Employee Relations: Volume 21 Issue 5

The “new” European social model: the end of the search for an orthodoxy or another false dawn?

Keith Sisson

There appears to be some doubt about the future direction of both the theory and the practice of employment relations. This article therefore speculates about the prospects of the…

Transaction costs in human resource management – Interaction and interdependence with organisational structure

Hans Jürgen Drumm

Classical transaction cost theory is not applicable to decisions on HRM or organizational design. This article overcomes such a fruitless situation. First on an operative level…

Decentralisation and flexibility in Greek industrial relations

Stella Kufidu, Dimitrios Mihail

Labour flexibility is a central theme of management’s rhetoric in Greece. At the same time the securing of greater flexibility has been identified by policy makers as a central…

Gender differences in company training: the case of Taiwanese high‐tech firms

Tung‐Chun Huang

Previous studies have examined the impact of gender on training opportunities, but only within the context of Western societies. This study explores the effect of gender on access…