Books in the Routledge Research in Employment Relations series

This book aims to share understanding of best practice in the industries associated with construction and related activities, recognising that effective work organisation and good standards of employee relations will vary from one location to another.

This book argues that employers' organizations are resilient organizations that adapt to changing circumstances by developing new practices. It also explores these variations and their impacts on employer organizations.

Based on in-depth research from 12 European countries, this book addresses a key gap in both the CSR and ER literatures, namely trade union policies towards CSR, their engagement with particular CSR initiatives, and the challenges they face in doing so.

The gender pay gap exists in every European country, but it varies even in EU states covered by the same legal principles on pay equality. Based on the EC funded research project "Close the Deal, Fill the Gap", this book uses an comparative interdisciplinary analysis to review the impact of social partnerships on GPG in Italy, Poland and the UK

Evaluates the debate on partnership. This book redefines the debate providing a new categorisation with which to synthesize and clarify a highly diverse literature on labour-management partnership.

Focuses on the merger process in Britain and Germany and reviews the wider implications of these developments. This book is a useful resource for postgraduate students studying business and management, industrial employee relations and trade unions.

The precise relationship between an employee and employer is often ambiguous within complex organizational boundaries. This book re-evaluates the way employment relations are conceptualized and examines employment conditions in non-union organizations.

The creation of European Works Councils is arguably the most important measure taken in global industrial relations. Drawing on survey data, this book shows that the quality of information and consultation is generally poor, thus bringing into question the soft touch legislative approach to employee participation of the European Commission.

An examination of the origins, characteristics and performance of employee-owned firms, this text focuses on firms that have converted to either partial or full employee ownership.

The history of the field of industrial relations and the history of social democracy are intimately connected, through the events of the Cold War and the activities of key individuals such as Allan Flanders, one of the central figures in the creation of the field of industrial relations in Britain.

This book is essential reading for students and researchers with a specific interest in the hotel and catering industry, but will also be of interest to researchers with a wider interest in HRM issues.

Providing insights into working life, this book offers an approach to innovation in the work place. It argues that many innovations associated with the corporation seem to reproduce many of the conditions that we associate with the industrial age. It demonstrates the debilitating consequences of these interventions.

Presents a review of the global scholarly literature on diversity. This book presents findings from original UK-based research involving organizational case studies, interviews, observation and documentary data from over fifty organizations.

Combining contemporary human resource management (HRM) theory and practice with debates in critical management and in industrial relations, this book examines the peculiar challenge that civil aviation pilots present for management. It also examines the impact of HRM on airline pilots as well as union-management relationship, and others.

Charts the progress, achievements, and obstacles faced by the partnership between the Irish Airports Authority and its trade unions in the mid 1990s, based on access to the partners, documents, observations on how the partnership functioned and three surveys of the company's workforce.

This book aims to share understanding of best practice in the industries associated with construction and related activities, recognising that effective work organisation and good standards of employee relations will vary from one location to another.

This book explores how posting is changing industrial relations systems in several European countries from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. It looks at how opportunities to set up shell-companies and engage in unregulated transnational recruitment made a Europe-wide industry out of avoiding regulation and cheating workers.

This collection examines the significance of partnership-based approaches to the modernization of employment relations and draws from the work of leading researchers.