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In this paper, we shall be examining worker involvement in decision making, mostly at shop‐floor level, in a number of British business organisations. The study takes into account the perceptions of both managers' and shop stewards' influence respectively over decision making, and asks whether the level of direct influence of employees appears consistently lower than that of indirect participation via their representatives, either through informal (mainly shop steward) mechanisms or the official channels.

In the last four years, since Volume I of this Bibliography first appeared, there has been an explosion of literature in all the main functional areas of business. This wealth of material poses problems for the researcher in management studies — and, of course, for the librarian: uncovering what has been written in any one area is not an easy task. This volume aims to help the librarian and the researcher overcome some of the immediate problems of identification of material. It is an annotated bibliography of management, drawing on the wide variety of literature produced by MCB University Press. Over the last four years, MCB University Press has produced an extensive range of books and serial publications covering most of the established and many of the developing areas of management. This volume, in conjunction with Volume I, provides a guide to all the material published so far.

This essay aims to present three critical challenges in the Chinese human resource management (HRM) research related to research originality.

The author takes an observational and experiential approach to developing his argument.

Existing research on Chinese HRM research lacks of originality in three critical aspects: the topics selected, the methodologies employed and the interpretations carried out. Researchers need to consider more relevant and emerging topics adopting more qualitative and comparative methodologies by focusing on today and tomorrow's problems.

The Chinese HRM research community is to overcome the three challenges in order to develop indigenous Chinese HRM theory.

Provides a brief outline of the Philippines before looking at the values held by the culture and the management style commonly adopted. Outlines personnel management practices with references to short case studies. Concludes that one must first understand the culture in relation to feelings, honour and relationships and the successful company is one which has formed effective relationships with not only customers but employees, suppliers and dealers and also provides staff with development opportunities.

This article focuses on and provides an updated version of our analysis of labour‐market policies in Greater China over the last decade, specifically in Shanghai and the Hong Kong SAR. The role of the “one country, two systems” model is re‐evaluated vis‐à‐vis both their labour‐market policies. We present a statistical comparison of employment and unemployment in the two settings using the latest data at hand in 2002. Then, we suggest a labour‐market schema to take into account likenesses and dissimilarities. Taking into account the divergent histories, the distinct role of the state as well as the evolving economic structures, we may hypothesize that although there will be different labour markets emerging in the two city contexts, a degree of relative convergence may now be envisaged.

Economics and economic history, general history and sociology have all usefully informed debates about the decline of the British economy relative to those of other nations, and useful contributions have also been made by political scientists, psychologists, students of industrial relations and of management and organisational behaviour. However, the most fundamental contributions have generally come from the three major disciplines of economics (with economic history), general history and sociology. Unfortunately habits and traditions peculiar to these disciplines have sometimes been unhelpful to processes of approaching comprehensive understanding. Further, interdisciplinary discussions and controversies have sometimes produced a certain amount of ‘noise’, even on some occasions where agreement on substantive points has been considerable.

Blumberg observes that, “The main thrust of the autocratic organisation is to drive the mature adult back into childhood. The mature adult strives to take an active part in his world, but the chain of command at work renders him passive. He seeks to be independent and to control his own behaviour, but as an employee, he is rendered dependent and essentially lacking in control over his own behaviour. … At every turn, the psychological needs of the mature individual are at odds with the demands of the autocratic organisation. The consequences are dysfunctional, both for the individual and for the organisation. The employee's principal reaction is frustration which may be expressed in any number of ways, most of which are detrimental all round : aggression, ambivalence, regression, apathy, restriction of output and otherwise subverting the goals of the organisation.” It does not need restating that regardless the degree of automatisation attained through the ever surprising technological advances, the human factor remains the single biggest contributor to the functioning of any plant in industry. And numerous research findings confirm that the ‘participating worker’ is an involved worker. In Blumberg's words, “… his job becomes an extension of himself, and by his decisions, he is creating his work, modifying and regulating it. As he is more involved in his work, he becomes more committed to it, and, being more committed, he naturally derives more satisfaction from it” If this assertion is correct, it follows therefore that worker participation is an inalienable ingredient to the recipe of good industrial relations. Apart from being an instrument of peace at the workplace, worker participation embodies the principles of social justice, and also upholds the dignity of workers as homosapiens, casting itself not as just another ingredient to industrial peace, but the determining factor of that peace. Bell suggests two basic reasons why ‘worker participation’ is inalienable to sound industrial relations;

This paper aims to report on the IFSAM (International Federation of Scholarly Associations of Management) 2012 conference, held in Limerick, Ireland, on 26‐30 June 2012.

The paper summarizes the conference, including keynote presentations and conference sessions.

The author concludes that the conference was a very enriching and rewarding experience, and allowed participants and experts every opportunity to create an interpretive environment for learning.

This paper provides a detailed report and summary of the IFSAM (International Federation of Scholarly Associations of Management) 2012 conference.

Purpose: The purpose of the present study is to synthesize and organize existing literature on contagious diseases and tourism. This systematic mapping of the literature helps to identify various mature and emerging themes around the research domain in the literature.

Design/Methodology/Approach: The study uses systematic methodology along with bibliometric and content analysis. Using a combination of electronic database searching and forward and backward references searching, the study identifies 160 suitable published studies.

Findings: Initial bibliometric analysis reveals that Tourism Geographies and Tourism Management are most influential journals and Law and Lee are most influential authors working on this field. The Hong Kong Polytechnic University and Universiti Sains Malaysia are among the top contributing educational and research organizations. Further, the content analysis reveals that literature on contagious diseases and tourism industry revolves around three prominent themes namely SARS and other contagious diseases, crisis management and tourism forecasting.

Research Limitations/Implications: The study does not consider ‘grey literature’ and conference proceedings.

Originality and Value: Present study is one of the early attempts that analyzes the literature on contagious diseases and tourism using bibliometric analysis and contributes to the literature by identifying various mature and emerging on contagious diseases and tourism literature. These insights provide a robust map for future investigation in this field and also offer implications for practitioners.