Purpose – The paper seeks to investigate the effects of the 2004 Central and East European EU Enlargement on labour mobility. Design/methodology/approach – The paper is based on an analysis of recently available empirical evidence from the UK Labour Registration Scheme and EU comparative...

The emergence in the post‐war period of industrial relations as a rapidly growing field of study was a consequence of the subject becoming increasingly defined as a “problem”. During the 1950s and 60s the increasing level of strike activity, especially unofficial and unconstitutional...

In reviewing the personnel management literature, this article argues that promotion has been a very neglected area, especially in Britain. Personnel management writers have tended to assume that most appointments are made by recruitment from the external labour market, even though many...

An article in the last issue of this journal examined the literature on seniority promotion systems, arguing that most personnel management writers had ignored promotion as a topic area, tending to assume implicitly that most appointments are made from the external labour market. And yet many...