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The question of health and safety at work is a central issue for trade unions. In Britain it is an area of concern where there were important legislative initiatives in the 1970s and 1980s, although surprisingly this has received relatively little attention in the debates about trade unionism....
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combined to undermine the organization’s stated intent to expand significantly the number of women in management. Suggests that … consequences for management careers.  …
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Analyses, critically, the interest in “knowledge work” and the “knowledge age”. Arguing that definitions of “knowledge work” and predictions regarding the future trajectories of knowledge organizations are characterized by confusion and ambiguity, calls for a quite different form of...
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on trade union responses to team working, and likewise impact on management’s ability to adopt a sustained approach …
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Reviews reward management practice in the construction industry, based on a postal survey of larger construction firms …. The research results provide little evidence of thorough‐going use of reward management to encourage and reinforce … little evidence of developed performance management systems. The absence of more formalized reward systems may provide a …
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sense of injustice, they must believe management is responsible and they must hold negative views of management. Data from …
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the effective management of discipline can contribute to positive workplace relationships. It argues that the punitive … that valuable and relevant insights can be provided by McGregor’s classic study on management. Finally, the article … describe and prescribe four distinct types of management conduct in disciplinary situations.  …
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In 1997 the Management Charter Initiative (MCI) officially launched the new management NVQs (National Vocational … qualifications. It remembers some of the main problems associated with the original management NVQs and, drawing on some of the best …
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EWCs can have on the management of MNCs. It highlights how management information systems, organisational structures and …
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Presents a case study concerning the attempts of a particular group of managers to implement an “empowered” system of working within their organization. Rejecting managerialist accounts of empowerment as distorted representations of social processes and social action, the paper investigates...
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