...Dr Keith Townsend and Professor Tony Dundon; Richard Saundry; Carol Jones; Gemma Wibberley Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the orientations of line managers in handling workplace conflict. In particular it examines the tension between the traditional preference of frontline...

... Industrial relations Mediation Workplace conflict Alternative dispute resolution Force field analysis Mediation has become increasingly popular in the Irish industrial relations sphere, as an alternative process for dispute resolution, albeit mainly in the realm of individual/small group disputes...

... to these being announced, a three‐day occupation led to the employer conceding to the 90‐day notice period and improved redundancy terms. Dockers at Belfast had pledged not to load any finished components from the factory onto awaiting ships. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 Workplace...

... be contacted at: g.gall@herts.ac.uk © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 Union Workplace conflict Restructuring Western Europe Employee attitudes Economic models Taking its starting point as the historical memory of earlier periods when worker and working class resistance was both...

...; and the current and changing nature of the economy. Miguel Martínez Lucio can be contacted at: mmartinezlucio@yahoo.co.uk © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 Workplace conflict Industrial action Spain Industrial relations Disputes Organizational restructuring The issue of worker...

... redundancy in Belgium. Valeria Pulignano can be contacted at: pulignano.valeria@soc.kuleuven.be © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 Workplace conflict Industrial action Belgium Trade unions Organizational restructuring Health services Manufacturing industries Industrial...

... Limited 2011 Workplace conflict Industrial action France Redundancy Industrial relations Industrial law However, this analysis is not shared by all. Béroud et al. (2008 , pp. 12‐21) draw attention to the fact that labour conflict data often focuses not only on strike action...