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AbstractThe increase in the number of women occupying managerial positions has led to a debate about whether women are bringing a distinct style of management to organizations in the 1990s. It has also prompted a reassessment of the traditional negative stereotype of women managers. This paper examines whether there are sex differences in how women and men manage. It also reports on managers' motivation to work and their attitudes towards women managers. The data are drawn from a large study of men and women senior managers in five multinational companies. My argument is that there is no such thing as a ‘female’ management style and that the similarities between women and men far outweigh the differences between women and men as groups. Powerful organizational imperatives allow for few substantial modifications in management appro

ISSN:0007-1080    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8543.1996.tb00478.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1996

数据来源: WILEY

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AbstractManagerial strategies designed to elicit greater employee commitment in production have received much attention in recent industrial relations reseach. Training is seen to form a core component of such strategies, yielding such beneficial outcomes as improved efficiency and employee motivation. Yet the connections between training strategy and performance outcomes have been treated in an overly simplistic fashion. This in turn reflects a lack of empirical inquiry at the level of the shop‐floor currently to be found in the subject area. By integrating an investigation of the workplace into the analysis of management strategy and performance outcomes, it is possible to develop a deeper understanding of the linkages between training provision, commitment and systems of rewar

ISSN:0007-1080    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8543.1996.tb00479.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1996

数据来源: WILEY

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AbstractAre Japanese enterprise unions similar, or are there substantial variations among these unions in relation to their dependence on management and their structures for member involvement? Using a survey of unions conducted in 1991 and detailed interviews with union officials in 1993, a typology of enterprise unionism is developed. A preliminary assessment of the model is then made with reference to a range of industrial relations practices and behaviour.

ISSN:0007-1080    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8543.1996.tb00480.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1996

数据来源: WILEY

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AbstractThis study has two aims: first, to examine the hypothesis that East German union members are strongly individualistic, instrumental and passive with regard to participation in collective activities; second, to test a selection of social psychological theories of willingness to participate in collective action, in a post‐socialist context. A survey of members of the textile union provided some initial indication that union members in East Germany do not behave in a significantly different way from their Western counterparts with regard to their willingness to become active. Regression analysis revealed two major antecedents of participation: perceived instrumentality of collective action, and union identit

ISSN:0007-1080    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8543.1996.tb00481.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1996

数据来源: WILEY

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AbstractMuch of the literature on the determinants of union activism has focused on biographical and attitudinal precursors or correlates of several measures of union participation. Although interactionist theory emphasizes the importance of social context, little attention has been paid to union presence. The argument of this paper is that union presence, defined by certain structural arrangements, and the quality of union service, influences measures of workplace and non‐workplace union participation through the mediating influence of union orientation. The paper begins by reviewing the literature on union presence and participation, before presenting a model of the joint impact of union service and union presence on both on‐ and off‐the job union participation. Data are drawn from a study of membership involvement within the Irish‐based Services, Industrial, Professional and Technical Union (SIPTU). The main findings are that there are significant relationships between presence and service level variables and measures of union participation. In particular, service variables appear to affect workplace union participation largely through the mediating influence of union orientation. Presence variables, by contrast, have both direct and indirect influence on participation in union activities within and outside the wo

ISSN:0007-1080    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8543.1996.tb00482.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1996

数据来源: WILEY

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AbstractThe article explores the changing role of China's trade unions in the era of post‐Mao economic reform in the light of two alternative scenarios of organizational evolution—corporatism and civil society. Using interviews and survey materials as well as documentary evidence, it concludes that the increasing complexity of the Chinese economy and the tensions it is producing are creating an associational universe of workers' organizations which is diverse and volatile, embodying elements of both scenarios. In such a context, corporatist industrial relations will be difficult to establish and maintain and it is likely that, in relations between unions and the party‐state, the principles of corporatist inclusion and free association will come into increasing con

ISSN:0007-1080    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8543.1996.tb00483.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1996

数据来源: WILEY

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Book reviewed in this article:Manufacturing Knowledge: A History of the Hawthorne Experimentsby Richard GillespieManaging Innovation and Change: People, Technology and Strategyby Jon ClarkManaging Employee Involvement and Participationby Jeff Hyman and Bob MasonEmployee Participation in Europeby Herman KnudsenWork and Employment in Europeby Peter Cressey and Bryn JonesThe Economics of the Trade Unionby Alison L. BoothLabour Economics, Volumes 1–IV, by Orley C. Ashenfelter and Kevin F. Hallock. Edward ElgarThe Conservative Party and the Trade Unionsby Peter DoreyAn Atlas of Industrial Protest in Britain, 1750–1990by Andrew Charlesworth, David Gilbert, Adrian Randall, Humphrey Randall and Chris WrigleyTime, Labor and Social Domination: A Reinterpretation of Marx's Critical Theoryby Moishe Pos

ISSN:0007-1080    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8543.1996.tb00484.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1996

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0007-1080    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8543.1996.tb00485.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1996

数据来源: WILEY