Title: Developing positive employment relations : international experiences of labour management partnership /
Authors: Johnstone, Stewart,; Wilkinson, Adrian, 1963-
Year: 2016
Subjects: Management Employee participation; Industrial relations; Industrial relations Case studies
Abstract: "Offering a critical assessment of the main conceptual debates concerning labour management partnership and cooperation at the workplace, this book evaluates the search for positive employment relations in five countries. The provision of collective employee representation, normally through trade unions, is central to most definitions of labour management partnership, and the aim is to develop collaborative relationships between unions, employers and employee representatives for the benefit all parties. While traditionally associated with employment relations in the coordinated market economies of the continental European nations, partnership approaches have attracted increasing attention in recent decades in the liberal market economies of the UK, Ireland, USA, Australia and New Zealand. Developing Positive Employment Relations assesses the conceptual debates, reviews the employment relations context in each of these countries, and provides workplace case studies of the dynamics of partnership at the enterprise level."--Publisher's website.
Contents: Part I. Conceptual Debates -- Developing Positive Employment Relations: International Experiences of Labour–Management Partnership / Stewart Johnstone and Adiran Wilkinson -- Trojan Horse or Tactic? The Case for Partnership / Donaghey, Jimmy -- Why Partnership Cannot Work and Why Militant Alternatives Can: Historical and Contemporary Evidence / Andrew Danford and Mike Richardson -- Part II. National contexts -- Participation and Partnership in the UK: Progress and Prospects / Stewart Johnstone -- Workplace Partnership in Ireland: Irreconcilable Tensions Between an ‘Irish Third Way’ of Voluntary Mutuality and Neoliberalism / Tony Dobbins and Tony Dundon -- Labour–Management Partnership in the USA: Islands of Success in a Hostile Context / Adrienne E. Eaton, Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld and Saul A. Rubinstein -- Evaluating Social Partnership in the Australian Context / Ying Xu, Glenn nPatmore and Paul J. Gollan -- Battling in a Bleak Environment: The New Zealand Context for Partnership / Helen Delaney and Nigel Haworth -- Part III. Partnership Cases -- A Partial Partnership?The Contradictions of Cooperation at PowerCo / Jonathan Hoskin, Steward Johnstone andPter Ackers -- Workplace Cooperation at Aughinish Alumina / Tony Dobbins and Tony Dundon -- The Kaiser Permanente Labour–Management Partnership: 1997–2013 / Thomas A. Kochan -- In Search of Workplace Partnership at Suncorp / Dhara Shah, Ying Xu, Paul J. Gollan and Adrian Wilkinson -- Partnership in Practice in New Zealand: Improving Productivity in Fonterra’s Whareroa Site / Helen Delaney and Nigel Haworth.