Alex Bryson, John Forth, Neil Millward

All Change at Work?

British Employment Relations 1980-98, Portrayed by the Workplace Industrial Relations Survey Series

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book is the latest publication reporting the results of a series of workplace surveys conducted by the Department of Trade and Industry, the Economic and Social Research Council, the Advisory Conciliation and Arbitration Service and the Policy Studies Institute. It addresses such contemporary employee relations issues as: * Have new configurations of labour-management practices become embedded in the British economy? * Did the dramatic decline in trade union representation in the 1980s continue throughout the 1990s, leaving more employees without a voice? * Are the vestiges of union organisation at the workplace a hollow shell? The focus of this book is on change, captured by gathering together the enormous bank of data from all four of the large-scale and highly respected surveys, and plotting trends from 1980 to the present. In addition, a special panel of workplaces, surveyed in both 1990 and 1998, reveals the complex processes of change. Comprehensive in scope, the results are statistically reliable and reveal the nature and extent of change in all bar the smallest British workplaces. A key text for anyone interested in employment and the changing world of work, whether as student, researcher, teacher, analyst, adviser or practitioner.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. April 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 634g
• ISBN-13: 9780415206341
• ISBN-10: 0415206340
• Artikelnr.: 21156039

Autorenporträt

Alex Bryson, John Forth, Neil Millward

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
The essential features of the WIRS design
Elements of the survey employed in this volume
The changing landscape
1980-98
The nature of our analysis and contents of the book 2. The dynamic context of workplace employment relations. Industry and Ownership
Size of Workforce
Location within larger organizations
Internationalization
Age and relocation
Changes in technology
Changes in the composition of the workforce
Summary and conclusions 3. The Management of employee relations. Who manages employee relations
The emergence of a profession
The gender issue: women managing employee relations
A changing role for employee relations managers
The status and influence of employee relations managers
Conclusions 4. Have employess lost their voice? Union presence
Union membership density
Trade Union recognition
Other channels for collective employee voice
Direct Communication methods
An overall view of employee voice
Conclusions 5. Union recognition: a 'hollow shell'? Workplace union density
The nature of union