Conflict and Employment Relations in the Individual Rights Era
Managing and Resolving Workplace Conflict
ISBN: 978-1-78635-060-2, eISBN: 978-1-78635-059-6
Publication date: 19 July 2016
Abstract
Purpose
The decline of collective representation and rise of individual employment rights is a transformative shift in employment relations that has changed the landscape of workplace dispute resolution. I propose a model that seeks to provide a new approach to understanding how workplace dispute resolution functions in the era of individual employment rights.
Methodology/approach
The model I propose focuses the analysis on the elements that connect the structure of rights that are enacted to the patterns of employment practices in the workplace.
Findings
My argument is that the systems for enforcement of individual employment rights and the mechanisms of representation for the employees affected are as important as the substantive rights themselves in determining the impact of the individual rights regime. These three elements combine to determine the degree to which the individual employment rights serve as an effective source of power for employees in relation to their employers.
Research implications
The establishment of these sources of power is what then results in the individual rights regime producing an effect on the employers’ patterns of practices in the workplace and ultimately determining the nature and character of the employment relationship.
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Citation
Colvin, A.J.S. (2016), "Conflict and Employment Relations in the Individual Rights Era", Managing and Resolving Workplace Conflict (Advances in Industrial & Labor Relations, Vol. 22), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 1-30. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0742-618620160000022002
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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