Help wanted? Employers' use of temporary agencies in the UK construction industryEmployee Relations - Tập 30 Số 6 - Trang 679-698 - 2008
ChrisForde, RobertMacKenzie, AndrewRobinson
PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to explore the dynamics between employers' use of temporary agency workers and the aspirations of agencies to expand their role further within organisations.Design/methodology/approachThe study ...... hiện toàn bộ
Representation and consultation on health and safety in chemicalsEmployee Relations - - 2006
DavidWalters, TheoNichols
PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine the effectiveness of worker representation and consultation on occupational health and safety in the UK in a context in which, following the 1977 Safety Representatives and Safety Committees (SRSC) Regulations 1977, recognised trade unions have the right to appoint health and s...... hiện toàn bộ
Changing Management Approaches to Employee Relations in IrelandEmployee Relations - - 1992
PatrickGunnigle
Numerous management commentators have suggested that the 1980s have
witnessed considerable change in employee relations at establishment
level in Irish organizations. However, much of this analysis has been
quite vague on the precise nature of such change. Employee relations
management in Ireland has traditionally been associated with a strong
collectivist, industrial relations emphasis. A...... hiện toàn bộ
How Real is Worker Involvement in Health and Safety?Employee Relations - Tập 3 Số 4 - Trang 4-7 - 1981
BrendaBarrett, PhilipJames
The Robens committee on Safety and Health at Work recognised the cardinal importance of worker co‐operation with management if workplaces were to be made safer places and believed that worker involvement would help overcome the apathy which it felt was the primary cause of accidents at the workplace. The Health and Safety at Work Act apparently accepted the views of the Committee and creat...... hiện toàn bộ
Integration and devolvement of human resource practices in NepalEmployee Relations - - 2007
Dhruba KumarGautam, Ann J.Davis
PurposeThe purpose of this study is to explore the nature of human resource management in publicly listed finance sector companies in Nepal. In particular, it explores the extent to which HR practice is integrated into organisational strategy and devolved to line management.... hiện toàn bộ
Reward Management: A Retrospective AssessmentEmployee Relations - - 1993
Ian G.Smith
Reviews the development of the concept of reward management within
the context of other apparently innovative approaches to pay and the
role of government policy from the 1960s to the 1990s. These are largely
seen to have been ineffective and reward management to be another new
wine in an old bottle.
Employee commitment: academic vs practitioner perspectivesEmployee Relations - Tập 22 Số 6 - Trang 555-575 - 2000
Jeryl L.Shepherd, Brian P.Mathews
Employee commitment has been extensively researched by academics. Theories about commitment towards the organisation have enjoyed much interest. The concept is a central part of HR models. Research to date, however, has not examined the extent to which such “academic” perspectives are compatible with the views of practitioners. Hence, this research establishes practitioner’s understanding ...... hiện toàn bộ
Industrial Restructuring and Union Density:Employee Relations - Tập 9 Số 1 - Trang 14-16 - 1987
P.B.Beaumont
Between 1977–1985, total employment in one United Kingdom corporation, which initially had 20,000 employees with an overall trade union density of 65 per cent, fell by 45 per cent, while the union density fell by 13 per cent. Shop‐floor grades, which were more highly unionised were disproportionately affected by the employment reductions. The changes are charted for the eleven companies in...... hiện toàn bộ
Human Resource Management in FranceEmployee Relations - Tập 14 Số 4 - Trang 53-70 - 1992
IngridBrunstein
In France, no other specialist business function is so predominantly marked by culture as HRM. In France, Cartesian patterns of analytical thinking, the passion for anti‐authoritarian individualism, and the reduction of disorder through legislation and bureaucracy influence the company′s sociocultural environments, in particular through the education system, the status of executives, and t...... hiện toàn bộ
Theoretical and Ethical Foundations of Human Resource ManagementEmployee Relations - - 1994
HansJürgen Drumm
Poses the question whether, on an academic
level, human resource management (HRM) is a
scientific discipline of management. To arrive
at an answer, brings together findings of a
survey concerning the foundations of HRM
then links them by four central hypotheses.
The first (rather speculative) hypothesis claims
that, in Germany at least, the discussion of
HRM problems over the last 30 years...... hiện toàn bộ