Participation and Democracy at Work
Essays in Honour of Harvie Ramsay
Published on 2. March 2005
Book
Paperback/Softback
272 pages
978-1-4039-0004-3 (ISBN)
Description
Employee participation is a dynamic and contested area of organisational behaviour, attracting continuing academic, practitioner and policy interest and debate. This book will bring together a fresh, critical and comparative perspective on the full range of participation practices, drawing on the work of leading scholars in the field. It is inteded to honour the work of Harvie Ramsay, who died tragically in 2001 and who was a pioneering writer on participation and democracy in this field.
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Series
Edition
2005
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
418 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4039-0004-3 (9781403900043)
DOI
10.1007/978-1-137-04216-3
Schweitzer Classification
Persons
JEFF HYMAN is Professor of Management in the Business School, University of Aberdeen, UK.
PAUL THOMPSON is Professor of Human Resource Management at the University of Strathclyde, UK.
BILL HARLEY is Associate Professor of Human Resource Management and Organisational Studies at the University of Melbourne, Australia.
PAUL THOMPSON is Professor of Human Resource Management at the University of Strathclyde, UK.
BILL HARLEY is Associate Professor of Human Resource Management and Organisational Studies at the University of Melbourne, Australia.
Content
Introduction.- The Paradoxes of Participation; B.Harley, J.Hyman & P.Thompson.- Employee Involvement: Patterns and Explanations; M.Marchington.- Hope or Hype? High Performance Work Systems; B.Harley.- In the Name of Customer Service: Service Work and Participation; A.Sturdy & M.Korczynski.- Teamworking: Partial Participation; J.Benders.- Trojan Horses or Paper Tigers? Assessing the Significance of European Works Councils; M.Hall & P.Marginson.- Employee Share Ownership, Employment Relations and Corporate Governance; A.Pendleton.- Promoting Workplace Development: Lessons for UK Policy from Nordic Approaches to Job Redesign and Quality of Working Life; J.Payne & E.Keep.- Theorising the State and Economic Democracy; P.Boreham & R.Hall.- You've Got to Admit it's Getting Better: Organised Labour and Internationalisation; N.Haworth.- New Uniion Strategies and Forms of Work Organisation in UK Manufacturing; A.Danford.- Organisational Participation and Women: An Attitude Problem?; D.Scholarios & H.Ramsay.- Conclusion.