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HRM, Employee Relations And The Labour Market
Gunnigle, Patrick - 2002
The transition from school to work: a European perspectiveIn general, a person's employment and educational biographies do not alwaysrun smoothly and in only one direction. Interruptions often occur, or theindividual may begin to move in different or new directions
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Problematising the interplay between employment relations, migration and mobility
Rodriguez, Jenny K.; Mearns, Lesley - In: Employee Relations 34 (2012) 6, pp. 580-593
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to introduce the special issue by problematising labour agency, precariousness …, and labour fragmentation as defining themes of the interplay between employment relations, migration and mobility. Design … together theory and research on employment relations and labour migration, the paper discusses the relational spatial and …
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Company labour flexibility strategies in The Netherlands: an institutional perspective
Looise, Jan C.; van Riemsdijk, Maarten; de Lange, Frans - In: Employee Relations 20 (1998) 5, pp. 461-482
Despite important differences in labour flexibility patterns in different countries and despite clear indications of … between the institutional context and the HRM of companies. This paper seeks to address this issue with regard to labour … flexibility strategies and reveals a promising approach to learning how the development of a topic, such as labour flexibility …
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Line Managers, Human Resource Specialists and Technical Change
Clark, Jon - In: Employee Relations 15 (1993) 3, pp. 22-28
Draws on findings from recent survey and case study evidence to identify key aspects of the relation between technical change and human resource management. Begins by examining the primary role played by general and line managers in managing advanced technical change. Also highlights the...
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Information Technology and the Quality Gap
Brooke, Carole - In: Employee Relations 16 (1994) 4, pp. 22-34
process. Highlights that so‐called “quality methods” distance individuals from their acts of labour. Human resource concerns …
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Why do firms adopt employee share ownership? Bundling ESO and direct involvement for developing human capital investments
Guery, Loris - In: Employee Relations 37 (2015) 3, pp. 296-313
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between employee share ownership (ESO) and employer-provided training. To be more specific, as both ESO and involvement practices can contribute to developing human capital, the paper addresses the question of whether they are...
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Competitive tendering in NHS catering: a suitable policy?
Kelliher, Clare - In: Employee Relations 18 (1996) 3, pp. 62-76
assumptions being met about the extent of competitive pressure and the potential for savings, largely labour cost savings, to be … labour cost savings could be made.  …
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Labour‐standard setting and regional trading blocs
Teague, Paul - In: Employee Relations 25 (2003) 5, pp. 428-452
This paper examines the labour‐standard‐setting institution associated with NAFTA, the North American Agreement on … Labour Cooperation (NAALC), sometimes referred to as the Labour Side Accord. The agreement is best described as a tri …‐national institutional arrangement that grafts formal international procedures onto domestic labour market regimes. This feature ensures that …
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The uncertain road to partnership
Martin, Graeme; Pate, Judy; Beaumont, Phil; Murdoch, Alan - In: Employee Relations 25 (2003) 6, pp. 594-612
This paper examines the problems involved in developing collective bargaining in the traditionally non‐union environment of the strategically important UK offshore oil industry. In doing so it provides evidence on the success of the “new”, stakeholder industrial relations environment...
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Investigating work‐family policy aims and employee experiences
McDonald, Paula; Guthrie, Diane; Bradley, Lisa; … - In: Employee Relations 27 (2005) 5, pp. 478-494
Purpose – This study seeks systematically to investigate the extent to which the documented aims of formal work‐family policies are being achieved at the level of individual employees. Design/methodology/approach – Consistency between policy and practice in the case study organization was...
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