Collective industrial relations are crumbling. Alternatives include employee involvement and authoritarian forms of workplace governance. Uses evidence from the third workplace industrial relations survey to analyse associations between these different types of governance and workplace performance.

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...

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...

An in‐depth, qualitative study of managers and accountants in a large Australian metropolitan banking organisation investigated the problems experienced by those responsible for the implementation of their organisation′s Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) guidelines. Two major elements were...

Purpose – The purpose of this article is to understand better how specific conditions such as the degree of trust developed from previous negotiations, the level of expertise/style demonstrated by the negotiators, the clarity of the bargaining issues and the ability of facilitators to use...

Purpose – The purpose of this editorial is to examine the internal procedure for negotiations at multinational company level devised by the European Metalworkers Federation. Design/methodology/approach – The editorial outlines the EU Commission's social agenda between 2000 and 2010,...

The 1965 Redundancy Payments Act was amended by the 1975 Employment Protection Act to give substantial rights to trade unions to challenge managerial decisions on redundancies. These included advance warning of impending redundancies, the right to make representations to the employer, and to...