Employee Relations: Volume 18 Issue 1

Customer‐supplier relations and the diffusion of employee relations changes

P.B. Beaumont, L.C. Hunter, D. Sinclair

Describes the utility of supply chain partnerships as a mechanism for the diffusion of change in employee relations. Uses case study and survey evidence to explain the means by…

Institutional separation and the management of industrial relations: Evidence from a diachronic case study

Nicholas Kinnie

Uses the concept of institutional separation to examine changes in the management of industrial relations in an organization studied on two occasions ten years apart. Argues that…

Managing the changing psychological contract

Jean M. Hiltrop

Examines the human resource implications of organizational change and the use of human resource practices for building and maintaining organizational commitment. Highlights the…

Progress towards greater labour flexibility in Germany: The impact of recent reforms

Heinz‐Josef Tüselmann

Government and employers’ sources frequently emphasize that companies located in western Germany have traditionally been circumscribed in their pursuit of flexibility in staffing…

Getting personal in personnel recruitment

Brian P. Mathews, Tom Redman

Observes that the use of personal characteristics in job advertisements is discouraged within the prescriptive literature. Examines the extent to which advertisers for personnel…