Employee Relations: Volume 26 Issue 5

The impact of restructuring in further education colleges

David Beale

This paper is focused on sectoral restructuring and changes in industrial relations in further education (FE colleges) during the 1990s, brought about by the 1992 Further and…

Why do employees, particularly women, reject occupational pension schemes?

Orla Gough

An integral part of government policy is to encourage employees to make financial provision for retirement. This paper asks why eligible employees, particularly women, do not join…

Exploring the mutual interaction of societal culture and human resource management practices: Evidence from 19 countries

Nancy Papalexandris, Leda Panayotopoulou

This paper attempts to interpret the HRM practices studied through the CRANET research in the light of the general societal culture tendencies as revealed by the GLOBE study. The…

Coming to the table with Acas: from conflict to co‐operation

Gill Dix, Sarah Oxenbridge

Whilst notions of conflict have historically underpinned the rhetoric and policy focus of employment relations, more recently the locus of debate has shifted towards the…

UNI Europa Graphical's approach to the co‐ordination of national level collective bargaining within a European context

John Gennard

This paper outlines the purpose and the economic theory underpinning the Uni‐Europa Graphical co‐ordination of collective bargaining within a European context policy. It then…

Policy and practice in general print: the workplace reality of national bargaining

Geraldine Healy, Al Rainnie, Jim Telford

This paper investigates the operation of the National Agreement in the general printing industry at a time when the future of such agreements is in doubt. Drawing on both…

Employment Relations in the Hospitality and Tourism Industries

Dennis Nickson

Call Centres and Human Resource Management: A Cross‐National Perspective

Peter Bain, Phil Taylor