Industrial Relations: Theory and Practice

496 Pages·2010·1.57 MB·English

by  Trevor Colling

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INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS

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INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
THEORY AND PRACTICE
Third Edition
EDITED BY
TREVOR COLLING AND MICHAEL TERRY

John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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This edition first published 2010
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CONTENTS

List of Figures and Tables vii
List of Common Abbreviations ix
List of Contributors xi
Preface xv
Introduction 1
1 Work, the Employment Relationship and the Field
of Industrial Relations 3
Trevor Colling and Michael Terry
Section One British Industrial Relations in Comparative Context 27
2 British Industrial Relations: Between Security and Flexibility 29
Colin Crouch
3 British Industrial Relations: The European Dimension 54
Richard Hyman
Section Two Actors 81
4 Management: Caught Between Competing Views
of the Organization 83
Keith Sisson and John Purcell
5 State, Capital and Labour Relations in Crisis 106
Jason Heyes and Peter Nolan
6 Trade Unions: Power and Influence in a Changed Context 125
Melanie Simms and Andy Charlwood
Section Three Contexts 149
7 Public Sector Industrial Relations: The Challenge
of Modernization 151
Stephen Bach
8 Industrial Relations in the Private Sector 178
James Arrowsmith
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vi CONTENTS
9 Multinational Companies: Transforming National Industrial
Relations? 207
Paul Marginson and Guglielmo Meardi
10 Industrial Relations in Small Firms 231
Monder Ram and Paul Edwards
Section Four Processes 253
11 Negotiation and Collective Bargaining 255
William Brown
12 Employee Representation 275
Michael Terry
13 The Changing Legal Framework of Employment Relations 298
Linda Dickens and Mark Hall
14 Legal Institutions and the Regulation of Workplaces 323
Trevor Colling
Section Five Outcomes 347
15 Pay and Working Time: Shifting Contours of
the Employment Relationship 349
Damien Grimshaw and Jill Rubery
16 Industrial Relations and Economic Performance 378
Paul Edwards and Sukanya Sengupta
17 Skills Policy and the Displacement of Industrial Relations:
The Elephant in the Corner? 398
Ewart Keep, Caroline Lloyd and Jonathan Payne
18 Equality and Diversity: The Ultimate Industrial Relations Concern 422
Deborah Dean and Sonia Liff
Index 447
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FIGURES AND TABLES

Figures
6.1 Trade union membership density 1950–2006 131
11.1 The approximate coverage of principal pay fixing arrangements for
private sector employees in Great Britain, 1940–2004 257
15.1 Trends in the relative level of the minimum wage, 1999–2007 356
15.2 Changes in the average gender pay ratio 358
15.3 Trends in flexible working arrangements, 2001–06 372
Tables
2.1 Policies and practices for combining flexibility and security 31
2.2 UK policies and practices for combining flexibility and security 39
2.3 Female participation in employment (2007), European countries
and the USA 41
2.4 Percentage foreign population (2007), European countries 42
2.5 Balance of trade as % of GDP (2007) and average annual growth
rates (%) (1999–2008), advanced economies 43
2.6 Annual balance sheet totals of credit institutions as % of GDP (2006
or 2005), European countries 44
2.7 Mortgages as a % of disposable income (2006), selected countries 45
2.8 Women employed in health and other care occupations as % of all
persons employed (2007), European and selected other countries 48
2.9 Social protection payments per capita in € (2006), European Union 49
4.1 Mergers and acquisitions in the UK, 1997–2006 92
4.2 Competing views of the work organization 98
7.1 Proportions employed within the UK public and private sectors
by key characteristic in 2006 (%) 153
7.2 UK public sector employment by sector; headcount (000s) 158
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viii FIGURES AND TABLES
7.3 UK public sector workforce in the UK headcount 160

7.4 Membership of UK trade unions with more than 100 000

members in 2007 170

8.1 Workforce jobs by industry (000s), 1978–2007 180

8.2 Manufacturing employment, 1998–2006 189

10.1 Dimensions of organization: the sector and the fi rm 245

14.1 Mapping responses to legislation 327

15.1 Pay determination in UK workplaces, 1998–2004 353

15.2 Listing of national minimum wage rates 355

15.3 Incidence of variable pay schemes, 2004 360

15.4 Usual weekly hours worked, by percentage share of

employees, 1992–2008 365

15.5 The incidence of paid and unpaid overtime in WLB2

and WLB3 366

15.6 Reasons for working long hours, % of employees

by occupational group 367

15.7 Flexible working and leave arrangements for non-managerial

employees in continuing workplaces, 1998 and 2004 371

17.1 Joint regulation of training – % of workplaces 409

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