Employee Relations: Volume 21 Issue 4

A review of strike activity in Western Europe at the end of the second millennium

Gregor Gall

Most analyses of strike activity in Western Europe suggest that it has declined quite dramatically since the early 1970s. The contention of this article is that this decline has…

Business transfers, employers’ strategies and the impact of recent case law

Richard W. Painter, Stephen Hardy

Under the European Union’s 1977 Acquired Rights Directive, workers transferred to another employer can expect the majority of their original terms and conditions of employment to…

National culture and high commitment management

Boyd Black

This paper examines the relationship between national culture and high commitment management (HCM). A model linking national culture and HCM is developed and hypotheses concerning…

An employee‐management consensus approach to continuous improvement in safety management

Colin W. Fuller

This paper reports an employee‐management consensus approach for identifying safety initiatives that are both appropriate to the working environment and also perceived to be…

Working in a corner shop: are employee relations changing in response to competitive pressures?

Sonia Liff, Simon Turner

The rise of large out‐of‐town stores has received attention in terms of concern about the viability of town centres and local businesses and the environmental consequences of the…

Manufacturing in China: a UK firm case study

Ian Winfield

This case study narrates the experience of a medium‐sized UK manufacturing company in setting up and running a manufacturing plant in Shanghai, People’s Republic of China. It…