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AbstractIn this paper we investigate the relationship between the remuneration of the highest paid director and the economic performance of approximately 300 large UK companies over the 1980s and early 1990s. The rate of growth of directors' remuneration was very high over this time period (about 20 per cent per year on average) and very weakly linked to corporate performance. Any such link breaks down after 1988, when the very high pay awards received by top directors in the recessionary period up to 1991 appear to be unrelated to the performance of their companies, whether corporate performance is measured using stock market data or using accounting data on earnings per share. Rather, it appears that corporate growth is an important determinant of the change in directors' remuneration. These results strongly call into question the effectiveness of current systems of pay determination for top company directors.

ISSN:0007-1080    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8543.1993.tb00377.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1993

数据来源: WILEY

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AbstractIn this paper, data are reported from a longitudinal study of managers' attitudes and behaviour in industrial relations based on a sample of fellows and members of the British Institute of Management. An account of two surveys, carried out in 1980 and 1990, follows an examination of theories of the managerial role in industrial relations and the presentation of a research model. Managerial attitudes and behaviour are then analysed with respect to views on trade unions, personal commitments to collective representation, collective bargaining, employee participation and involvement and views on the role of government. The findings have an added significance because survey dates roughly correspond with the so‐called ‘Thatcher years’. The conclusion is that some major changes in industrial relations have occurred during the decade in question, but there are also substantial continuities which cannot be ‘read off’ directly from the dramatic alterations in the political, economic and legal en

ISSN:0007-1080    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8543.1993.tb00378.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1993

数据来源: WILEY

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AbstractConventional wisdom maintains that industrial turmoil accounts largely for the enactment of the compulsory arbitration law, the Conciliation and Arbitration Act 1904 and the Trade Disputes (Emergency Provisions) Decree 1968, in Australia and Nigeria respectively. Considering this view as patently inadequate, the paper investigates a broader background of this law in both countries and finds more critical factors at work. Important as the industrial turmoil was, this factor turned out to be merely a symptom of a more fundamental phenomenon, namely the lack of an institutionalized consensual collective bargaining system, arising largely from a similar form of interaction between the state and industrial relations in both countries.

ISSN:0007-1080    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8543.1993.tb00379.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1993

数据来源: WILEY

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AbstractThis paper examines the impact of the ‘political contingency’ upon management strategy in New Zealand's newly established public enterprises. It is argued that an unambiguous state strategy of readying the organizations swiftly for privatization gave management a clear mandate for radical restructuring. The coincidence of commercial and political rationality greatly reduced the likelihood of direct political intervention in the operation of the organizations and led to substantial changes to traditional patterns of industrial relations. Variations in management strategy reflected different organizational circumstances rather than differing applications of the political continge

ISSN:0007-1080    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8543.1993.tb00380.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1993

数据来源: WILEY

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AbstractAs part of a drive for efficiency and decentralization in government operations, Sweden is implementing a new system of pay administration in the public sector that is marked by a clear movement away from centralized wage negotiation and fixed salary increases towards more flexible and individualized pay rates. Despite rhetoric about performance and efficiency, the changes appear to be focused mainly on expanding wage differentials among occupational groups and offering market premiums to recruit and retain valued employees. Although the new pay system has not been integrated into a general management approach, it offers considerable challenge to the norms and values of solidarity that have traditionally been held so strongly in Sweden.

ISSN:0007-1080    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8543.1993.tb00381.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1993

数据来源: WILEY

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AbstractA major focus of the Conservative government's employment policy since 1979 has been the reduction of union power within the labour market, the employment relationship and as representatives of a separate ‘labour interest’ in society ' union exclusion. The principal impact of the legislative changes is to deny workers access to resources of collective power, thereby commensurately increasing employers' discretion to determine the terms of the employment relationship. When forming new subsidiaries and establishments, or purchasing non‐union subsidiaries, employers have been able to resist unionization and recognition except on their own terms, but comparatively few have terminated existing union recognition agreements, preferring to marginalize the role of unions through the adoption of partial exclusion policies ' joint consultation, direct communication, performance‐related pay, and the fragmentation of common employment and bar

ISSN:0007-1080    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8543.1993.tb00382.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1993

数据来源: WILEY

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AbstractThe abolition of the National Dock Labour Scheme in July 1989 resulted in a massive restructuring of Britain's ports which in many respects has mirror‐imaged that of the rest of the economy over the previous decade. In this context, the growth of small firms in the port transport industry since 1989, and in particular the emergence of workers' co‐operatives, can only be explained as a process through which capital has sought to regain or strengthen control over the labour process and offset the (highly variable) costs of fluctuating labour demand. The result has been increased productivity and control for the port authorities that own Britain's po

ISSN:0007-1080    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8543.1993.tb00383.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1993

数据来源: WILEY

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AbstractThe article presents an overview of some of the significant developments in British industrial relations in 1992 from a managerial perspective. Against a background of deepening recession and redundancy, and some attempts to reorganize more flexibly, company approaches to equal opportunities, to training and development and to employee involvement (both individual and collective) are outlined. Interpretation reveals contradictory trends and a contrast between the rhetoric and the reality of innovation. Unless greater future emphasis is given to meeting employee as well as organizational needs, further problems seem likely to emerge.

ISSN:0007-1080    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8543.1993.tb00384.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1993

数据来源: WILEY

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Book reviewed in this article:The Power to Manage? Employers and Industrial Relations in Comparative‐Historical Perspectiveedited by Steven Tolliday and Jonathan Zeitlin.Comparative Industrial Relations: Contemporary Research and Theoryedited by Roy J. AdamsA Flexible Future? Prospects for Employment and Organisationedited by Paul Blyton and Jonathan MorrisLife and Death at Work: Industrial Accidents as a Case of Socially Produced Errorby Tom DwyerEngineering Culture: Control and Commitment in a High‐Tech Corporationby Gideon KundaJapan and the Global Economy: Issues and Trends in the 1990sedited by Jonathan Morris.Designing Organizations: A Decision‐Making Perspectiveby Richard Butler. RoutledgeRethinking Organization: New Directions in Organization Theory and Analysisedited by Michael Reed and Michael HughesThe New Institutionalism in Organizational Analysisedited by Walter W. Powell and Paul J. DiMaggioContemporary British Industrial Relationsby Sid Kessler and Fred BaylissTaming the Trade Unions: A Guide to the Thatcher Government's Employment Reforms, 1980‐90by Charles G. Hanson, MacmillanHelping the Unemployedby R. DisneyThe Economy under Mrs Thatcher 1979–1990by Christopher JohnsonInternational Comparisons of Vocational Education and Training for Intermediate Skillsedited by

ISSN:0007-1080    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8543.1993.tb00385.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1993

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0007-1080    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8543.1993.tb00386.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1993

数据来源: WILEY