Employment Relationship in UK Law
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Towards a New Standard Employment Relationship in Western Europe
This paper examines critically the concept of the standard employment relationship (SER), differentiating between form and substance. It explores the social functions served by the SER and its evol...
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Contracts, complexity and contradictions. The changing employment
relationship
Examines the changing employment relationship between organizations and their staff. Analyses the relationship in terms of five contractual areas – knowledge requirements, psychological needs, effi...
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Restructuring the employment relationship in Surrey County Council
This article looks at attempts made by a case study organization, Surrey County Council, to evaluate and restructure the employment relationship in the context of a range of financial, managerial a...
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Theorizing the Employment Relationship: Materialists and Institutionalists
Books reviewed: Paul Blyton and Peter Turnbull. The Dynamics of Employee Relations. Bruce E. Kaufman, editor. Theoretical Perspectives on Work and the Employment Relationship. Reviewed by Peter Ack...
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How a demanding employment relationship relates to affective commitment in public organizations: A multilevel analysis
It has recently been recognized in the public administration literature that multiple reforms coexist in public organizations, ranging from the Weberian bureaucracy to New Public Management and, mo...
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Understanding employment relationship in Indian organizations through the lens of psychological contracts
Purpose: Most research on employment relationship has been done on the Anglo‐Saxon context, the results of which may not be totally valid for India. The emerging employment relationship in India is...
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Individualization of the Employment Relationship and the Implications for Trade Unions
A whole array of management‐led initiatives over the past ten years has resulted in a significant shift in the basis of the employment relationship. In summary, this may be described as a move from...
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Productive Efficiency and the Employment Relationship – The Case of Quality Circles
The argument in this article is put from the standpoint that employers continually need to exercise control in order to realise the capacity of employees at work. One technique for achieving this i...
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Home‐based teleworking and the employment relationship. Managerial challenges and dilemmas
As home‐based teleworking grows in the UK, more evidence is needed of how working from home shapes the employment relationship and the implications this may have for those line managers responsible...
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Bargaining (De)centralization, Macroeconomic Performance and Control over the Employment Relationship
Based on data for 20 OECD countries, this paper analyses the effect of bargaining centralization on performance and control over the employment relationship. Rejecting both the corporatist thesis a...
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