Title: Partnership and the high performance workplace : work and employment relations in the aerospace industry /
Authors: Danford, Andy.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan,
Year: 2005
Subjects: Aerospace industries Management Employee participation Great Britain.; Aerospace industries Great Britain Management.; Industrial productivity Great Britain.; Industrial relations Great Britain; Aerospace industries Management Great Britain.
Abstract: "The promotion of social partnership and management techniques of the high performance workplace has become central to the political agenda of 'modernization' at work. Policies aimed at 'democratizing' the workplace by way of new forms of employee participation and cooperative industrial relations can, it is argued, offer firms a 'high road' to market competitiveness and business success. This book questions such assumptions. It provides an alternative perspective that penetrates the realities rather than the rhetoric of the modernization project.
Contents: Modernization and workplace relations -- The legacy of trade union power -- Organizational restructuring and the new insecurity -- High performance work systems and the production worker -- High performance work systems and the technical worker -- Workplace partnership : management and union strategy -- Partnership and worker participation : voices from the floor -- Training and development for high performance : supporting partnership or elites? -- Workplace partnership : a question of interests.