Employee Relations: Volume 30 Issue 5

Vaxholm/Laval case: its implementations for trade unions

John Gennard

The purpose of this editorial is to examine the implementations of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruling in December 2007 on the Laval case in Sweden for trade unions.

Union availability, union membership and immigrant workers: An empirical investigation of the Irish case

Thomas Turner, Daryl D'Art, Michelle O'Sullivan

The paper's purpose is to examine the propensity of recent immigrants to join Irish trade unions compared to Irish workers.

Evaluating and rewarding OCBs: Potential consequences of formally incorporating organisational citizenship behaviour in performance appraisal and reward systems

J. Bret Becton, William F. Giles, Mike Schraeder

The paper aims to address a topic that has not been systematically studied in the organisational citizenship behaviour (OCB), performance appraisal and rewards literature…

Representing fixed‐term workers: the anatomy of a trade union campaign

Hazel Conley, Paul Stewart

Drawing on literature that examines trade union representation of “non‐standard” workers, this paper aims to analyse the attempts of the Association of University Teachers (AUT…

Beatrice and Sidney Webb and the intellectual origins of British industrial relations

David Farnham

This paper has the aim of revisiting the works of Beatrice and Sidney Webb in the field of industrial relations and assessing their intellectual contributions to the study of the…

HRM and knowledge management

Ingi Runar Edvardsson

This paper sets out, first, to integrate HR strategies into knowledge management (KM) systems; second, to examine the type of HR strategies to be pursued and third, it looks at…

The Trades Union Congress and civil alliance building: towards social movement unionism?

Jane Parker

The purpose of this paper is to examine why and how the Trades Union Congress (TUC) – the labour movement's peak body, “think tank” and exemplar – engages in alliance building…