Employee Relations: Volume 31 Issue 2

Trade union merger strategies: good or bad?

John Gennard

The purpose of this editorial is to review the significance of Roger Undy's book, Trade Union Merger Strategies: Purpose, Process and Performance, Oxford University Press, 2008.

Labour mobility and migration within the EU following the 2004 Central and East European enlargement

John R. Dobson

The paper seeks to investigate the effects of the 2004 Central and East European EU Enlargement on labour mobility.

The changing locus of workplace control in the English further education sector

Kim Mather, Les Worrall, Roger Seifert

The purpose of the paper is to discuss how the so‐called “modernisation” agenda has triggered changes in the structure and management of the UK public sector. The concern of the…

Employee evaluations of occupational pensions

Orla Gough, Rod Hick

The paper aims to examine the role of an occupational pension in employees' psychological contracts, the degree to which such pensions influence decisions relating to employee…

Employment relations in liberal market economy airlines

Geraint Harvey

This paper aims to evaluate the institutional complementarity thesis, which anticipates that the institutional context of the firm will have a considerable influence on the choice…

From administrative expert to strategic partner

Jeanette Lemmergaard

Replicating Ulrich's model, this study aims to investigate empirically the HR role performance of a case organisation. Despite the popularity of the model, both theoretical…

Can you hear us?: The effectiveness of European Works Councils as a mechanism of employee voice for Hungarian workers of PrintCo

Marie Bailey

This paper aims to analyse the effectiveness of European Works Councils (EWCs) as a mechanism of employee voice from the perspective of Hungarian workers in UK‐owned multinational…