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AbstractThe paper notes that in both management theory and pluralist political theory there has recently been increased emphasis on culture and values. The implication is that the ideas of unitarism and pluralism in industrial relations need to be reconsidered. Traditionally, they have been expounded in terms of interests, and values are significantly different from interests. An emphasis on values rather than interests raises some new problems both for unitarists and pluralists. For unitarists, ‘managing values’ can involve paradox and contradiction. For pluralists, emphasis on values requires a new conception of the process by which differences are reconciled, and may require changes to union structu

ISSN:0007-1080    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8543.1996.tb00486.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1996

数据来源: WILEY

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AbstractThis paper examines compulsory union membership in 50 highly unionized companies between 1979 and 1991. One hundred per cent membership has collapsed among non‐manuals. Post‐entry 100% membership remains in the majority of manual units, as does the pre‐entry closed shop among craft workers. Fewer written union membership agreements, and more unwritten verbal agreements and unofficial understandings, were evident. This pattern is accounted for by the interplay of four factors: product market competition, managerial indulgency, workplace collective organization and labour tur

ISSN:0007-1080    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8543.1996.tb00487.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1996

数据来源: WILEY

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AbstractProfit‐sharing and employee ownership in companies have attracted considerable interest, yet there has been little research on factors predicting the adoption and maintenance of these plans. This study uses new data from a survey of 500 US public companies, and panel data on corporate financial variables, to examine factors predicting the presence and adoption of profit‐ sharing and employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs) in the 1975–91 period. Several findings support productivity‐related motivations for such plans (including higher R&D levels among old profit‐sharing firms, and recent adoption of job enrichment programmes among new profit‐sharing firms), while others support flexibility‐related motivations (including higher variance in profits prior to the adoption of profit‐sharing plans and ESOPs). Unionized firms were less likely to have either type of plan in 1975, but equally likely to adopt them subsequently (often in concessionary contracts). Comparisons of cross‐sectional and panel results illustrate advantages of panel data in disentangling the causes and effects of profit

ISSN:0007-1080    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8543.1996.tb00488.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1996

数据来源: WILEY

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AbstractMulti‐unionism is a common feature of the industrial relations scene, yet to date there has been relatively little economic analysis of its effects, in particular on the outcome of wage negotiations. In this paper, we examine the impact of multi‐unionism—specifically, the degree of union membership concentration—on the determination of the relative pay of a particular occupational group, namely that of schoolteachers in England and Wales. We measure teacher trade union concentration using the Herfindahl index of concentration, and find that, after controlling for other possible influences, changes in the value of this index have a positive impact on schoolteachers' relative pay. In addition, we find union membership concentration to be a better indicator of ‘union pushfulness’ effects in wage determination than the traditional measure, union density. These findings are potentially of wider significance for the analysis of wage determination in multi‐union

ISSN:0007-1080    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8543.1996.tb00489.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1996

数据来源: WILEY

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AbstractThis study extends prior research by separating executive remuneration into salary and annual bonus for the purpose of empirically verifying their determinants. A model is introduced to estimate the extent to which pay and its determinants are related. Based on a net sample of 90 large UK firms, salary was found to be strongly related to firm size, as opposed to annual bonus, which was modestly associated with both firm performance and size. An important discovery was that salary showed no relationship to a firm's economic performance. The inability to find any association between salary and performance suggests that each component of pay has a different set of determining factors.

ISSN:0007-1080    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8543.1996.tb00490.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.tb00491.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1996

数据来源: WILEY

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Book reviewed in this article:The New Workplace and Trade Unionism: Critical Perspectives on Work and Organisationedited by Peter Ackers, Chris Smith and Paul SmithManaging Employee Relations in the Hotel and Catering Industryby Rosemary LucasProductivity Management in Hospitality and Tourismedited by Nick JohnsThe Comparative Political Economy of Industrial Relationsedited by Kirsten S. Weaver and Lowell TurnerEnriching Production: Perspectives on Volvo's Uddevalla Plant as an Alternative to Lean Productionedited by Åke SandbergLabour Law and Freedom: Further Essays in Labour Lawby Lord Wedderburn. Lawrence&Wishart, London, 1995, xv + 464 pp., £24.95 paper.Future Skill Demand and Supply: Trends, Shortages and Glutsedited by Hilary MetcalfAcquiring Skills: Market Failures, their Symptoms and Policy Responsesedited by Alison L. Booth and Dennis J. SnowerThe Youth Labour Market in Britain: the Role of Interventionby B. M. Deakin.Incomes and the Welfare State: Essays on Britain and Europeby A. B. AtkinsonNew Inequalities: The Changing Distribution of Income and Wealth in the United Kingdomedited by John HillsManagement, Labour and Industrial Politics in Modern Europe: the Quest for Productivity Growth during the Twentieth Centuryedited by Joseph Melling and Alan McKinlayBlackwell Encyclopedic Dictionary of Organizational Behaviouredited by Nigel Nichols

ISSN:0007-1080    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8543.1996.tb00492.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.tb00493.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1996

数据来源: WILEY