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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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Decision of union workers to participate in employee involvement: an application of the theory of planned behaviour

Dawkins, Cedric E.; Frass, John W. - In: Employee Relations 27 (2005) 5, pp. 511-531

/methodology/approach – Union workers at a small manufacturing company in the Midwestern United States completed two questionnaires. The first … and the degree to which they identified with their labour union. In the second questionnaire, the same respondents … identify heavily with the labour union (0.05 level), but did not moderate the effect of normative support on intention for …

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The OHS regulatory challenges posed by agency workers: evidence from Australia

Johnstone, Richard; Quinlan, Michael - In: Employee Relations 28 (2006) 3, pp. 273-289

posed by agency work/leased labour (also known as labour hire in Australasia), using Australian evidence. Design …/methodology/approach – The analysis is based on an examination of prosecutions involving labour hire firms along with other documentary records …‐2005. Findings – The triangular relationship entailed in labour leasing, in combination with the temporary nature of most placements …

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Procedures as a way of handling capability problems in the teaching profession and implications for more general application

Torrington, Derek - In: Employee Relations 28 (2006) 4, pp. 387-397

leadership as well as to the concept of emotional labour. Originality/value – The value of the work in this paper is to show how …

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Principles of employment relations in Islam: a normative view

Syed, Jawad; Ali, Abbas J. - In: Employee Relations 32 (2010) 5, pp. 454-469

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to describe a normative perspective of employment relations in Islam. Design/methodology/approach – The perspective on employment relations offered in this paper is based on a reading of the principal Islamic texts (the Qur'an and the hadith) and a...

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International trade union networks, European works' councils and international labour regimes

Stewart, Paul - In: Employee Relations 32 (2010) 6, pp. 533-537

, European works' councils and international labour regimes”. Design/methodology/approach – The editorial provides an overview …

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Does political culture matter for Europeanization?

Akan, Taner - In: Employee Relations 33 (2011) 3, pp. 221-248

Purpose – Contextualizing its argument specifically into the role and impact of the traditional political culture on the process of modernization, this paper aims to examine the “culture matters” approach through the two‐century experience of the top‐down modernization of the...

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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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