Partnership and Modernisation in Employment Relations

ISBN-13: 9780415304313 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 294 str.

Mark Stuart; Migual Martinez Lucio

Opis

This volume brings together a comprehensive assessment of the partnership approach to employment relations. Partnership represents an attempt to shift the culture of employment relations away from zero-sum and adversarial relationships. Within the British context, it has formed a critical part of the Labour government's new employment policy and forms a key underpinning of its modernisation of employment relations. It has also been seen as central to the debate around trade union renewal and revitalisation. Partnership and Modernisation in Employment Relations addresses three broad and related sets of questions. First, do partnership-style employment relations contribute to high performance management and economic improvement? Second, what are the consequences of partnership for trade union policy and practice and the institutional relations forged with employers? Third, is there a political and regulatory basis for new co-operative employment relations? present conceptually grounded studies that explore the key dimensions of partnership in terms of the economic, organisational, social and political imperatives for the modernisation of employment relations.

Spis treści

1. Partnership and the Modernisation of Employment Relations: An Introduction  2. Partnership and Voice, With or Without Trade Unions: Changing  UK Management Approaches to Organisational Participation  3. Assessing Partnership Approaches to Lifelong Learning: 'A New and Modern Role for Trade Unions'?   4. Working Corporations: Corporate Governance and Innovation in Labour-Management Partnerships in Britain   5. Developing Partnership Relationships: A Case of Leveraging Power   6. Trade Union Representatives’ Attitudes and Experiences of the Principles and Practices of Partnership   7. Management and Union Motives in the Negotiation of Partnership: A Case Study of Process and Outcome at an Engineering Company   8. The Promotion and Prospects of Partnership at Inland Revenue: Employer and Union Hand in Hand?   9. Breaking with, and Breaking, ‘Partnership’: The Case of the Postal Workers and Royal Mail in Britain   10. Seeking Partnership for the Contingent Workforce   11. Social Partnership Agreements in Britain   12. Employees’ Experiences of Workplace Partnership in the Private and Public Sector   13. Workplace Partnership and the Search for Dual Commitment  14. Whose (Social) Partnership  15. Where Next for Partnership?

O autorze

Miguel Martinez Lucio, Mark Stuart