...Kirsty Newsome Anne‐Marie   Greene . Voices from the Shop‐Floor: Dramas of the Employment Relationship . Aldershot : Ashgate   2001 . vii + 149 pp. , ISBN: 0‐7546‐1096‐9   £39.95 © MCB UP Limited 2002 --> Industrial relations Manufacturing Ethnography I...

...Ian Winfield This case study narrates the experience of a medium‐sized UK manufacturing company in setting up and running a manufacturing plant in Shanghai, People’s Republic of China. It details how features of the social organisation of production, the human resource policies and the management...

... even more relevant in the service sector. The net effect of this combination of economic and technological pressures is said to be a situation in which employers: © MCB UP Limited 1998 Europe Financial services Flexible working Manufacturing Rail transport Trade unions...

...Phyllisis M. Ngin; Chee Leong Chong Examines TQM implementation in Star Union, a small manufacturing firm, and offers insights into how its “dynamic equilibrium” system drives the development of its employees and provides the link between corporate quality culture and performance. TQM ideology...

.... Based on a survey of Irish manufacturing companies, evaluates the explanatory framework which has emerged from this literature and concludes that its validity is questionable in an Irish context. Employee Relations 15,6 54 Human Resource Strategy and the Non-union Phenomenon Patrick Flood and Thomas...