...Ian Roper This article explores the implementation of quality management initiatives in four local authorities and considers how far such a scenario offers a possibility for social partnership between management and trade unions. Although no collective bargaining processes are defined in the social...

...Tony Dundon; Dave Eva Seeks to locate the role of trade unions in bargaining for vocational education and training (VET) within the context of workplace industrial relations. Drawing on the experiences and findings of a TUC project aimed at improving union awareness of training initiatives, argues...

... agenda on the central workplace and societal issues. Looks at the obstacles and potential for doing this in the sphere of work organization, utilizing comparative research in the UK and Sweden. © MCB UP Limited 1994 Bargaining Cellular Manufacturing SAAB Sweden Teamwork Trade Unions...

... elements of this and assesses the implications for the future of trade unions and collective bargaining. © MCB UP Limited 1993 Bargaining Collective bargaining Employee relations Individual behaviour Industrial relations Trade Unions Individualization of the Individualization and Trade...

... parties. The means by which trust is established through negotiation, as part of the process of reaching agreement, are explored. © MCB UP Limited 1993 Bargaining Industrial relations Interpersonal communications Negotiating Trust Work Developing Trust in Negotiation R.E. Fells...

... is shown to have a positive effect on a bargaining unit′s duration of normal working during a current contract negotiation. For all three industries the impact of strike duration was greatest immediately following a strike; the longer the duration of the strike, the longer the ensuing normal working time...

... sector; Ontario law also applies to the private sector. All provinces require pay equity bargaining in ununionised workplaces. Indications are that effective pay equity bargaining is separate and co‐operative, but equity maintenance may be undermined. However, the initial impact of the proactive schemes...

... on average 1–2 per cent below the rate management will accept. In connection with this shop stewards are not seen as good negotiators. The theoretical assumptions which underpin the prescriptive literature on negotiations are examined. © MCB UP Limited 1986 Bargaining Personnel management...