Tim Morris, Helen Lydka and Mark Fenton O'Creevy present data on a group of graduates during the first five years of employment. Dividing the sample into those who have remained with their original employer and those who have changed, they examine attitudinal commitment and tenure intentions...

Throughout much of the 1980s, a picture of institutional continuity was drawn by many industrial relations researchers from large-scale surveys, which appeared at odds with reports of substantial change that other accounts documented. This paper explores how differences in the research...

Examines the financial impact of the strikes held in 1984-1985 in the mining industries on the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) of Great Britain. Background on the mining dispute; Structure of the NUM; Finances of NUM prior to 1984; Implications of membership size, costs of disputes and...

Information technology has tremendous potential as a tool of management in developing ever more sophisticated ways of handling management information. But it can never do away with the need for management, the process of using human ingenuity and creativity to come up with practical solutions to...

Examines union merger discussions in the clearing banks in London, England. Prospects and obstacles to the merger between the Banking Insurance and Finance Union and the Clearing Bank Union; Importance of ideological differences and the proposed distribution of power in the negotiations;...