...Elisabeth Nöhammer Purpose Workplace health promotion (WHP) is an investment in human capital that can lead to substantial organizational and individual benefit. However, this depends on high participation rates, which are rarely reached. The aim of this article thus is to examine necessary...

...Rhokeun Park Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the mediating role of perceived organizational support (POS) in the relationship between employee participation and organizational commitment, and the moderating role of organizational strategy in those relationships. Design...

...Harmut Wächter; Theo Stengelhofen From a comparative viewpoint, German personnel management can be seen as a configuration shaped by a specific form of“corporatism”, worker participation, and the educational system (particularly the apprenticeship tradition). Although challenges from new technology...

... several years on, as part of a wider, Department of Employment funded research project on “New Developments in Employee Involvement”carried out at Manchester School of Management, UMIST. The Brown′s case illustrates how employee participation develops in successive“waves” – a major theme of the larger...

... of production. Concludes with an evaluation of the opportunities which exist for the empowerment of trade union members at the workplace level under these circumstances. © MCB UP Limited 1992 Participation Flexibility Post‐fordism Patterns of work Trade unions Note: This paper...

... in respect of the economic, sociological,political and epidemiological models of strikes: elements of all four models are identified. © MCB UP Limited 1992 Industrial conflict Participation Slovenia Strikes Employee Relations 14,1 48 Strike Action in a Self-managed Enterprise: The Ravne Iron...

... Human resource management France Innovation Skills Training Participation 22 EMPLOYEE REALTIONS 13,6 E xamines France's policies on vocational training at all levels and the role of companies and trade unions in the system. Training and HR Strategy in Frame: Discourse and Reality Alan Jenkins...

... UP Limited 1991 Middle management Participation Quality circles Trade unions Note: This paper was subsequently published in Management Decision, Volume 30 Number 6, 1992. 22 EMPLOYEE RELATIONS 13,5 Q uality circles can bear considerable fruit, but without middle management co...

... is a thing of the past – by improving quality through the direct impact that their action was having on the organisation′s position in the market and, consequently, on the increase of production volumes. © MCB UP Limited 1990 Participation Quality circles Employees Working conditions WORKERS...

... of organisational life. Much more credence needs to be given to the environmental and more broader managerial context within which employee relations takes place. © MCB UP Limited 1990 United Kingdom Trade unions Industrial relations Participation Employee relations Management Strategy 2 UNIONS...

... are presented and a number of concerns about the way in which it is practised are highlighted. It is suggested that team briefing may not be appropriate for all organisations, and that much depends on factors peculiar to the company or service in question. © MCB UP Limited 1989 Participation Team...

... attitudes to share ownership may be changing as well. © MCB UP Limited 1989 Motivation Participation Trade unions Employee share ownership plans Pay structures Employee attitudes Management attitudes THE IMPACT OF EMPLOYEE SHARE OWNERSHIP by J. Hyman, H. Ramsay, University of Strathclyde...

... in a Japanese‐owned electronics factory, with elaborate machinery for participation as well as a single union,no‐strike deal, it is concluded that consultation is little more than a symbol of unitarism. Moreover, other unitarist symbols are also used to convey the “family” message to the workforce. Joint...

...Angela Bowey; Richard Thorpe This article is the second in the series detailing recent and continuing research into Payment Systems. The previous article dealt with some of the main features found to be important in scheme success,whilst this one, “Participation in Payment System Design”,shows how...

...Richard Thorpe; Angela Bowey Drawing on research conducted over a number of years in a range of different organisations, how payment systems can be designed and implemented to increase the likelihood of success is explained. In addition, it is suggested that a participative approach to change can...

... from an ideological standpoint. Co‐operatives can be divided into three types: small business; participative; ideological. It is also important to evaluate their development against the reasons for their evolution. Indeed, the new co‐operatives are ideologically diverse, organisationally different...