Labour and Management Co-operation

Reviews / Votes

'This is an important contribution to the debate on partnership. It looks closely at the diversity of approaches and raises issues with regards to the precondition and sustainability of partnership. It is a systematic and novel engagement which is essential reading for all interested in the future of co-operation in the workplace'. Miguel Martinez Lucio, Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, UK 'Partnership has been a major theme of employment relations and human resource management over the past decade. As business seeks to restore employee trust in working for capitalism, it is likely to be a central theme of the post-credit crunch era. Stewart Johnstone's timely book combines an important critical analysis of the academic debate over partnership, with some valuable in-depth case-studies of partnership in practice. His findings are central to any discussion of contemporary employment relations'. Professor Peter Ackers, Business School, Loughborough University 'Without doubt, the methodology adopted by the author is absorbing, showing concern for detail, and with high incidence of reliability...Perhaps the most striking feature of the book is the extensively detailed data obtained by the author, which is certainly more reliable and holistic, which helps derive tenable conclusions about the outcomes of the labour management partnership...These conclusions will certainly compel unions in the short as well as long run to devise alternative structures of their working so to sustain the worker interest in the institution of trade union.' - Debi S. Saini, Vision - The Journal of Business Perspective