Employee Relations: Volume 24 Issue 3

Assessing partnership: the prospects for, and challenges of, modernisation

Miguel Martinez Lucio, Mark Stuart

This paper has a dual role. First, it provides an overview of partnership, with particular reference to the present Labour Government and the shaping of its relations with the…

The two faces of partnership?: An assessment of partnership and co‐operative employer/trade union relationships

Sarah Oxenbridge, William Brown

The paper examines the context and characteristics of partnership arrangements currently emerging between employers and unions at the workplace level in Britain. Case studies of…

“Working together – involving staff”: Partnership working in the NHS

Anne Munro

Contributes to debates about employee involvement and social partnership by exploring the ways in which individualist and collectivist aspects interrelate in a single initiative…

Partnership and process in the maritime construction industry

Jo McBride, John Stirling

The authors provide a case study of a partnership agreement in the Tyneside maritime construction industry. They focus on the role of trade unions and the complex tensions that…

Assessing the principles of partnership: Workplace trade union representatives’ attitudes and experiences

Miguel Martinez Lucio, Mark Stuart

The article examines the attitudes and experiences of senior workplace trade union representatives, from the Manufacturing, Science and Finance Union, against the TUC’s six…

The contingencies of partnership: Experiences from the training reform agenda in Australian manufacturing

Richard Cooney

This paper examines the development of an antecedent model of social partnership, the social “accord” employed by the Labor Government in Australia during the period 1983‐1996…

Partnership, ownership and control: The impact of corporate governance on employment relations

Simon Deakin, Richard Hobbs, Suzanne Konzelmann, Frank Wilkinson

Prevailing patterns of dispersed share ownership and rules of corporate governance for UK listed companies appear to constrain the ability of managers to make credible, long‐term…

Understanding European Trade Unionism

John Stirling

Human Resource Management in Context: A Case Study Approach

Gillian Kellock Hay