Britain At Work: As Depicted by the 1998 Workplace Employee Relations Survey

by Cully; Mark

• ISBN13: 9780415206372
• ISBN10: 0415206375
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781134625062
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-11-12
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Britain at Workpresents a detailed analysis of the 1998 Workplace Employee Relations Survey, the largest survey of its kind ever conducted. Across Britain, managers and worker representatives in over 3,000 workplaces completed work-life questionnaires. This is the first of two volumes which reports these results.

Table of Contents

List of figures	ix
List of tables	xi
Foreword	xv
List of abbreviations	xviii
Introduction	1	(13)
The social, economic and political landscape in 1998	2	(2)
Design of the survey	4	(5)
Conduct of the survey	9	(1)
Plan and approach of the book	10	(4)
A profile of workplaces in Britain	14	(9)
Workplace and organisation size	14	(2)
Industry	16	(2)
Patterns of ownership and control	18	(3)
Workplace age	21	(1)
Conclusion	22	(1)
Workforce composition and employers' labour use	23	(25)
Workforce composition	23	(9)
The deployment of labour	32	(6)
Work organisation	38	(6)
Conclusion	44	(4)
The management of employees	48	(36)
Who manages employees: the location and operation of the personnel function	49	(8)
Employee relations in the wider business context	57	(3)
How are employees managed?	60	(20)
Conclusion	80	(4)
Employee representation	84	(29)
Union membership	85	(5)
Union recognition	90	(4)
Worker representatives	94	(4)
Joint consultative committees	98	(5)
Negotiation, consultation, and information-sharing in practice	103	(3)
Pay determination	106	(1)
Conclusion	107	(6)
Measures of workplace performance and well-being	113	(24)
Workplace monitoring	114	(6)
Workplace performance	120	(4)
Workplace well-being	124	(9)
Conclusion	133	(4)
Employees at work: attributes and aspects of working life	137	(29)
A profile of the survey population	138	(2)
Job autonomy and influence	140	(3)
Flexible working arrangements	143	(5)
Training	148	(3)
Consultation with employees	151	(2)
Working hours and overtime	153	(6)
Pay	159	(4)
Conclusion	163	(3)
Employee attitudes to work	166	(26)
Job security	167	(3)
Perceptions of work intensity and work-related stress	170	(3)
Views about workplace managers	173	(8)
Job satisfaction and employee commitment	181	(8)
Conclusion	189	(3)
The role and activities of worker representative	192	(24)
Where are the reprsentatives?	193	(2)
Who are the representatives?	195	(3)
What do the representatives do?	198	(5)
Trade union organisation	203	(2)
Union representatives' relationship with management	205	(2)
Joint regulation of the employment relationship	207	(3)
Employee views of representation	210	(2)
Conclusion	212	(4)
Changes in employment relations, 1980-1998	216	(35)
Analysing change using the survey series	216
The context of chage in employment relations	28	(196)
The managment of employees	224	(5)
Communication with the workforce	229	(3)
Financial participation	232	(2)
Trade union membership and recognition	234	(8)
Employee representation at the workplace	242	(3)
Workplace conflict	245	(1)
Conclusion	246	(5)
Small business employment relations	251	(24)
Small business in context	252	(2)
Employment structures in small businesses	254	(3)
The management of employees	257	(7)
Employee representation	264	(5)
Measures of workplace performance and well-being	269	(3)
Conclusion	272	(3)
The climate of employment relations: a three-way analysis	275	(18)
Three perspectives on climate	276	(8)
Management practices, workplace performance and climate	284	(2)
Determinants of climate	286	(5)
Conclusion	291	(2)
Conclusions: overview and assessment	293	(10)
Management strategy and structure	294	(2)
Employee representation and participation	296	(2)
Towards a new policy goal in employment relations: improving job satisfaction	298	(1)
Employment relations in 1999 and beyond... to the next WERS	299	(4)
Technical appendix	303	(16)
The sampling frame and the sample	304	(4)
Piloting and developmental work	308	(1)
Fieldwork	309	(1)
Fieldwork outcomes	310	(3)
Coding and editing the data	313	(1)
Weighting the cross-section sample	314	(2)
Weighting the panel sample	316	(1)
Sampling errors	316	(2)
Accessing the data	318	(1)
Bibliography	319	(12)
Index	331