...Jon Las Heras; Mario Rísquez; Ignacio Messina Purpose The purpose of this article is to critically examine the collective bargaining strategies employed by unions during the closure of Nissan Zona Franca and to challenge the assumption that institutional and mobilising power resources are mutually...

... for ways to assist small businesses achieve success. Calls exist in the literature to investigate the combined role that strategy and human resource management practices can play leading to efforts of financial success. Design/methodology/approach A structured questionnaire was utilised and data...

... in order to ascertain whether the higher your status in the organisation, the better your relationship is with HR. Line management Partnerships Human resource management Responsibility Strategy For many years, there has been immense speculation about the advisability of devolving human resource...

... managers in HRM needs to be re‐assessed, as line involvement in HRM is a problematic initiative for organisations to adopt. © MCB UP Limited 2003 Line management Employee relations Strategy Human resource management The involvement of line managers 1 in human resource management (HRM...

...Rona S. Beattie K.   Kamoche . Understanding Human Resource Management . Buckingham : Open University Press   2001 . , ISBN: ISBN: 0‐335‐20373‐6 © MCB UP Limited 2002 --> HRM Knowledge management Strategy Ken Kamoche’s latest book is a welcome...

...James Kelly The 1990s literature portrays the corporate personnel/HR function as in decline due to the decentralisation and delayering of large organisations. As a result personnel’s presence on boards of directors and participation in the formation of corporate business and HR strategies cannot...

... is questionable. © MCB UP Limited 2001 Employee rights Consultations Communications Employee involvement Representation Human resource management Strategy Freeman and Medoff (1984) have argued, that while unions can provide an effective method of collective employee “voice”, there may...

...Neil Ritson Human Resource Management in the literature has been considered a second‐ or third‐order strategy largely related to implementation. Argues that the process of strategy formulation and evaluation has not been correctly conceptualised. The evidence that HR issues are fundamental...

... et al., 1994). Strategic integration implies that employee relations considerations are a major factor in strategic decision making, with a strong emphasis on developing employee relations policies which are integrated with, and mutually complementary to business strategy. Thus a “strategic...

... and is correlated with growth and unionization, there is a link between these forms of flexibility and a strategic approach to human resources management. Proposes that previous commentators, who have argued that there is no such link, have often used unrealistically restrictive models of strategy formulation...

... in terms of HRM and the level of know‐how (technique and management systems) achieved by personnel managers. © MCB UP Limited 1992 Human resource management Industrial relations Italy Modelling Organizational structure Procedures Strategy Human Resource Management in Italy HRM in Italy...

... 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...

...Mark A. Thomas A general introduction to the concept of a Human Resources Strategy with a practical framework for developing such an approach by focusing on four key elements – culture, organisation, people and systems. © MCB UP Limited 1990 Human asset accounting Strategy...

...M. Pirani An investigation into the skills used by 82 personnel and industrial relations managers, particularly in negotiations, shows that some of the theoretical and prescriptive ideas that exist on negotiating need to be revised. The notion of rational, calculated negotiating strategy...