Purpose – This paper aims at contributing to the debate on organisational citizenship behaviour (OCB) by developing a theory‐driven measure of cooperative behaviour within organisations, called organisational solidarity (OS). Design/methodology/approach – Data are gathered through a survey...

Purpose – This paper seeks to examine the impact of labor‐management partnership on organizational performance and industrial relations quality at Korean firms. Design/methodology/approach – Data were collected from 139 firms for organizational‐level research. Hierarchical regression...

Argues that because of a number of significant changes in the last ten years, individual issues such as grievance and discipline should now become more prominent concerns of industrial relations research. Some important differences which distinguish discipline and grievance are identified, and a...

Uses a longitudinal case study approach to analyse changes in industrial relations in a chemical company over the last decade. The authors argue that the concept of “waves” can be used to help understand developments during this period. The first wave related to the crisis of the early 1980s...

States that there has been much debate about the EC’s Social Charter but very little research on the implications for personnel managers. Personnel managers will be responsible for implementing the majority of Social Charter initiatives within their organizations. Based on the results from a...

Returns to a case study of a newspaper company introducing HRM presented five years earlier in this journal. Looks at all the editorial offices of the company and examines the extent to which the company has succeeded in implementing HRM and what this has meant for a key section of its...

Discusses the nature of employee development programmes (EDPs) and the use made of them by UK employers; examines the structure and operation of similar schemes developed jointly by management and union in the “big three” US car companies. Argues that these US EDP schemes, through their use...

Makes a critical examination of annual hours (AH), a relatively new development in industrial relations in Britain. First, considers the extent, sectoral distribution and development of AH before moving to examine the reasons why a growing number of employers are introducing this way of...

The decade has witnessed unprecedented interest in what has been seen as a radically new direction in the management of people in organisations: human resource management (HRM). HRM has, however, been bedevilled by controversy and ambiguity to the extent of being regarded as just another...