Employee Representation in Non-Union Firms

Employee Representation in Non-Union Firms
Author: Paul Gollan
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2006-12-28
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1849202362

`Provides a wide-ranging and though-provoking analysis of non-union forms of employee-representation. While it will unquestionably be of interest to scholars and students specializing in the burgeoning field of non-union employee relations, there is much useful material that could inform union reponses to membership decline′ - British Journal of Industrial Relations `Paul Gollan′s book is an important contribution to our understanding of the significance of non-union employee representation in Britain and its implications for the future of employment relations. It is highly recommended′ - Russell Lansbury, Professor of Work & Organisational Studies, University of Sydney ′Can employees have effective voice without independent collective organisation? In the UK, unlike most of continental Europe, government and employers typically answer yes. Gollan′s detailed study provides sound reasons for scepticism′ - Richard Hyman, Department of Industrial Relations, LSE ′We know very little about the non-union sector in Britain despite the fact that it now embraces the clear majority of the workforce. The publication of Paul Gollan′s Employee Representation in Non-Union Firms therefore represents a very important addition to the field. Based on extensive and detailed in-depth study of some leading non-union employers, it throws new light on the ways in which employee interests are represented in such firms′ - Prof John Kelly, Birkbeck College ′Are non-union systems of representation (NER) an acceptable alternative to union-based systems or do they infact complement more traditional forms of union representation?′ - Bruce Kaufman, Georgia State University Robinson College of Business This book is the first of its kind to answer this challenging question. It offers a comprehensive overview of NER in the UK and locates UK practice within an international context. Readers are invited to consider the potential implications and limitations of NER arrangements, and to examine how unions respond to these NER arrangements through bargaining, consultation and representation processes. Throughout issues are addressed on both a macro and micro level. The book reviews the literature and examines current practice using survey data and original case analysis. Engaging readers who are studying industrial relations, human resource management, employee involvement and consultation, unions and management strategy, it will also be appeal to practioners working in these areas. Case Study Material available! Go to the Sample Materials and Chapters link on the left navigation bar to access this excellent additional resource.

Human Resource Strategy

Human Resource Strategy
Author: Michal Biron
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 516
Release: 2024-09-12
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1040094015

What is Human Resource Strategy? How are human resource strategies formulated and how can we explain the variance between what is espoused and what is actually implemented? What impact – if any – does human resource strategy have on the organization’s “bottom line,” and how can this impact be explained? Is there one best HR strategy for all firms, or is the impact of HR strategy on performance contingent on some set of organizational, technological or environmental factors? Human Resource Strategy, third edition, provides an overview of the academic and practitioner responses to these and other questions. Applying an integrative framework, the authors review over thirty years’ worth of empirical and theoretical research in an attempt to reconcile often-conflicting conceptual models and equivocal empirical findings. The book supports students in applying theory to practice and presents much of the relevant research in the context of the critical strategic decisions that executives are often forced to make with regard to human resource investments and deployments. As a result, often-complex theoretical models and scientific findings are presented such that they are not only understandable but also highly relevant to non-research-oriented practitioners. This new edition includes new chapters on innovations in HR strategies and diversity and introduces more practical examples. This book is an ideal resource for students and practitioners alike.

Smiling Down the Line

Smiling Down the Line
Author: Bob Russell
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 345
Release: 2009-09-12
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1442697237

Just as textile mills and automotive assembly plants have symbolized previous economic eras, the call centre stands as a potent reminder of the importance of information in contemporary economies. Bob Russell's Smiling Down the Line theorizes call centre work as info-service employment and looks at the effects of ever-changing technologies on service work, its associated skills, and the ways in which it is managed. Russell also considers globalization and contemporary managerial practices as centres are outsourced to poorer countries such as India and as new forms of management are introduced, refined, and discarded. Invoking extensive labour force surveys and interviews from Australia and India, Russell examines employee representation, work intensity, stress, emotional labour, and job skills in the call centre work environment. The cross-national approach of Smiling Down the Line highlights the effects of globalization and scrutinizes the similarities and differences that exist in info-service work between different industries and in different countries.

Issues in Global Business and Management Research: Proceedings of the 2008 International Online Conference on Business and Management (IOCBM 2008)

Issues in Global Business and Management Research: Proceedings of the 2008 International Online Conference on Business and Management (IOCBM 2008)
Author: Mehran Nejati
Publisher: Universal-Publishers
Total Pages: 568
Release: 2008-10-10
Genre:
ISBN: 1599429446

IOCBM 2008 is the second International Online Conference on Business and Management at a global scale, attracting business and management practitioners, students, professors, researchers, and activists from around the world to submit their research findings to the conference. It is an annual conference in the field of business and management which is held by ALA Excellence Consulting Group annually. More information about this conference can be found at http://www.ala.ir/iocbm2008.

The Most Dangerous Business Book You'll Ever Read

The Most Dangerous Business Book You'll Ever Read
Author: Gregory Hartley
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2011-02-02
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0470888024

Hone your professional approach to a razor's edge using lessons from military and civilian intelligence The Most Dangerous Business Book You'll Ever Read brings expertise from military and civilian intelligence operations into your business life. It lays out hard-hitting interpersonal skills to raise your level of professional effectiveness and vanquish your competition. The Most Dangerous Business Book You'll Ever Read features former Army interrogator Gregory Hartley's unique system of profiling, formula for persuasion, and framework for establishing expertise quickly. Gregory makes his system concrete with case studies, tables, diagrams, and more. Question like a Polygrapher Sort Personalities like a Profiler Close a Deal like a Hostage Negotiator Interview like an Interrogator Network like a Spy Research like an Intelligence Analyst Decide like a SEAL Team-Build like Special Ops Take your career focus to the next level. Discover the skills they don't teach in business school with The Most Dangerous Business Book You'll Ever Read.

Well-Being in the Workplace: Governance and Sustainability Insights to Promote Workplace Health

Well-Being in the Workplace: Governance and Sustainability Insights to Promote Workplace Health
Author: Nicole Cvenkel
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 471
Release: 2020-05-02
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9811536198

This book is intended for human resources management academics, researchers, students, organizational leaders and managers, HR Practitioners, and those responsible for helping support employees in the 21st-century workplace. It offers a path forward to create an environment that will not only build a healthier workplace by providing appropriate and effective well-being interventions but also offers solutions to manage multi-generational and ‘holistic’ employees within the employment relationship. The book describes the factors that promote healthy and WELL organizations and introduces concepts and strategies to reduce workplace stress and mental health issues and improve workplace well-being toward sustained organizational success. Employers that embrace the corporate responsibility of promoting the health and well-being of multi-generational, holistic employees will reap cost savings, employee engagement, and productivity advantages, as well as a healthier and more productive workforce.

Global HRM

Global HRM
Author: Dr. Mukul A. Burghate I Kartik Uttarwar I Dr. Kavita D. Patil
Publisher: The Management Consortium(TMC)
Total Pages: 188
Release:
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN:

With the advent of globalization, organizations - big or small have ceased to be local, they have become global! This has increased the workforce diversity and cultural sensitivities have emerged like never before. All this led to the development of Global Human Resource Management. Even those organizations who consider themselves immune to transactions across geographical boundaries are connected to the wider network globally. They are in one way or the other dependent upon organizations that may even not have heard about. There is interdependence between organizations in various areas and functions. The preliminary function of global Human Resource Management is that the organization carries a local appeal in the host country despite maintaining an international feel. The purpose of this study Material is to present an introduction to the subjects of Global HRM. The book contains the syllabus from basics of the subjects going into the intricacies of the subjects. All the concepts have been explained with relevant examples and diagrams to make it interesting for the readers. An attempt is made here by the experts of TMC to assist the students by way of providing Study Material as per the curriculum with non-commercial considerations. However, it is implicit that these are exam-oriented Study Material and students are advised to attend regular class room classes in the Institute and utilize reference books available in the library for In-depth knowledge. We owe to many websites and their free contents; we would like to specially acknowledge contents of website www.wikipedia.com and various authors whose writings formed the basis for this book. We acknowledge our thanks to them. At the end we would like to say that there is always a room for improvement in whatever we do. We would appreciate any suggestions regarding this study material from the readers so that the contents can be made more interesting and meaningful. Readers can email their queries and doubts to our authors on [email protected]. We shall be glad to help you immediately. Dr. Mukul Burghate

Handbook of Technical and Vocational Education and Training Research

Handbook of Technical and Vocational Education and Training Research
Author: Felix Rauner
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 1103
Release: 2008-12-16
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1402083475

Technical and vocational education and training (TVET) research has become a recognized and well-defined area of interdisciplinary research. This is the first handbook of its kind that specifically concentrates on research and research methods in TVET. The book’s sections focus on particular aspects of the field, starting with a presentation of the genesis of TVET research. They further feature research in relation to policy, planning and practice. Various areas of TVET research are covered, including on the vocational disciplines and on TVET systems. Case studies illustrate different approaches to TVET research, and the final section of the book presents research methods, including interview and observation methods, as well as of experimentation and development. This handbook provides a comprehensive coverage of TVET research in an international context, and, with special focus on research and research methods, it is a cutting-edge resource and reference.

International Bibliography Of Sociology 2003/Bibliographie Internationale Des Sciences Sociales

International Bibliography Of Sociology 2003/Bibliographie Internationale Des Sciences Sociales
Author: Compiled by the British Library of Political and Economic Science
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 764
Release: 2004-12
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 9780415354790

First published in 1952, the International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (anthropology, economics, political science, and sociology) is well established as a major bibliographic reference for students, researchers and librarians in the social sciences worldwide. Key features * authority: Rigorous standards are applied to make the IBSS the most authoritative selective bibliography ever produced. Articles and books are selected on merit by some of the world's most expert librarians and academics. * breadth: today the IBSS covers over 2000 journals - more than any other comparable resource. The latest monograph publications are also included. * international Coverage: the IBSS reviews scholarship published in over 30 languages, including publications from Eastern Europe and the developing world. *User friendly organization: all non-English titles are word sections. Extensive author, subject and place name indexes are provided in both English and French.

Study Guide for Medical-Surgical Nursing - E-Book

Study Guide for Medical-Surgical Nursing - E-Book
Author: Donna D. Ignatavicius
Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences
Total Pages: 569
Release: 2023-10-13
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0323879039

Get an in-depth review of the medical-surgical nursing Concepts and Exemplars covered in Ignatavicius's Medical-Surgical Nursing: Concepts for Clinical Judgment and Collaborative Care, 11th Edition and develop your clinical judgment skills! Corresponding to the chapters in the Ignatavicius textbook, this thoroughly updated study guide is a practical tool to help you review, practice, and apply medical-surgical nursing concepts. Traditional review questions now include exercises and item types for the Next-Generation NCLEX® Exam (NGN) to reinforce your understanding of the textbook's nursing concepts and their application to exemplar disorders. Answers and rationales make it easy to improve upon any areas of weakness. With this study guide, you will prepare for success in class, on the NGN, and in medical-surgical nursing practice. - Complete review of textbook information builds your clinical judgment skills and enhances your ability to make safe and effective clinical decisions. - UNIQUE! Emphasis on the textbook's Concepts and Exemplar disorders highlights key medical-surgical nursing concepts and how they are reflected in common health conditions. - Hundreds of review questions allow you to practice prioritizing, develop clinical judgment, simulate interprofessional collaboration, and apply the steps of the nursing process and clinical judgment cognitive skills. - Multiple-choice and multiple-select questions for the NCLEX® Exam are included in addition to the questions for the NGN, to better prepare you for all item types included in the NGN. - Answer Keys now follow each chapter and include in-depth rationales to reinforce your understanding and boost your test-taking skills. - NEW! Updated content aligns with revisions and updates in the Ignatavicius Medical-Surgical Nursing, 11th Edition textbook, reflecting the most current national and international guidelines and protocols. - NEW! Exercises and questions for the Next-Generation NCLEX® Exam (NGN) are now included, all aligned with the NCSBN Clinical Judgment Measurement Model's six cognitive skills that are needed to make appropriate clinical judgments, deliver safe care, and increase readiness for the NGN. - NEW! Added variety of study and review questions includes formats such as fill-in-the-blank, matching, and more to promote understanding and application of key information. - NEW! New full-color design and illustrations clarify concepts and promote in-depth learning.