What is included with this book?
List of Figures | p. vii |
List of Tables | p. viii |
Notes on the Authors | p. x |
Acknowledgements | p. xi |
Partnership at Work | p. 1 |
What is partnership? | p. 1 |
A new productive base? | p. 5 |
The TUC and partnership | p. 7 |
Partnership as a 'Third Way' project | p. 10 |
Critics from within and without | p. 14 |
The studies | p. 18 |
The High-Performance Workplace: Fact or Fiction? | p. 20 |
High-performance work practices and worker attributes | p. 23 |
Work intensity and job recomposition | p. 27 |
Task discretion | p. 30 |
Job satisfaction | p. 34 |
Employee commitment | p. 37 |
Staff consultation | p. 41 |
Workplace stress | p. 44 |
Union performance | p. 47 |
Conclusion | p. 51 |
Gambling with Employee Voice in the Finance Sector | p. 53 |
The finance sector | p. 53 |
Employee relations strategies | p. 62 |
Employees' attitudes to voice and representation | p. 69 |
Conclusion: Gambling with the paradox of intention | p. 81 |
Best Value in a Local Authority | p. 84 |
The role of local trade unions | p. 87 |
Security of employment, the intensification of work and job satisfaction | p. 92 |
Employee involvement | p. 100 |
Conclusion | p. 103 |
Partnership on Prescription in the NHS | p. 107 |
Public policy context | p. 107 |
Research problems | p. 110 |
The partnership agreement | p. 112 |
Partnership in practice? The employees' voice | p. 116 |
Direct employee participation | p. 117 |
Indirect employee participation | p. 123 |
Union representation | p. 125 |
Conclusion | p. 129 |
Goodbye Blue Sky: Partnership in the UK Aerospace Sector | p. 132 |
Airframes and JetCo | p. 136 |
Restructuring and financial control: The case of Airframes | p. 137 |
Restructuring and financial control: The case of JetCo | p. 142 |
Informal workplace partnership: The case of Airframes | p. 147 |
Formal workplace partnership: The case of JetCo | p. 153 |
Conclusion | p. 162 |
Whither Partnership? | p. 165 |
Consensus, consultation and ideology | p. 167 |
Partnership and reality transcendence | p. 170 |
Notes | p. 176 |
References | p. 178 |
Index | p. 191 |
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