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9780273655862

Employee Relations

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  • ISBN13:

    9780273655862

  • ISBN10:

    0273655868

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

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