This article assesses the adoption and survival of labour-management partnership agreements in Britain. In contrast to … predictions that British employers will avoid partnership agreements, significantly more agreements have been signed than expected … with 248 partnership agreements signed between 1990 and 2007. Partnership agreements covered almost ten percent of all …

Offering a critical assessment of the main conceptual debates concerning labour management partnership and cooperation … partnership, and the aim is to develop collaborative relationships between unions, employers and employee representatives for the … continental European nations, partnership approaches have attracted increasing attention in recent decades in the liberal market …

aim of the study was to assess how the agreement of a partnership arrangement in 1995 had affected the conduct of … employment relations. The study found that partnership was born out of a poor industrial relations climate, and driven primarily … workforce, and increase employee contribution. Partnership was not intended to encourage joint governance or power sharing. In …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the roles and influence of shop stewards under workplace partnership … partnership relationships. Design/methodology/approach – A framework is utilised which analyses the scope, breadth and depth of … union influence in terms of the structure of partnership processes and the capacity of agency to affect relations among shop …