... activities outside work. Some nurses had been granted fixed shifts to give them the predictability they needed to plan childcare, others were struggling to cope: © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 Nursing Call centres Hours of work Team working Scotland National Health Service...

... National Health Service (NHS) UNISON branches of 92, 49 and 17 per cent density and 45 interviews with non‐members, members, branch activists (key‐stewards and stewards), full‐time officers and managers. Findings UNISON aimed to devolve financial resources to branches whilst encouraging participation...

... not be just what you do in terms of high performance strategies but how you do it that is all‐important. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 Employee involvement Performance management National Health Service Line managers Job satisfaction United Kingdom “High commitment...

.... Originality/value Points to how we might achieve a deeper understanding of the diverse ways that the organizational professionals experience the introduction of managerialism and the incorporation of managing the specialist roles. Doctors National Health Service Hospital management Responsibilities...

...Susan Corby; Geoff White; Louise Millward; Elizabeth Meerabeau; Jan Druker This paper explores the consequences of the introduction by National Health Service (NHS) trusts (i.e. hospitals) of their own pay systems. It is based on case studies of ten NHS trusts and involved 73 interview sessions...

...Anne Munro Contributes to debates about employee involvement and social partnership by exploring the ways in which individualist and collectivist aspects interrelate in a single initiative in the National Health Service. Identifies a particular form of employee involvement in which partnership...

...Norma Heaton; Bob Mason; Joe Morgan Contributes to the social partnership debate by exploring ways in which inter and intra‐union relations influence the development of partnership within a National Health Service Trust, by using observation techniques, focus groups and semi‐structured interviews...

... the Trust’s income, leading senior managers to place a high priority on maximising revenue from fundholders, which in turn has generated considerable management costs. © MCB UP Limited 1998 Britain National Health Service Industrial relations Pay Work organization A distinctive feature...

...Clare Kelliher Seeks to evaluate the policy of competitive tendering for ancillary services in the National Health Service, by reference to a number of case studies of catering services. Argues that the success of the policy was dependent on certain assumptions being met about the extent...

... (McLachlan, 1994). It could be argued that Opportunity 2000 is the preserve of the women′s unit but this leads to equal opportunities being marginalized and seen as separate from mainstream personnel matters. © MCB UP Limited 1995 Equal opportunities Ethics National Health Service United...

...Susan Corby Looks at industrial relations developments in the “first wave” of self‐governing trusts in the National Health Service. It finds that many are departing from the NHS′s traditional industrial relations model. There is a move from national to local bargaining and the predominant pattern...

...T. Sullivan; I. Christensen; D. Wan The industrial unrest during January 1988 among nurses in the UK National Health Service raised the matter of the attitude and behaviour of that group of employees towards industrial action. In some circles that action is regarded as“unprofessional”. While...

...Phillip B. Beaumont; Jerome Elliott The results are details of a survey into membership and recruitment of student nurses in training schools and hospitals into the main nursing unions– the RCN, COHSE and NUPE. © MCB UP Limited 1990 National Health Service Nurses Trade unions United...

... Employment National health service Payment systems Privatisation Public sector Trade unions THE EMPLOYMENT IMPLICATIONS OF GOVERNMENT POLICY: A CASESTUDY OF PUBLIC SECTOR CATERING by Clare Kelliher and Steve McKenna School of Hotelkeeping and Catering, and School of Business Administration, Ealing...

...John W. Leopold; P.B. Beaumont The authors discuss the typology of personnel officers in the National Health Service. On the basis of a survey of Scottish Health Boards they conclude that NHS personnel officers are “insiders” rather than “outsiders” bringing their specialist skills from elsewhere...