Employee Relations

by Hollinshead, Graham; Tailby, Stephanie; Nicholls, Peter

• ISBN13: 9780273655862
• ISBN10: 0273655868
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-11-01
• Publisher: Trans-Atlantic Pubns

Summary

The text is ideal for undergraduates and postgraduates, providing an up-to-date approach for those studying Employee Relations, HRM and related disciplines on a range of courses including BA Business Studies and CIPD professional programmes. This new edition has been revised to take account of the salient developments currently shaping the subject of employee relations from concrete issues such as changes in legislation, employment practices or facets of trade union structure and membership, to those of a more interpretative nature.

Table of Contents

Contributors	ix
Preface	xi
Plan of the book	xiii
Introduction	xv
Acknowledgements	xix
Part One Perspectives on the employment relationship
Context and theory in employee relations	3	(45)
Peter Nicholls
Introduction	3	(5)
Employee relations and theoretical interpretation	8	(1)
Unitary theory	9	(4)
Pluralist theory	13	(5)
Systems theory	18	(6)
Marxist theory	24	(5)
Feminist theory	29	(5)
Comparative theory	34	(4)
Postmodernism	38	(3)
Conclusion	41	(1)
Chapter summary	42	(1)
Questions	43	(1)
Activities	43	(1)
Useful websites	44	(1)
References	45	(2)
Further reading	47	(1)
Values and their impact on the changing employment relationship	48	(43)
Philip Cox
Ann Parkinson
Introduction	48	(2)
Scenario	50	(9)
Setting the context: the shift from industrial relations to employee relations	59	(2)
The trade union perspective	61	(2)
The organisational perspective	63	(9)
The individual perspective	72	(9)
Chapter summary	81	(2)
Questions	83	(1)
Activities	83	(2)
Useful websites	85	(1)
References	85	(2)
Further reading	87	(4)
Part Two The parties in employment
Management	91	(34)
Graham Hollinshead
Introduction	91	(3)
Management in the UK	94	(1)
The international context for British management	95	(3)
The status and calibre of British management	98	(1)
Challenges facing management: survival of the fittest?	99	(1)
The structuring and restructuring of industry	100	(3)
Approaches to the management of employee relations	103	(8)
Non-union employee relations	111	(4)
Human resource management and employee relations	115	(2)
The way forward: a partnership approach?	117	(3)
Chapter summary	120	(1)
Questions	120	(1)
Activities	121	(1)
Useful websites	121	(1)
References	121	(2)
Further reading	123	(2)
Employee representation: trade unions	125	(50)
Jackie Sinclair
Trade union functions and powers	125	(9)
Trade union development and structure	134	(5)
National and international trade union bodies	139	(4)
Trade union internal organisation and democracy	143	(9)
Trade union membership and density	152	(16)
Chapter summary	168	(2)
Questions	170	(1)
Activities	170	(2)
Useful websites	172	(1)
References	172	(3)
The state	175	(32)
Mike Salamon
Introduction	175	(3)
The UK since 1960: a case study in changing government philosophy	178	(3)
Government approaches to employee relations	181	(4)
The labour market	185	(6)
Social justice	191	(4)
Industrial conflict	195	(5)
Chapter summary	200	(1)
Questions	201	(1)
Activity	202	(1)
Useful websites	202	(1)
References	202	(5)
Part Three International influences and changing regulations
The European Union	207	(55)
Mike Leat
Introduction	207	(3)
Membership, institutions and the decision-making processes	210	(14)
Social policy initiatives and the social dimension	224	(9)
Policy initiatives: equality, working time and employee participation	233	(22)
Chapter summary	255	(1)
Questions	256	(1)
Activity	256	(3)
EU directives and other instruments	259	(1)
Table of cases	260	(1)
Useful websites	260	(1)
References	260	(1)
Further reading	261	(1)
Multinationals and employee relations	262	(40)
Mike Leat
Introduction	262	(1)
What is a multinational company?	263	(2)
Multinationals and the internationalisation of business	265	(2)
The scale of foreign direct investment	267	(1)
Reasons for investing abroad and locational determinants	268	(2)
Types of MNC and their approaches to multinational activity	270	(3)
MNCs and national cultures	273	(2)
The multinational company: a force for good?	275	(2)
MNCs and national employee relations systems	277	(5)
MNCs and trade unions	282	(4)
International trade union organisation	286	(3)
International regulation and control of MNCs	289	(3)
Employee relations policies and practices within MNCs	292	(4)
Chapter summary	296	(1)
Questions	297	(1)
Activity	297	(2)
Useful websites	299	(1)
References	300	(2)
Regulating the employment relationship	302	(41)
Brian Willey
Huw Morris
Introduction	302	(4)
Regulating the individual employee relationship	306	(7)
Discrimination, equal opportunities and employment	313	(5)
Collective representation	318	(4)
The processes of employment relations	322	(7)
Industrial conflict	329	(4)
Chapter summary	333	(2)
Questions	335	(1)
Activity	335	(1)
Table of statutes and statutory instruments	336	(1)
Table of European directives	337	(1)
List of cases	337	(1)
Useful websites	338	(1)
References	338	(1)
Further reading	339	(4)
Part Four Patterns and practices
Collective bargaining	343	(29)
Mike Salamon
Introduction	343	(4)
The process of collective bargaining	347	(5)
Changes in the structural framework	352	(7)
Changes in the bargaining relationship	359	(8)
Chapter summary	367	(1)
Questions	368	(1)
Activity	368	(1)
Useful websites	369	(1)
References	369	(3)
Employee participation and involvement	372	(32)
Mike Richardson
Introduction	372	(3)
Theoretical origins of EPI in Britain	375	(1)
What is EPI?	376	(5)
Theoretical approaches to industrial relations	381	(3)
Theories of EPI	384	(3)
EPI in practice	387	(8)
Chapter summary	395	(3)
Activities	398	(1)
Notes	399	(1)
Useful websites	399	(1)
References	400	(3)
Further reading	403	(1)
Pay	404	(42)
Jane Evans
Introduction	404	(1)
Contemporary contextual factors	405	(5)
Pay and the employment relationship	410	(3)
The implications for pay of changing employee relations frameworks	413	(4)
The process of pay determination	417	(11)
The constituent elements of pay and pay systems	428	(11)
Conclusions	439	(1)
Chapter summary	439	(1)
Questions	440	(1)
Activity	441	(1)
Useful websites	442	(1)
References	442	(3)
Further reading	445	(1)
Discrimination	446	(43)
Sally Howe
Introduction	446	(2)
What is discrimination?	448	(1)
The psychological/sociological basis of discrimination	449	(1)
Historical trends in attitudes to discrimination	450	(8)
Structural/economic factors affecting discrimination	458	(4)
Political/ethical issues affecting discrimination	462	(1)
National initiatives and educational programmes	463	(3)
More radical approaches: affirmative action (positive discrimination) programmes	466	(1)
Managing diversity	467	(3)
Management	470	(6)
Trade unions	476	(2)
Individuals	478	(1)
Conclusions	479	(2)
Chapter summary	481	(2)
Questions	483	(1)
Activities	484	(3)
Note	487	(1)
Useful websites	487	(1)
References	488	(1)
Flexibility	489	(42)
Stephanie Tailby
Introduction	489	(2)
The flexibility debates	491	(9)
Functional flexibility	500	(6)
Part-time work	506	(11)
Temporary work	517	(6)
Chapter summary	523	(3)
Questions	526	(1)
Activity	526	(1)
Useful websites	527	(1)
References	527	(4)
Public sector employment	531	(32)
Martin Upchurch
Introduction	531	(1)
From 'model employer' to 'winter of disconent'	532	(5)
Monetarism, Thatcherism and public spending cuts	537	(2)
'Marketisation' and new public management	539	(4)
Pay determination: comparability, indexation and performance	543	(4)
The public sector under 'new' Labour	547	(1)
Assessment: employee relations or industrial relations?	548	(7)
Chapter summary	555	(1)
Questions	555	(1)
Activities	556	(1)
Notes	556	(2)
Useful websites	558	(1)
References	558	(1)
Further reading	559	(4)
Part Five Conclusion
The rediscovery of conflict in the employment relationship	563	(9)
Andy Danford
Paul Stewart
Introduction	563	(7)
Alternative possibilities for enhanced quality of working life	570	(1)
References	571	(1)
Index	572