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Partnership and modernisation in employment relations / edited by Mark Stuart and Miguel Martinez Lucio.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Routledge studies in employment relations ; 9.
- Routledge research in employment relations ; 9
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Industrial relations--Great Britain.
- Industrial relations.
- Management--Employee participation--Great Britain.
- Management.
- Labor unions--Great Britain.
- Labor unions.
- Labor policy--Great Britain.
- Labor policy.
- Industrial relations--Political aspects--Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (270 p.)
- Other Title:
- Partnership and modernization in employment relations
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This collection examines the significance of partnership-based approaches to the modernization of employment relations. Drawing from the work of leading researchers the contemporary interest in partnership is situated within an historical, political and practical context. Particular attention is given to exploring and understanding the practices and experiences of partnership at the workplace.
- Contents:
- BookCover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Contributors; 1 Partnership and modernisation in employment relations An introduction; 2 Partnership and voice, with or without trade unions Changing UK management approaches to organisational participation; 3 Assessing partnership approaches to lif elong learning 'A new and modern role for trade unions'?; 4 Working corporations; 5 Developing partnership relationships A case of leveraging power1; 6 Trade union representatives' attitudes and experiences of the principles and practices of partnership
- 7 Management and union motives in the negotiation of partnership8 The promotion and prospects of partnership at Inland Revenue Employer and union hand in hand?; 9 Breaking with, and breaking, 'partnership' The case of the postal workers and the Royal Mail in Britain; 10 Seeking partnership for the contingent workforce; 11 Social partnership agreements in Britain; 12 Employees' experiences of workplace partnership in the private and public sector; 13 Workplace partnership and the search for dual commitment; 14 Whose (social) partnership?; 15 Where next for partnership?; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-134-40862-5
- 0-429-23468-6
- 1-134-40863-3
- 1-280-22408-8
- 9786610224081
- 0-203-69438-4
- 9780429234682
- OCLC:
- 264489516
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