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Hyman, J.; Ramsay, H.; Leopold, J.; Baddon, L.; Hunter, L.C. - In: Employee Relations 11 (1989) 4, pp. 9-16

There has been a considerable amount of interest in employee share ownership schemes in the last few years, and this has been mirrored by an increase in publications relating to the subject. However, the authors argue that this literature leaves much to be desired, in particular in its implicit...

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Problems with Team Briefing in Practice

Marchington, Mick; Parker, Philip; Prestwich, Alan - In: Employee Relations 11 (1989) 4, pp. 21-30

There is little doubt that team briefing represents an increasingly extensive technique for employee involvement in British organisations. The problems and tensions which arose in three different establishments with their systems for team briefing are presented and a number of concerns about the...

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Unions on the Margin?

Marchington, Mick - In: Employee Relations 12 (1990) 5, pp. 2-24

Discussions about the position of British trade unions under Thatcherism continue to interest scholars and practitioners in the UK, and a variety of theories have been put forward which suggest that unions are becoming increasingly marginal to workplace employee relations. Three of these are...

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Workers′ Objectives in Quality Improvement

Brossard, Michel - In: Employee Relations 12 (1990) 6, pp. 11-16

The purpose of the article is to show, through a case study, that the reasons motivating members and non‐members of a quality circle to improve quality are not limited to those formulated in the literature. We thereby concur with Fiona Wilson who, in an article published in a recent issue of...

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Mismanagement and Quality Circles: How Middle Managers Influence Direct Participation

Brennan, Maire - In: Employee Relations 13 (1991) 5, pp. 22-32

Despite the optimism which surrounded the advent of quality circles a decade ago, recent research suggests that there are few programmes still functioning. The data on which this article is based were collected in five organisations in central Scotland in the period 1983‐86, when quality...

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Strike Action in a Self‐managed Enterprise: The Ravne Iron Works – A Case Study

Kavcic, Bogdan; Cibron, Andreja - In: Employee Relations 14 (1992) 1, pp. 48-63

A detailed account is given of a strike during December 1987 in a umber of production and support units of the Ravne Iron Works, located in Slovenia, and run under workers′ self‐management, according to the laws in force at that time. The phenomenon of the strike is initially examined in the...

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The Myth of Post‐Fordist Management: Work Organization and Employee Discretion in Seven Countries

Boreham, Paul - In: Employee Relations 14 (1992) 2, pp. 13-24

the contemporary workplace is characterized by management practices which might be termed post‐Fordist, involving an … extension of employee discretion and autonomy, or whether traditional practices of direct hierarchical control are more in … evidence. Data suggests that the latter practices are more likely to prevail in all of the countries examined despite …

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The Long and Winding Road: Tracking Employee Involvement at Brown′s Woven Carpets

Ackers, Peter; Marchington, Mick; Wilkinson, Adrian; … - In: Employee Relations 14 (1992) 3, pp. 56-70

illustrates how employee participation develops in successive “waves” – a major theme of the larger study. The firm has now …

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Human Resource Management in a Unified Germany

Wächter, Harmut; Stengelhofen, Theo - In: Employee Relations 14 (1992) 4, pp. 21-37

“corporatism”, worker participation, and the educational system (particularly the apprenticeship tradition). Although challenges …

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Managing Co‐operatively

Stirling, John; Mellor, Mary; Hannah, Janet - In: Employee Relations 9 (1987) 2, pp. 22-26

For many, co‐operatives represent a challenge to existing systems of industrial relations and organisation structure. However, many of the co‐operatives which have been formed in recent years do not approximate to this vision, since they have not been set up from an ideological standpoint....

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