A.I.R. Swabe and Patricia Price
The authors examine the lack of trade union membership in building societies. To form conclusions as to reasons for this lack of representation they look at the period from 1971…
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The authors examine the lack of trade union membership in building societies. To form conclusions as to reasons for this lack of representation they look at the period from 1971. The emergence of staff associations and the employers' obvious reluctance to allow TUC union representation in their organisations are held to be responsible in part. The authors then discuss TUC unions' current strategies such as mergers with staff associations, and consider the possibilities for the future.
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The librarian and researcher have to be able to uncover specific articles in their areas of interest. This Bibliography is designed to help. Volume IV, like Volume III, contains…
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The librarian and researcher have to be able to uncover specific articles in their areas of interest. This Bibliography is designed to help. Volume IV, like Volume III, contains features to help the reader to retrieve relevant literature from MCB University Press' considerable output. Each entry within has been indexed according to author(s) and the Fifth Edition of the SCIMP/SCAMP Thesaurus. The latter thus provides a full subject index to facilitate rapid retrieval. Each article or book is assigned its own unique number and this is used in both the subject and author index. This Volume indexes 29 journals indicating the depth, coverage and expansion of MCB's portfolio.
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Performance‐related pay (PRP) is becoming a fashionable concept inBritain nowadays, but there is a shortage of detailed examination of howsuch systems work in practice. To help…
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Performance‐related pay (PRP) is becoming a fashionable concept in Britain nowadays, but there is a shortage of detailed examination of how such systems work in practice. To help alleviate this, a case study is presented of a scheme introduced into a company in the financial services sector. Although PRP may offer a way forward for companies seeking to maximise productivity from wage costs, there is no guarantee that it will prove adaptable enough to survive far into the future.
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Through a survey of 200 employees working in five of the thirty establishments analysed in previous research about the microeconomic effects of reducing the working time (Cahier…
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Through a survey of 200 employees working in five of the thirty establishments analysed in previous research about the microeconomic effects of reducing the working time (Cahier 25), the consequences on employees of such a reduction can be assessed; and relevant attitudes and aspirations better known.
Industrial relations in the finance sector has always exhibited rather special features; a virtually exclusive white collar work force dispersed in numerous branch offices;…
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Industrial relations in the finance sector has always exhibited rather special features; a virtually exclusive white collar work force dispersed in numerous branch offices; relatively high unionisation with membership split between TUC‐affiliated unions and in‐house staff associations; higher than average pay settlements in recent years and early experience of computerisation. Building societies share many of these features, but three aspects make industrial relations particularly fascinating in this sector. Unionisation has only become extensive in the top 30 societies in the last five years and, in many respects, has yet to mature. More importantly, there are no TUC‐affiliated unions represented in the largest societies. Thus this is an industry uniquely dominated by staff associations, many of which have only recently been formed and awarded Certificates of Independence. Thirdly, there are good grounds for predicting that market and growth conditions in the next decade will be markedly different from the conditions of rapid growth experienced in the 1970s when the staff association movement began.
Suggests that heightening competition within the pharmaceutical sector means that improving performance in R&D is increasingly important. One approach to achieving this is to…
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Suggests that heightening competition within the pharmaceutical sector means that improving performance in R&D is increasingly important. One approach to achieving this is to consider the introduction of financial incentives within reward systems. Considers the evidence for the success of performance‐related pay (PRP) systems arising from the relatively few empirical accounts available. Concludes that there is little concrete evidence that PRP improves the performance of either individuals or organizations. Concedes that where it can be demonstrated that employees are satisfied with a PRP system we might expect them to be motivated and this should have positive results on performance. Considers the operation of the PRP system within the research division of a major UK‐based multinational pharmaceutical company. Looks in detail at management operation of, and employee responses to, the system. Concludes that not only is it unpopular but it may have potentially serious dysfunctional side‐effects in an R&D environment.
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Linda C. Tallberg, Peter J. Jordan and Maree Boyle
The purpose of this paper is to discuss emotions within a highly emotive organizational setting through the use of crystallization. The authors contend that the expression of a…
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The purpose of this paper is to discuss emotions within a highly emotive organizational setting through the use of crystallization. The authors contend that the expression of a researcher's positionality as a presence within their research is crucial in contexts where conventional research approaches are unable to capture the depth of the phenomenon under study. The paper argues that the presentation of research findings from highly emotional organizational context will benefit from a challenge to traditional ways of representing and communicating the researcher's experience. As an example of this, in this paper the authors examine the emotions involved in experiencing animal euthanasia in a work context.
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The paper draws ethnographic methods of fieldwork in an Australian animal shelter. The paper uses autoethnography and interview data.
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Euthanasia is one of the most tolling experiences for animal shelter workers. This paper reveals that through a creative representation this experience may come induce understanding of the emotive context. Furthermore, the employees adapt one or more story-lines to deal with the conflict of euthanasia.
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The strength of this paper is that it uses a novel approach to present findings in the form of crystallization. It also furthers insight on how organizational members explain their involvement in emotive work-tasks.
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Performance‐related pay schemes which link salary to the result of an individual appraisal of performance in the job, have spread extensively over the past ten years. Draws on a…
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Performance‐related pay schemes which link salary to the result of an individual appraisal of performance in the job, have spread extensively over the past ten years. Draws on a national survey of trade unions and survey and case study data from local governement to examine the extent to which the spread of such schemes has been associated with union de‐recognition. Concludes that in many cases unions have been excluded from influence over performance‐related pay and suggests that there may well be a cost for employers in union de‐recognition as schemes appear less rigorous and more informal where there is an absence of union influence.