Employee Relations: Volume 5 Issue 2

Beyond the Eighties — The Management of Organisational Change

Robin E.J. Chater

In the final years of the twentieth century there is likely to be an increasing rate of change for all types of organisations. How will they respond to this?

Part‐time Working:: Employment Conditions, Legislation and the Trade Union Response

Mike Rosser, Tony Mallier

Over the last few years, the number of part‐time employees has increased considerably, and this presents a challenge for unions in particular because of the inferior circumstances…

Experiences with Quality Circles in the South‐West United States

Michele Y. Burpeau‐Di Gregorio, John W. Dickson

Quality circles have become one of the most commonly used remedies to reverse the decline in productivity in business organisations. In this article, the authors draw upon the…

Industrial Conflict and the Nature of Labour Contracts

Peter Enderwick

It is the author's view that industrial conflict arises in the specification and interpretation of the labour contract, whether this be at shop floor or national level.