In a recent essay for the German news magazine Der Spiegel , Rolph Dahrendorf, head of the London School of Economics, as something of an “outsider” to the British IR scene, stated:

Industrial relations on the British pattern have always been, and probably always will be, a messy area — a complex mish mash of institutions, systems and procedures interlaced with the variances of human behaviour and organisational structure and control. And this situation persists even...

In the first article of this series I posed some of the fundamental questions which I felt that trainers seriously concerned with industrial relations should ask themselves. This article moves on to more practical considerations, particularly those related to the actual planning of industrial...

Previous articles in this series have dealt with developing effective training strategies and discussed the role of the trainer in relation to a process of industrial relations change. The use of particular training methods and techniques can thus be seen as the last link in this chain;...

Recently a large food manufacturing company approached the Food Drink and Tobacco Industry Training Board's advisers who specialise in industrial relations training for assistance in setting up a training programme for their junior management. Its purpose was to help them influence more...