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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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Quality management and HRM in the service industry: some case study evidence
Rees, Chris - In: Employee Relations 17 (1995) 3, pp. 99-109
Considers management views on the operation of quality management (QM) strategies in two service sector organizations, financial services and hotel and catering – based on open‐ended interviews with managerial staff. Considers some of the soft/HRM aspects of quality management. Finds that...
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Employee involvement in performance improvement
Crauise O′Brien, Rita - In: Employee Relations 17 (1995) 3, pp. 110-120
Presents summary findings from qualitative and quantitative research with six major British companies. The original intention was to look at the potential contribution of employee commitment to high quality performance, the difficulties of achieving that commitment and the relationship of the...
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Age influences on the leadership styles and behaviour of managers
Oshagbemi, Titus - In: Employee Relations 26 (2004) 1, pp. 14-29
This article explains reasons why the study of the relationship between leadership and age may be important and, using … a questionnaire survey to collect data from over 400 UK managers, it identifies age influences on the leadership styles … consultative and participative leadership styles. Older managers consulted more widely and favour more participation in comparison …
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Can Japanese mentoring enhance understanding of Western mentoring?
Iain Bright, Mark - In: Employee Relations 27 (2005) 4, pp. 325-339
Purpose – Aims to illustrate how Japan possesses cultural characteristics to support mentoring as a relationship, as opposed to the West, whose favoured approach is to view mentoring as a strategy. Design/methodology/approach – A comparative analysis of the mentoring literature from two...
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The interplay of structure and agency dynamics in strike activity
Darlington, Ralph - In: Employee Relations 34 (2012) 5, pp. 518-533
on the relationship between workers’ militancy, trade union leadership and left‐wing politics within a highly distinctive … approach, the role of trade union leadership and left‐wing politics at every level of the union in collectivising workers …
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Labour flexibility in SMEs: the impact of leadership
Mesu, Jos; Van Riemsdijk, Maarten; Sanders, Karin - In: Employee Relations 35 (2012) 2, pp. 120-138
leadership, and labour flexibility within small to medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs). Using a sample comprising 755 employees … transformational and transactional leadership on the one hand, and temporal and functional flexibility on the other. Further, to test … authors used multilevel analysis for hypothesis testing. Findings – Both dimensions of transformational leadership, visionary …
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Union militancy during economic hardship
Bithymitris, Giorgos - In: Employee Relations 38 (2016) 3, pp. 373-389
empirical material. Findings – The HH case indicates that certain collective identities and leadership qualities account for …
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HRM in UK hotels: a focus on commitment
McGunnigle, Peter J.; Jameson, Stephanie M. - In: Employee Relations 22 (2000) 4, pp. 403-422
Explores human resource management (HRM) and the established relationships between HRM, the management of “commitment cultures”, the recruitment and selection procedures, and the training and development practices considered necessary to develop employee commitment. The literature suggests...
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Benchmarking HRM and the benchmarking of benchmarking
Rodwell, John J.; Lam, Jeremy; Fastenau, Maureen - In: Employee Relations 22 (2000) 4, pp. 356-374
Organisations with low absenteeism and low turnover can be distinguished from organisations with high absenteeism and turnover through the identification and implementation of sophisticated and strategic best practices such as benchmarking relative cost position, developing a corporate ethic,...
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