Employee Relations: Volume 23 Issue 2

Tourism employment: contingent work or professional career?

Anne‐Mette Hjalager, Steen Andersen

The period 1980‐1995 saw the emergence of a more professional Danish tourist sector, with increasing numbers of both employees and entrepreneurs possessing a formal degree or…

A path analysis of gender, race, and job complexity as determinants of intention to look for work

Sean R. Valentine

The relationships between intention to look for work and gender, race, and job complexity are assessed using a national sample of working young adults in the USA (n = 3,622). The…

The road to partnership? ‐ Forcing change in the UK further education sector; from “college incorporation” and “competition” to “accommodation and compliance”?

Frank Burchill

Examines change in the further education (FE) sector since the incorporation in 1993 and its effects on aspects of human resource management (HRM) and, in particular, on employee…

Partnership as union strategy: a preliminary evaluation

Peter Haynes, Michael Allen

Two general viewpoints on workplace “partnership” as a union strategy are identified: it is seen as either a potentially effective strategy for restoring union influence, or as…

Size and HRM in the Spanish manufacturing industry

José Alberto Bayo‐Moriones, Javier Merino‐Díaz de Cerio

Attempts to discover any possible links between company size and the handling of human resource management (HRM) in the case of Spanish industrial production workers. The data…

The Insecure Workforce

Kirsty Newsome

All Change at Work? British Employment Relations 1980‐98, Portrayed by the Workplace Industrial Relations Survey Series

Paul Thompson

The Realities of Human Resource Management: Managing the Employment Relationship

Jeff Hyman