Employee Relations

Introduction
Part One Understanding the employment relationship
1 What is the employment relationship?
1.1 Introduction
1.2 The contract of employment
1.3 The psychological contract
1.4 Differing perspectives on the employment relationship
1.5 Summary
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Case 1: The arrival of Zonka in the UK
2 The changing context and nature of the employment relationship
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Changes in the wider environments within which work takes place
2.3 Changes in the organisation of work
2.4 The nature of the employment relationship
2.5 Summary
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Case 2: Ben's Garage
Part Two Regulating the employment relationship
3 The role of power, justice and culture in the regulation of the employment relationship
3.1 Introduction
3.2 The role of power in the regulation of the employment relationship
3.3 The role of justice in the regulation of the employment relationship
3.4 The role of culture within the employment relationship
3.5 Summary
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Case 3: Power, justice and culture in Publicservice.org
4 Managerial approaches and the role of managers in regulating the employment
elationship
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Management control strategies
4.3 Management styles in employment relations
4.4 Managing without unions: small and medium-sized non-union employers
4.5 The factors that influence the choice of strategy and style adopted by managers
4.6 Summary
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Case 4: Prosperous Life
5 The role of trade unions and employers' associations in regulating the employment
elationship
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Defining the purpose of trade unions
5.3 The functions of trade unions
5.4 The changing structure of trade unionism in Britain
5.5 Trades Union Congress and European Trade Union Confederation
5.6 Employers' associations and the Union of Industrial and Employers' Confederations of Europe
5.7 Trade union membership and recognition
5.8 Partnership approaches in the workplace: the way forward?
5.9 Union officials and workplace representatives
5.1 Health and safety committees and union representation
5.11 Summary
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Case 5: The TUC Partnership Institute
6 The role of government in regulating the employment relationship
6.1 Introduction
6.2 An overview of government's roles and basis of power
6.3 Political ideologies, trade union power and the employment relationship
6.4 The postwar settlement, 1945-79
6.5 The new relationship, 1979-97
6.6 The Third Way, 1997 onwards
6.7 Summary
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Case 6: Employee relations at Vertex
7 Regulating the employment relationship through collective bargaining
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Collective bargaining: definition and purposes
7.3 The collective bargaining agreement
7.4 The structure of collective bargaining
7.5 Coverage of collective bargaining in the UK and other developed economies
7.6 Legal issues relating to collective bargaining
7.7 Major changes in the collective bargaining levels
7.8 Collective bargaining and the process of negotiating
7.9 Industrial action
7.1 Third-party intervention: the role of ACAS
7.11 Summary
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Case 7: Bargaining for change at Magnox Electric plc
8 Regulating the employment relationship through employee participation and involvement
8.1 Introduction
8.2 Understanding the terminology of and philosophical differences between employee participation and involvement and their differing aims
8.3 Employee participation
8.4 Employee involvement
8.5 Common terms but different intentions: differing