Table of contents
Workplace Industrial Relations and Deregulation: Challenging the New Orthodoxy
Russell D. Lansbury, Duncan MacdonaldAustralia offers an example of a formerly centralized system ofindustrial relations which is in the process of significant changetowards a more decentralized and deregulated…
Information Technology and the Quality Gap
Carole BrookeDuring 1990, one of the largest service sector companies in the UKwas in the process of implementing major change. Top management believedthat total quality management (TQM) was…
Theoretical and Ethical Foundations of Human Resource Management: A German Point of View
Hans Jürgen DrummPoses the question whether, on an academiclevel, human resource management (HRM) is ascientific discipline of management. To arriveat an answer, brings together findings of…
European Works Councils and Their Implications: The Potential Impact on Employer Practices and Trade Unions
Roger WelchExamines the development of the current position in Britain, alongwith initiatives at EC and now EU level, to institutionalize collectivestructures for employee involvement along…
The Rise of Single Table Bargaining in Britain
Gregor GallOver 80 companies and organizations have recently changed theircollective bargaining arrangements to introduce “single tablebargaining” (STB). This sharp rise follows on from only…
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- Prof Dennis Nickson