Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 290
Cover Image
Human Resource Management in Ireland
Gunnigle, Patrick - In: Employee Relations 14 (1992) 5, pp. 5-22
Considers the nature of Human Resource Management (HRM) in the Republic of Ireland. Identifies four variants of HRM in … Ireland: “soft” HRM; neo‐pluralism; “hard” HRM; and traditional industrial relations. Then considers key areas of HRM policy … function in Ireland using a HRM typology. Evaluates the evidence of change in HRM practice with a particular focus on key …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014731443
Cover Image
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
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012675431
Cover Image
Unfair dismissals in Australia: does arbitration help employees?
Chelliah, John; D'Netto, Brian - In: Employee Relations 28 (2006) 5, pp. 483-495
federal legislation and to assess whether employees benefit from arbitration. Design/methodology/approach – This research …. Findings – The findings of this study indicate that 50.6 per cent of arbitration decisions were in favour of employees and only … harmonious workplace. Employees do not benefit much from arbitration and have little chance of reclaiming their jobs. Reaching a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014731110
Cover Image
Contemporary workplace occupations in Britain
Gall, Gregor - In: Employee Relations 33 (2011) 6, pp. 607-623
Purpose – This paper aims to examine the more militant response of a minority of workers to collective redundancy and restructuring in Britain since 2007. Design/methodology/approach – The paper deploys secondary sources to develop a series of grounded micro‐factors to help explain the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014731308
Cover Image
Obstacles to Japanisation: The Case of Ford UK
Wilkinson, Barry; Oliver, Nick - In: Employee Relations 12 (1990) 1, pp. 17-21
The issues and dilemmas facing companies, their unions and their workers as they attempt to emulate Japanese‐style production practices are discussed. Using the case of Ford UK as an example, the causes and effects of the 1988 strike and the withdrawal from the proposed electronics plant at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014731386
Cover Image
Managing New Technology and Workplace Relations
Willcocks, Leslie; Mason, David - In: Employee Relations 12 (1990) 3, pp. 3-11
How have managers handled the industrial relations ramifications of information technology? There is a diversity of approaches within an overall framework of employee acceptance of the need for technological change. However, the introduction of ew technology is rarely handled strategically in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014731387
Cover Image
Repeal of the National Dock Labour Scheme: Britain′s Ports in an Era of Industrial Relations Change
Finney, Nicholas - In: Employee Relations 12 (1990) 4, pp. 10-16
Based on a talk first given to the Manchester Industrial Relations Society, the process of change is charted – especially in recent times – in Britain′s ports. In particular, a detailed analysis is provided of the moves by the port employers to repeal the National Dock Labour Scheme, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014731403
Cover Image
To Punish or Not to Punish? Managing Human Resources through ″Positive Discipline″
Osigweh, Chimezie A.B.; Hutchison, William R. - In: Employee Relations 12 (1990) 3, pp. 27-32
described that is performance based and allows individual employees the opportunity, through a day′s paid absence, to make their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014731404
Cover Image
The Legal Mystification of Industrial Relations
Welch, Roger - In: Employee Relations 13 (1991) 4, pp. 9-15
Providing workers with rights to take strike and other forms of industrial action is an issue of fundamental concern for trade unionists and everyone involved in industrial relations. Naturally, debate focuses on what rights trade unions and their members should have and what limits (if any)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014731407
Cover Image
The Other Side of the Equation – The Demands of Women on Re‐entering the Labour Market
Healy, Geraldine; Kraithman, David - In: Employee Relations 13 (1991) 3, pp. 17-28
The recent interest in women returning to, or increasing their, labour market participation has largely ignored the skills and aspirations of women themselves. This article is based on a survey of mothers of young children in a fairly prosperous part of the South East of the UK. Research...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014731419