Partnership and the High Performance Workplace [electronic resource] : Work and Employment Relations in the Aerospace Industry /
Danford, Andy.author.
Richardson, Mike.author.
Stewart, Paul.author.
Tailby, Stephanie.author.
Upchurch, Martin.author.
The promotion of workplace partnership in the high performance workplace has become central to policy debates on the 'modernization' of employment relations in British industry. This book provides critical insights into the dynamics of partnership by way of in-depth case studies of employee experience in an under-researched industry noted for its high concentrations of skilled workers and graduates. Drawing on rich interview and questionnaire data, the authors highlight considerable conflicts of interest in the development of partnership that derive from the competitive capitalist environment in which management strategies operate.
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""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""List of Figures and Tables""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""List of Abbreviations""; ""Foreword""; ""Notes on the Authors""; ""1 Modernization and Workplace Relations""; ""The high performance workplace""; ""From Japanization to Lean to HPWS""; ""Partnership at work""; ""Research design""; ""2 The Legacy of Trade Union Power""; ""The 1957 engineering dispute""; ""Piecework to measured day work""; ""Other patterns of conflict in the 1970s""; ""The Thatcher years""; ""Industrial democracy""; ""3 Organizational Restructuring and the New Insecurity""
""Organizational restructuring in the aerospace sector""""High performance management and organizational change""; ""The new insecurity: worker attitudes to high performance management""; ""Conclusion""; ""4 High Performance Work Systems and the Production Worker""; ""High performance work organization on the shop-floor""; ""The quality of working life on the shop-floor""; ""Labour control and resistance""; ""Conclusion""; ""5 High Performance Work Systems and the Technical Worker""; ""High performance work organization and social relations in technical work""
""The quality of working life in the technical office""""Technical labour, collectivism and resistance""; ""Conclusion""; ""6 Workplace Partnership: Management and Union Strategy""; ""The business case for partnership""; ""Partnership and union strategy""; ""Partnership and union strategy: The case of Airframes""; ""Partnership and union strategy: The case of JetCo""; ""Conclusion""; ""7 Partnership and Worker Participation: Voices from the Floor""; ""Direct worker participation""; ""Indirect worker participation (1): The joint consultative committee""
""Indirect worker participation (2): Union representation and partnership""""Conclusion""; ""8 Training and Development for High Performance: Supporting Partnership or Elites?""; ""Skills training""; ""Employee appraisals and control""; ""Gender, contract and employee development""; ""Conclusion""; ""9 Workplace Partnership: A Question of Interests""; ""The reality of partnership: conditions for mutuality or discord?""; ""Conclusion""; ""References""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""
""T""""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""
Includes bibliographical references (p. 240-256) and index.
The promotion of workplace partnership in the high performance workplace has become central to policy debates on the 'modernization' of employment relations in British industry. This book provides critical insights into the dynamics of partnership by way of in-depth case studies of employee experience in an under-researched industry noted for its high concentrations of skilled workers and graduates. Drawing on rich interview and questionnaire data, the authors highlight considerable conflicts of interest in the development of partnership that derive from the competitive capitalist environment in which management strategies operate.
Personnel management.
Behavioral economics.
Human Resource Management.
Behavioral/Experimental Economics.