The Irish Airports Authority and its unions have developed a radical partnership initiative which seeks to involve staff and unions in operational and strategic decision-making. The initiative allows for an empirical assessment of arguments regarding the effects of partnership on union...

Advocates and critics of partnership have advanced a series of theoretical arguments in respect of the potential consequences for unions working under partnership arrangements. These include centralised decision-making and the alienation of lay activists. In the case study examined here...

1. Introduction -- 2. Recession, the labour market and the conduct of human resource management -- 3. Human resource management in the recession : results of survey of employers -- 4. Human resource managers : the effects of the recession and HR responses -- 5. Human resource managers : good...