Employee Relations: Volume 26 Issue 3

Employee self‐rostering for work‐family balance: Leading examples in Austria

Louise Thornthwaite, Peter Sheldon

Examines two leading cases of Austrian organisations providing employee self‐rostering for work‐family balance, a little‐reported area of employment relations innovation. These…

Flexible friends? Lone parents and retail employment

Dennis Nickson, Chris Warhurst, Cliff Lockyer, Eli Dutton

This paper considers a so far unappreciated sector of the labour market – lone parents. The number of lone parents has increased dramatically in recent years. Consideration of…

Trade union recruitment: strategic options?

Martin McCracken, Michael Sanderson

This paper adapts the model espoused by Snape and considers avenues for trade unions to increase membership. It studies two specific industrial sectors, namely 20 non‐unionised…

Prohibiting sexual harassment in the European Union: An unfinished public policy agenda

Glenn M. Gomes, James M. Owens, James F. Morgan

European Union policymakers have taken a courageous step toward outlawing sexual harassment as a form of gender‐based discrimination throughout the EU with the recent passage of…

Women in management: an historical perspective

Isobel McDonald

In pre‐industrial times women managed, not only the household, but aspects of agricultural work such as the dairy, milking, butter and cheese‐making, often disposing of any…

Corporate ethics and trust in intra‐corporate relationships: An in‐depth and longitudinal case description

Göran Svensson, Greg Wood

Theoretically, a contribution of this article is the pinpointed connection between corporate ethics and trust in intra‐corporate relationships. Furthermore, it contributes to a…

Representing Workers: Union Recognition and Membership in Britain

Ian Cunningham