part‐time Employees: Workers Whose Time has Come?

Linda Dickens

Part‐time workers (a quarter of all employees in Britain) are onesection of the “atypical” workforce singled out forattention by the EC Commission. Examines directives on atypical…

The Myth of Post‐Fordist Management: Work Organization and Employee Discretion in Seven Countries

Paul Boreham

Presents data from recent research examining work organization inseven countries. Addresses the question of whether the contemporaryworkplace is characterized by management…

Stress and Construction Site Managers: Issues for Europe 1992

Marilyn J. Davidson, Valerie J. Sutherland

Reports research by interview and questionnaire survey designed toidentify major sources of stress among site managers, to examine theirphysical and psychological well‐being, and…

Why Public Sector Workers Join Unions: An Attitude Survey of Workers in the Health Service and Local Government

Allan Kerr

Reports a nationwide questionnaire survey of health service andlocal government union and non‐union workers in the same workplacecarried out by NUPE to investigate what factors…

The Determinants of Trade Union Growth in Zambia since Independence

Thomas Turner

Explanations of union growth and decline are generally linked totrends in the business cycle which are reflected primarily in prices,wages and unemployment – an example of this…