Employee Relations: Volume 28 Issue 4

Employee learning in New Zealand small manufacturing firms

Alan Coetzer

The paper aims to explain specific actions managers could take to improve support for the learning of staff and increase staff satisfaction with workplace learning.

Employee financial participation: evidence from a major UK retailer

David Morris, Ismail Bakan, Geoff Wood

The bulk of research on approved profit sharing and SAYE schemes tends to focus on the effects of their presence/absence, which says little about how effectively such initiatives…

Training and management development in Chinese multinational enterprises

Jie Shen, Roger Darby

This paper aims to explore international training and development policies and practices in Chinese multinational enterprises (MNEs). The issues examined in this study include…

The relationship between legislation and industrial practice: A study of the outcome of trade union recognition

Sian Moore

The paper sets out to ask whether the existence of a statutory model of collective bargaining has influenced the scope and depth of bargaining following voluntary trade union…

Improving working lives: flexible working and the role of employee control

Laura Hall, Carol Atkinson

The purpose of this paper is to investigate employee perceptions of the flexibility they utilize or have available to them in an NHS Trust and relate these perceptions to the…

Procedures as a way of handling capability problems in the teaching profession and implications for more general application

Derek Torrington

The paper aims to describe research, commissioned by the UK Department of Education and Skills, on the effectiveness of procedures to improve performance by unsatisfactory…

Pensions: the new source of industrial conflict

John Gennard