Employee Relations: Volume 22 Issue 1

The decline of cooling out applicant failure: Some adaptations to organizational changes by self‐regulating groups

Jerry Hallier, Philip James

Goffman’s concept of cooling out the mark (Goffman, E., “On cooling the mark out: some aspects of adaptation and failure”, Psychiatry: Journal of the Study of Interpersonal…

Organizing unionism comes to the UK

Edmund Heery, Melanie Simms, Dave Simpson, Rick Delbridge, John Salmon

The concept of an “organizing model” of trade unionism has shaped union strategies for revitalization in a number of countries in recent years. This article examines the transfer…

Evaluating HRM effectiveness: the stereotype connection

Stephen Gibb

The perspective and concern considered here is the internal‐subjective evaluation of HRM effectiveness. This involved investigating managers’ and employees’ perceptions about…

Public sector outsourcing: implications for training and skills

George Lafferty, Amanda Roan

Since the early 1980s, governments and policy makers in Australia have emphasized the importance of the national skills base to the attainment of international competitiveness…

Satisfaction with co‐workers’ behaviour

Titus Oshagbemi

While several publications exist on the topic of job satisfaction, little is known about satisfaction with co‐workers’ behaviour. This study investigates satisfaction with…

Labour Market Theory: A Constructive Reassessment

Don Bellante