Employee Relations: Volume 19 Issue 5

The future of trade unionism: injustice, identity and attribution

John Kelly

States that the future of trade unionism depends partly on structural factors such as the level of unemployment and also on workers coming to believe that unionism is essential to…

Quality circles under the new deal at Land‐Rover

Ashly Pinnington, Geraldine Hammersley

Posits that quality circles (QCs) are a form of employee involvement (EI) which failed due to inconsistent support from management and because they were unable to cope with the…

Performance‐related pay and trade union membership

Edmund Heery

Discusses how an earlier article in this journal (Vol. 19 No. 3) examined the extent to which the spread of individual performance‐related pay (IPRP) and was associated with trade…

Employee orientation ‐ the Japanese approach

Michel Mestre, Alan Stainer, Lorice Stainer

States that people management is one of the most crucial variables of corporate success. Provides an analysis of the orientation process, comparing Japan with the West…

Toyota’s supply chain: changing employee relations

Ian Winfield, Amanda Hay

Examines the extent to which a major purchaser can affect company behaviour within those firms supplying to it. Eleven major UK suppliers to Toyota Motor Manufacturing UK were…

The future for Hong Kong trade unions: What can they learn from the British trade unions’ experience of adversity 1979 to 1997?

Patricia Fosh

Discusses how since 1970, the colonial government in Hong Kong has exercised its wide legal powers over trade union organization and activities in a benevolent manner. Whether the…