Employee Relations: Volume 1 Issue 1

Industrial Relations Training

Sam Wright

Let me introduce the Industrial Relations Training Resource Centre and explain what it is doing and plans to do. On the way I shall introduce some issues which affect employment…

What Future for Employment?

Peter Thornton, Verner Wheelock

Contemporary society is increasingly confronted with the socio‐economic problems generated by what has been described as the end of industrial society and its transition to a…

Creating and Sharing Wealth ∼: the added value approach Part 1

Brian Wilson

This article explores the concept of Added Value, its definition and importance, in planning for national and company productivity.

Employee Participation in Sweden

Olof Lind

Sweden is a large country with a rather small population. It has about 8 million inhabitants. The country is a constitutional monarchy with a Parliament consisting of 349 members…

Women in Work∼: an equal opportunities audit

Barrie O. Pettman

During the last few dacades, most nations have seen a significant growth in the number and proportion of women, especially married women, in the labour force. However, the…

Industrial Democracy: the Lessons of the Lucas Campaign

David Elliott

The orderly extension of collective bargaining to cover health and safety, job design, product development and investment programmes is a goal shared by most unions. Some unions…

The Lessons of the Lucas Campaign: the Role of the State

Mike George

The significant development of tripartite arrangements between business, the State and the trade unions is a well‐documented feature of modern industrial relations and economic…