...Danat Valizade; Hugh Cook; Christopher Forde; Robert MacKenzie Purpose This paper examines the extent of bargaining concessions in recession through investigating the effects of union bargaining on pay, job security and workforce composition. Design/methodology/approach Drawing on an original...

...Rebecca Jane Stirzaker The authors suggest that poor existence of pay bargaining is reflected in the response of employers to the recession. For the first time since the War, employers were able to reduce costs mainly by reducing real wages. In the private sector, wage freezes and cuts were most...

...Wendy Loretto; David Lain; Sarah Vickerstaff; Vanessa Beck Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the degree to which there have been changes during the recession in the behaviour of employers with regards to their employment of older workers. The paper aims to show that there has been...

... and LePine's (1998) original proposed measure. Francine Schlosser can be contacted at: fschloss@uwindsor.ca © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 Employees participation Employees relations Employees behaviour Trust Voice Silence Positive coping Management attitudes Recession...

... Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Recession Redundancy Unemployment Industrial relations Employee relations In April 2009, the management of the French car maker Renault and four trade union organisations (CFDT, CFTC, CFF‐CGC and FO) signed a “social crisis agreement” aimed...

...Sinikka Vanhala Describes the state‐of‐the‐art of human resource management in Finland in the mid‐1990s as the Finnish economy recovers from its deepest and longest post‐war recession. Typical to the Finnish system has been the mix of social, political and employers′ interests in the collective...

... features of British workplace industrial relations remain unchanged. The economic changes wrought by the recession since 1979 in Scotland and the UK and the resurgence of older traditions in industrial relations are described. © MCB UP Limited 1987 Collective bargaining Industrial relations...

...Bruce Spencer In spite of the recession and its attendant threats to workforce size and union power, a well‐organised union can still influence management and company plans. Though management still have a range of policy options, the point of trade union resistance is to force management...

... remain important, this is in the wider sense of managing labour and securing workers' compliance with managerial aims. (First part of a two‐part article.) © MCB UP Limited 1985 Industrial relations Recession The financial assistance of the Economic and Social Research Council...