Developing Positive Employment Relations

By: Stewart Johnstone and Adrian Wilkinson

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Synopsis: Offering acritical assessment of the main conceptual debates concerning labour managementpartnership and cooperation at the workplace, this book evaluates the searchfor positive employment relations in five countries. The provision ofcollective employee representation, normally through trade unions, is centralto most definitions of labour management partnership, and the aim is to developcollaborative relationships between unions, employers and employeerepresentatives for the benefit all parties. While traditionally associated with employment relations in the coordinatedmarket economies of the continental European nations, partnership approacheshave attracted increasing attention in recent decades in the liberal marketeconomies of the UK, Ireland, USA, Australia and New Zealand. Developing Positive Employment Relations assessesthe conceptual debates, reviews the employment relations context in each ofthese countries, and provides workplace case studies of the dynamics of partnershipat the enterprise level.