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AbstractThis exploratory paper examines the relationship between the remuneration of the highest paid director and company performance in the privatized utilities. Four conclusions regarding the structure of top directors' pay emerge from the analysis. First, the salary plus bonus remuneration of top directors in the privatized utilities has increased by 12 per cent per annum since 1990. Second, average employee pay in these utilities has grown by about 3.1 per cent per annum over the same period. This suggests that top pay growth in the privatized utilities has outstripped that of the average worker since 1990. Third, the analysis cannot isolate a robust statistical relationship between directors' compensation and measures of pre‐dated company performance. Finally, directors' share option dealings can sometimes considerably inflate their overall compensation.Taken together, these findings implicitly question the current efficacy of remuneration committees for determining boardroom pay in the privatized utilities. One solution, which may enable shareholders more accurately to assess executive performance, is for complete disclosure of all components of directors' pay in the company account

ISSN:0007-1080    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8543.1995.tb00429.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1995

数据来源: WILEY

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AbstractThe paper aims to determine whether or not ceteris paribus women workers are less interested in joining trade unions than male employees by an analysis of the importance of sex for the individuaľs union membership decision. Cross‐tabulations and discriminant analyses are used to examine the Work Attitudes and Histories Survey of the Social Change and Economic Life Initiative of1986. An employee's sex is revealed to be related to propensity to unionize, a finding attributable mainly to women's concentration in low‐paid occupations and to the significantly lower favourability to trade unions expressed by female workers, compared with male emplo

ISSN:0007-1080    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8543.1995.tb00430.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1995

数据来源: WILEY

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AbstractDespite the existence of effective equal pay legislation in the UK since 1975 aimed at eradicating pay discrimination, women are still in receipt of only 79.5 per cent of the hourly earnings received by men (EOR 1994b). Whitehouse (1992) claims that a centralized collective bargaining model is more likely to lead to equality for women in the labour market than a liberalized individualistic model. The model was tested at an aggregated level for 13 OECD countries. This article provides a case study which charts a trade union claim for equal pay over a period often years (1984–94), which may be seen as an examination of the Whitehouse proposition at a disaggregated level. The paper highlights the barriers to equality bargaining and analyses the case study to identify the criteria necessary for achieving equalit

ISSN:0007-1080    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8543.1995.tb00431.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1995

数据来源: WILEY

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AbstractThis paper seeks to begin the reversal of the gender bias in comparative industrial relations research which is still focused on comparing and contrasting the regimes that cover mainly male manual workers. There is little systematic evidence on industrial relations practices in private or even public services, for non‐manual workers or for atypical workers. These employment areas are central for women's employment and are of increasing importance in the labour market, but few attempts have been made to compare industrial relations regimes by reference to the protection they afford to women. Taking into account industrial relations practice in these areas can change significantly the classification and estimated coverage of collective bargaining systems. By ‘mainstrearning’ gender issues it also becomes clear that current macroeconomic policy proposals have major gender implications that are ignored in current d

ISSN:0007-1080    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8543.1995.tb00432.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1995

数据来源: WILEY

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AbstractOn the basis of fieldwork conducted during June 1992 and 1993, this study examines outcomes of two recent vocational training policies in Korea, cooperative training, and ChangWon Industrial Masters' College. It was found that these two policies, seeking to imitate the German dual vocational training model, failed to produce the industrial skills sought. These outcomes can be explained by examining two social contexts surrounding the policies in comparison with those in Germany: the exclusive role of the government in industrial relations, and a minimal interest in skill formation by manufactur‐ingfir

ISSN:0007-1080    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8543.1995.tb00433.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1995

数据来源: WILEY

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AbstractIn Ireland there is a widespread belief that the country is moving towards a ‘European model’ of industrial relations. One claim is that the industrial relations system can be now described as social corporatist. Advocates of this view invariably point to the substance and the durability of the latest round of centralized wage agreements in support of this claim. This paper assesses the validity of the argument. Because discussions about social corporatism are so diffuse, the first part of the paper develops a framework that sheds light on what the concept means in economic and institutional terms. In the second part of the paper this framework is used to assess the functioning of the recent national pay deals. The conclusion is that these agreements should not be regarded as social corporat

ISSN:0007-1080    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8543.1995.tb00434.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1995

数据来源: WILEY

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AbstractThis paper exploits the Workplace Industrial Relations Survey from 1990 (WIRS3) to examine the determinants of workplace injuries for a sample of manufacturing establishments in the UK. A key focus of this paper is an assessment of the role played by union‐appointed safety representatives and joint health and safety consultative committees in reducing the frequency of workplace accidents. We find that joint consultative committees, with all employee representatives appointed by unions, significantly reduce workplace injuries relative to those establishments where the management alone determine health and safety arrangements. However, an important role is also found for those joint consultative commitees where no employee representatives are appointed by union

ISSN:0007-1080    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8543.1995.tb00435.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1995

数据来源: WILEY

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AbstractThis article examines changes in the financial performance of British trade unions in the early 1990s. Using survey data, it looks for a relationship between changes in financial management and changes in financial performance. Unions have continued to increase the concentration of financial decision‐making and the sophistication of financial systems. However, financial concerns have become no more central to union decision‐making and as a result financial management improvements do not lead to improvements in financial performance. We argue that new financial management techniques lead to increases in the cost base as union organizations become more centralized and bureaucratic. The implications for representative effectiveness are discus

ISSN:0007-1080    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8543.1995.tb00436.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1995

数据来源: WILEY

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Book reviewed in this article:Human Resource Management in the Multi‐Divisional Companyby John Purcell and Bruce Ahlstrand.The Mutual Gains Enterpriseby Thomas A. Kochan and Paul Osterman.Models of Management: Work, Authority, and Organization in a Comparative Perspectiveby Mauro F. Guillen.The Market for Trainingedited by Robert McNabb and Keith Whitfield. AveburyHuman Resource Management in Europe, Perspectives for the 1990s, edited by Paul S. Kirkbride. Routledge,Policy and Practice in European Human Resource Management: The Price Water house Cranjield Surveyedited by Chris Brewster and Ariane HegewischWorkplace Industrial Relations and the Global Challengeedited by Jacques BClanger, P. K. Edwards and Larry Haiven.New Frontiers in European Industrial Relationsedited by Richard Hyman and Anthony Ferne

ISSN:0007-1080    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8543.1995.tb00437.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1995

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0007-1080    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8543.1995.tb00438.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1995

数据来源: WILEY