... is around 30 percent, the collective bargaining coverage rate, i.e. the percentage of employees covered by a collective contract regardless of union membership is in the 80 to 90 percent range (Noe et al., 2007). © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 Trade unions Strikes Pay China...

... standards through processes of restructuring and examining attempts by governments, trade unions and agencies to re‐create effective systems of regulation. Gives case examples from areas such as India, Wales, London, Ireland, South Africa, Europe and Japan. Covers subjects such as the Disability...

..., Mototbooks International, Osceola, Wisconsin, 1993. 127 Motor industry Turnarounds Involvement Corporate culture Trade unions ...

...Michael J. Riley The research takes as its starting point the possibility of prejudice between workers which would, even in the absence of competition, prevent them associating as their interests would dictate. © MCB UP Limited 1988 Occupations Trade unions Workers Management...

...D. Miller Why are the trade unions disinterested in stress? Research into this, and the stress‐related factors of trade union activity. © MCB UP Limited 1988 Stress Trade unions Management Research News Volume 11 Number 1/2 1988 Stress and Trade Union Activism D. Miller The growing...

...Paul Lewis By 1980 unemployment was an important social, economic and political issue. Also by 1980, trade unions were experiencing membership losses for the first time in half a century. © MCB UP Limited 1988 Trade Unions Unemployment Management Research News Volume 11 No. 1/2 15...

...David Sapsford The research project discussed sets out to clarify the behavioural mechanisms involved in the strike process by the construction of a model which does some justice to the fundamental two‐party nature of union‐employer bargaining. © MCB UP Limited 1988 Strikes Trade unions...

... as well as a set of guidelines with regard to future policy making within the union. © MCB UP Limited 1988 Manufacturing industry Trade unions Technology Management Research News Volume 11 No. 1/2 New Technology and Trade Unions in Manufacturing Industry Paul Rathkey and Calvin Allen...

...Michael P. Kelly; Graeme Martin A series of projects is reported which focus on various aspects of white‐collar trade unionism, and which had to confront the theoretical limitations of some of the conventional ways of studying white‐collar trade unions. © MCB UP Limited 1988 Trade unions...

...Roger V. Seifert Teachers as employees have exhibited two important characteristics: a high level of union membership and regular collective bargaining with their employers. © MCB UP Limited 1988 Collective bargaining Teachers Trade Unions 42 Management Research News Volume 11...

...R.I. Hawkesworth Research into the role of labour in the transition to democracy, the emergence of free trade unions, the development of a new industrial relations framework and the participation of trade unions in the “consultation” process between government, employers and labour on a wide...

...Sarah Fielder; Michael Rose The research being undertaken in Swindon, discussed here, is part of a much larger project on “Social Change and Economic Life” in six localities in England and Scotland, by different research teams. Industrial relations Trade Unions © MCB UP Limited 1988...

...Jack Eaton Spain has the highest unemployment rate in Western Europe, 21 per cent. The research focuses on whether trade unionism has a future in Spain (the figure is currently between 15 and 25 per cent of the employed labour force). © MCB UP Limited 1988 Spain Trade unions...

...Richard Blackwell Two studies of compulsory ballots in trades unions are discussed. Ballots Trade unions 24 Management Research News Volume 11 No. 1/2 Compulsory Ballots in Trades Unions Richard Blackwell Legislation since 1979 has increasingly required Unions to adopt secret ballots...

... to question. The latter should be considered in any study specifically concerned with the supposed current decline of the personnel function. Labour market Legislation Personnel management Trade unions United Kingdom © MCB UP Limited 1986 Personnel Management in Britain: Were the 1970s...