1st Edition

Change in Industrial Relations The Organization and Environment

By P.B. Beaumont Copyright 1990
368 Pages
by Routledge

368 Pages
by Routledge

368 Pages
by Routledge

Change in Industrial Relations (1990) examines the industrial relations system in the UK at the end of the 1980s, after a decade of changes such as the growth of non-union firms, trade union decline, the emergence of human resource management practices, and increase in labour–management co-operation. The author describes the major features of the system and discusses the recent changes, drawing... Read more

1. Industrial Relations as a Field of Study  2. The Larger Environment of Collective Bargaining  3. Trade Unions as Organizational Entities and Bargaining Agents  4. Management Strategy, Structures, and Policies for Industrial Relations  5. The Essence of Collective Bargaining and Bargaining Structure  6. Collective Bargaining Processes, Conflict and Power  7. Collective Bargaining and the Interaction with the Environment  8. The Changing Role of the State in the Industrial-Relations System  9. Beyond Collective Bargaining  10. Back to the Future?

Biography

P.B. Beaumont