... 2017 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Skills Employee behaviour Labour Europe Further education Employment security is one of the most contemporary issues to study in the field of human resources management because of its relationship, inter alia...

...Kim Mather; Les Worrall; Graeme Mather Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore control and resistance in the UK further education (FE) sector by examining senior college managers’ attempts to engineer culture change and analysing lecturers’ resistance to such measures. Design...

... of lecturers in the English further education sector. Design/methodology/approach A Bravermanian approach is adopted to examine aspects of change in the FE lecturer labour process. Empirical evidence is derived from three FE colleges and draws on data from semi‐structured interviews, a survey of lecturers...

...David Beale This paper is focused on sectoral restructuring and changes in industrial relations in further education (FE colleges) during the 1990s, brought about by the 1992 Further and Higher Education Act. Its concern is particularly with the workplace implications of such restructuring...

...Frank Burchill Examines change in the further education (FE) sector since the incorporation in 1993 and its effects on aspects of human resource management (HRM) and, in particular, on employee relations. Argues that change was forced through in FE to a greater extent, and in a more compressed...