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The contingencies of partnership
Cooney, Richard - In: Employee Relations 24 (2002) 3, pp. 321-334
This paper examines the development of an antecedent model of social partnership, the social “accord” employed by the Labor Government in Australia during the period 1983‐1996. The specific focus of the paper is upon the implementation of the Training Reform Agenda (TRA) in Australian...
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The GPMU and graphical and paper trade unions in central and eastern Europe
Hayward, Geoff - In: Employee Relations 27 (2005) 6, pp. 555-565
role that education and training has played in helping them develop free and effective trade unions capable of operating in …. Trade union education and training over the past 15 years has created confident and capable trade union organisations who …
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Implementation of the performance‐related pay in the general educational schools of Estonia
Irs, Reelika; Türk, Kulno - In: Employee Relations 34 (2012) 4, pp. 360-393
Purpose – The article aims to provide an insight into the perspectives and possibilities of implementing the performance‐related pay in the Estonian general educational schools. It also aims to test two propositions regarding factors that influence school performance and teachers' and school...
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The perceived importance of core soft skills between retailing and tourism management students, faculty and businesses
Wesley, Scarlett C.; Jackson, Vanessa Prier; Lee, Minyoung - In: Employee Relations 39 (2017) 1, pp. 79-99
Purpose Soft skills which are a combination of personal qualities and interpersonal skills that help an employer perform their job are an increasingly important concern to businesses and academia, the purpose of this paper is to determine how students ranked the importance of soft skills and...
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Competence, performance and trainability of older workers of higher educational institutions in Malaysia
Hashim, Junaidah; Wok, Saodah - In: Employee Relations 36 (2013) 1, pp. 82-106
higher education sector aged between 55 and 60 years old. Findings – Based on the assessments made by the older workers … important factors as they are found related to performance. This study focuses on education sector. It would be interesting to … include older workers from other sectors because the education sector is perceived to be less physically demanding. Practical …
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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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What shapes HRM? A multivariate examination
Bin Othman, Rozhan; Poon, June M.L. - In: Employee Relations 22 (2000) 5, pp. 467-480
The link between business strategy and human resource management (HRM) practices has received considerable attention from researchers. It is generally believed that integrating strategy and HRM will result in positive organizational outcomes. The empirical evidence for the strategy‐HRM...
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Employee commitment: academic vs practitioner perspectives
Shepherd, Jeryl L.; Mathews, Brian P. - In: Employee Relations 22 (2000) 6, pp. 555-575
Employee commitment has been extensively researched by academics. Theories about commitment towards the organisation have enjoyed much interest. The concept is a central part of HR models. Research to date, however, has not examined the extent to which such “academic” perspectives are...
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The name has changed but has the game remained the same?
Armstrong, Michael - In: Employee Relations 22 (2000) 6, pp. 576-593
The article argues that many of the practices associated with the concept of human resource management were flourishing under different names before the notion of HRM emerged in the mid‐1980s. There have been many developments in these practices but they have been evolutionary. They have not...
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