... methods Management activities After some decades of dormancy, calls for reinvigorating research on quality of working life (QWL) have been raised among labour and organisational sociologists and industrial relations scholars in recent years (see, e.g. Grote and Guest, 2017 ; Warhurst and Knox...

... only Workplace Employee involvement Empowerment Employee participation Management activities Laws and legislation The literature from developed countries has shown the importance of management commitment in establishing effective OSHCs, although this factor has been conceptualised...

... bargaining Trade unions Management activities The concept of CB associates with labour-capital autonomy, or a political economic environment that tolerates the autonomy of capital and labour. The pre-condition of the economic and political functions of CB is that the two parties can undertake self...

... for clarifying expectations, communicating objectives, motivating people and maintaining high level performance. Michael Dempsey can be contacted at: mbd6@tutor.open.ac.uk © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Trade unions General management Management activities Operations management...