...Leon Gooberman; Marco Hauptmeier; Edmund Heery Purpose A key meta-narrative of Employment Relations in the UK over recent decades has been that of labour market deregulation. However, governments have simultaneously introduced workplace rights legislation that juridified individual employment...

... management training and education. Fox’s specific contribution is identified. Subsequent UK writers have underplayed the importance of the legal dimension of managerial authority, especially relevant in the US context, while other extra-economic factors bolster the managerial unitary frame in authoritarian...

...Mike Rigby; Miguel Angel García Calavia Purpose The paper examines the approach of United Kingdom (UK) Trade Unions to the use of institutional power resources (IPR) in the second half of the twentieth century. Design/methodology/approach Using secondary material, it examines the unions...

... survey and administrative records of sick leave in the previous 12 months) and qualitative data (through interviews and focus groups) from one branch of an internationally well-established and UK-based religious charity between 2017 and 2018. Findings The quantitative results support a strong...

...Professor Ralph Darlington; Dave Lyddon Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the changing strike activity in the UK over the last 50 years. Design/methodology/approach – The paper draws on a wide literature on UK strikes and an extensive trawl of newspaper...

...John Gennard Examines the changes in the UK legal framework, surrounding the employment relations system, to be introduced by the new Labour Government elected in May 1997. Discusses how these changes are designed to improve competitiveness, establish fairness at work, provide minimum employment...

... lies with management, this method being perhaps the best to secure workforce co‐operation to raise Britain from being a low income, low productivity nation. © MCB UP Limited 1985 Productivity Trade unions UK Trade Unions, Management and Productivity by Terry Sullivan Manchester Business...