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Bargaining Power and Industrial Relations
Paul S. Kirkbride, Jim DurcanThis article will attempt to argue and demonstrate that the existing and extensive literature on bargaining power in industrial relations focuses almost exclusively on two central…
Testing for Local Management Autonomy: A Question of Perception?
P.K. Edwards, Paul MarginsonSurveys based on standard questionnaires have long been a major research tool of the social scientist. The great majority have focused on one type of respondent — the workers of a…
A Test of the Vroom‐Yetton Decision Model in Seven Field Settings
Larry B. Pate, Donald C. HeimanIt should be re‐emphasized, however, that the [Vroom‐Yetton] model is explicitly normative in character in that it specifies what leaders should do in various organizational…
Human Resource Flexibility — Some Necessary Conditions for Success
J. van Ham, Philips, J. Paauwe, R. WilliamsMuch publicity has recently been given to the attempts of a number of organisations to improve the flexibility of their human resources. By this is normally meant keeping their…
Employee Retirement Decisions: Perceptions of American Personnel Administrators — A Note
Nicholas J. Beutell, O.C. BrennerRetirement is a complex and important transition in an employee's life. The merits of retirement policies have been discussed from both the individual and the organisational…
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0048-3486Online date, start – end:
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Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen Access:
hybridEditors:
- Professor Eddy Ng
- Professor Pauline Stanton