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ABSTRACTThis study tests the hypotheses that employment will increase and become more stable when firms replace traditional reward systems with a bifurcated approach incorporating profit‐sharing. Time‐series data for 443 publicly traded profit‐sharing firms and a closely matched group of industry non‐sharers were analysed before and after plan implementation. While there was evidence that profit‐sharing generated short‐term growth, little support emerged for its theorized effect on employment variability. Unlike previous reports, organizational size was more likely to influence the impact of share arrangements than was in

ISSN:0007-1080    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8543.1994.tb01006.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1994

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ABSTRACTThe focus of the paper is upon the extent to which different national regulatory systems give rise to different institutions and outcomes at the workplace. It uses data from the Australian Workplace Industrial Relations Survey and the third British Workplace Industrial Relations Survey to examine a number of hypotheses which suggest that the different regulatory systems of these countries have produced distinct patterns of industrial relations at the workplace. It is concluded that, while there is substantial evidence that the countries' different regulatory systems have had distinct effect on industrial relations institutions and outcomes, these are not as straight forward as earlier work has suggested.

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DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8543.1994.tb01007.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1994

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ABSTRACTThis article documents the rise of organized labour and the emergence of overt industrial conflict in the Republic of Korea since democratization in 1987, and the crisis of world competitiveness of Korean industry to which the gains of organized labour contributed. Based on an analysis of the characteristics of the actors in the Korean industrial relations system, the nature of the conflict and its consequences are assessed. It is argued that, in forcing the pace of economic restructuring towards high‐tech/high‐wage sectors, organized labour, often characterized by state and business elites as a ‘problem’, may turn out to be a progressiv

ISSN:0007-1080    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8543.1994.tb01008.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1994

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ABSTRACTOn the basis of a detailed study of two ‘independent’ unions, representing pilots and air traffic controllers, this paper argues that there are very limited prospects for independent trade unionism in Russia at present. The air traffic controllers' union has adopted a resolutely independent and militant strategy of pursuing the sectional interests of its members, which has brought it into conflict with management, other unions and the government. The pilots' union, by contrast, has sought to consolidate the position of its members as a labour aristocracy, collaborating closely with management to secure its privileged position. The success of the pilots contrasts starkly with the heavy defeat suffered by the air traffic controllers following their strikes in August and December 1992, indicating the barriers that face the attempt to create trade unions independent of management in Rus

ISSN:0007-1080    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8543.1994.tb01009.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1994

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ABSTRACTThis article considers nine cases dealt with by ACAS arbitration in the period from September1991 to July 1993 under the statutory compensation scheme for marine pilots whose engagements were terminated in consequence of the major changes made to the provision of pilotage services by the Pilotage Act 1987. It explains the background to those changes and the problems that arose in the nine cases (problems of interpretation of the scheme, particularly in sickness cases, and then of proving causation in individual cases), and comments on the use of the arbitration procedures in circumstances such as these.

ISSN:0007-1080    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8543.1994.tb01010.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1994

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ABSTRACTThe article looks at effectiveness in union organization. Following Child et al. (1973), it describes the necessary conditions for both administrative and representative effectiveness. Administratively effective unions focus on an organizable job territory, control costs and avoid competition. Representative effectiveness is defined by the degree of employer dependence, the balance of services and the degree of centralization. We argue that the prevailing tendency for concentration through merger often damages representative effectiveness while yielding few administrative benefits. The article concludes by offering a framework for analysis of a range of co‐operative relationships between unions which yield administrative benefit

ISSN:0007-1080    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8543.1994.tb01011.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1994

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ABSTRACTIn this paper we analyse data from the 1980—4 WIRS panel for the light they can shed on the causes of the decline in aggregate trade union density in the UK. We argue that, contrary to conventional wisdom, intra‐establishment union density did, on average, decline between 1980 and 1984. This suggests that a traditional compositional change story is untenable. We proceed to investigate the correlation of intra‐establishment change with variables suggested by the various hypotheses advanced to explain declining density over the period. We find some evidence for an influence of intra‐establishment compositional changes, but the most statistically significant variables are wages and unemployment. These take the wrong sign, however, to support the business cycle interpretation of falling aggregate union

ISSN:0007-1080    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8543.1994.tb01012.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1994

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ABSTRACTSince the initial studies of derecognition, many articles have focused on the issue, by and large pointing to a slow increase in derecognition. However, a small number have indicated it is actually much larger. This paper shows that derecognition is even greater than these suggest and that its nature has changed. The paper looks at the contexts of this rise but argues that derecognition should not yet be seen as a major problem facing the unions.

ISSN:0007-1080    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8543.1994.tb01013.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1994

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ABSTRACTA number of recent studies measure trade union membership concentration using the Herfindahl index. This study uses the same measure to examine the relative effects of the different factors that influenced the level of British union membership concentration between 1892 and 1987. Five factors are identified as influencing this development: mergers, formations, dissolutions, breakaways, and membership change. Marked occupational differences in the relative effect of these factors are shown. In aggregate terms, mergers and membership change tend to be complementary in effect until 1946 and counteractive thereafter.

ISSN:0007-1080    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8543.1994.tb01014.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1994

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Book reviewed in this article:New Perspectives on Industrial Disputesedited by David Metcalf and Simon Milner.The New Industrial Relationsby Neil Millward.Willing Slaves?by Andrew Scott.Human Resource Management: Key Concepts and Skillsby P. B. Beaumont.Principles of Human Resource Managementby D. Goss.Managing Human Resources and Industrial Relationsby J. Storey and Keith Sisson.Privatization and Employment Relations: The Case of the Water Industryby Julia O'Connell Davidson.Trade Union Behaviour, Pay Bargaining and Economic Performanceby R. J. Flanagan, K.O. Moene and M. Wallerstein.Employment Security and Labor Market Behaviouredited by Christoph F. Buechtemann.Cultural Perspectives on Organizationsby Mats Alvesson.Breaking from Taylorism: Changing Forms of Work in the Automobile Industryby Ulrich Jürgens, Thomas Malsch and Knuth Dohse.Labor and an Integrated Europeedited by Lloyd Ulman, Barry Eichengreen and William T. Dickens.The Politics of French Trade Unionismby Jeff Bridgford

ISSN:0007-1080    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8543.1994.tb01015.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1994

数据来源: WILEY