Employee Relations: Volume 22 Issue 5

Quality management and trade unions in local government – Demonstrating social partnership?

Ian Roper

This article explores the implementation of quality management initiatives in four local authorities and considers how far such a scenario offers a possibility for social…

What shapes HRM? A multivariate examination

Rozhan Bin Othman, June M.L. Poon

The link between business strategy and human resource management (HRM) practices has received considerable attention from researchers. It is generally believed that integrating…

“Labouring to learn”: organisational learning and mutual gains

Patricia Findlay, Alan McKinlay, Abigail Marks, Paul Thompson

Research on organisational learning is limited in three ways; in terms of the type of organisation and the type of employees which are seen to benefit from a learning culture; and…

Exploring changes in the organisation of work in the graphical industry – Threats to union organisation

Kirsty Newsome

This article is concerned with exploring changes in the organisation of work in the graphical industry. The aim is to examine the link between employer attempts to restructure…

Transformation at Work in the New Market Economies of Central Eastern Europe

Roderick Martin

Personnel Management : A Comprehensive Guide to Theory and Practice (3rd ed.)

Ian Beardwell