Employee Relations: Volume 18 Issue 5

Employee involvement and industrial relations reform: reviewing a decade of experience in Australia

Edward M. Davis, Russell D. Lansbury

The past decade has witnessed a wide range of industrial relations reforms in Australia. Employee participation and industrial democracy was espoused by the federal Labour…

Organizational change and women managers’ careers: the restructuring of disadvantage?

Christine Edwards, Jean Woodall, Rosemary Welchman

Challenges the assumption implicit in much of the literature on women managers that their failure to progress can be explained solely in terms of the individual behaviour of women…

Creating and replicating HRM on greenfield sites: rhetoric or reality?

Jerry Hallier, John Leopold

Greenfield sites have been seen as the most favourable setting for the adoption of human resource management (HRM). Presents a study of two greenfield employers’ attempts to…

Employee relations in small firms in Ireland: An exploratory study of small manufacturing firms

Juliet MacMahon

Claims that the understanding of employer‐employee relations in the small enterprise is essential in Ireland where firms employing less than 100 people account for 92 per cent of…