Employee Relations: Volume 25 Issue 6

Guest introduction: Industrial relations and human resource management in an era of accommodation: selected papers from the British Academy of Management Annual Conference 2002

Christine Edwards

Presents five of the best papers from the human resource management and industrial relations track of the 2002 British Academy of Management Annual Conference, reflecting the…

Individualism in organisations: Does employment contract innovation make a difference?

David E. Morgan, Rachid Zeffane

A shift from collectivism to individualism in managing employees is identified in employment studies. Developments in Australia have reflected this change, accompanied by claimed…

The impact of psychological contract violation on employee attitudes and behaviour

Judy Pate, Graeme Martin, Jim McGoldrick

Psychological contract violation has gained the attention of both practitioners and academics in recent years. Critical commentaries have questioned whether breaching such a…

Internationalisation of banking in Europe: Implications for European Works Councils

Miriam Quintana Fernández

There is considerable academic interest in the consequences of European integration for human resource (HR) management within multinational companies. In the context of this…

The uncertain road to partnership: An action research perspective on “new industrial relations” in the UK offshore oil industry

Graeme Martin, Judy Pate, Phil Beaumont, Alan Murdoch

This paper examines the problems involved in developing collective bargaining in the traditionally non‐union environment of the strategically important UK offshore oil industry…

Transferring human resource management across national boundaries: The case of Chinese multinational companies in the UK

Miao Zhang

The diffusion of “best management practice” across national boundaries is becoming a significant strategy for multinational companies (MNCs) to achieve competitive advantage in…

Systems of Production: Markets, Organisations and Performance

Paul Thompson