Employee Relations: An International Journal

Marsh, Ray; Pedler, Mike

1979 Employee Relations: An International Journal

doi: 10.1108/eb054927

This research identifies factors which affect the unionisation of white collar workers and provides an analytical model for the use of practitioners in employee relations. The article is based on a study carried out at Sheffield City Polytechnic from 19741977. The research took a company or organisationlevel perspective rather than the national or industrial ones favoured by previous researchers. In an organisational context the union recognition process is one which creates a profound change in relationship between white collar staff and their employer a change from what may be described as an individualistic to a more collective relationship.

Wilson, Brian

1979 Employee Relations: An International Journal

doi: 10.1108/eb054928

Part 1 of this article concerned itself with the importance of added value as a concept for use in National planning, and made some suggestions for Government on ways to increase Gross Domestic Product and also on ways of redistributing it. This second, and final, part of the article concentrates on the company level and aims to provide ideas for the use of added value in employee relations.

Savicvi, Dusan

1979 Employee Relations: An International Journal

doi: 10.1108/eb054929

The development of human society and of culture shows that changes in society and social relations have not always been followed by changes of the same intensity in education. If education lags behind the social changes in a greater measure, then the crises in education are deeper and social intervention is more necessary. However much we may try to regard changes in education individually, they are in the final instance a reflection of the state and changes in society, because instruction and education are a part of social labour. They are a function of society and appear as one of the moving forces of its development, or, on the contrary, as a factor of maintaining outgrown relations. Therefore, the character of instruction and education is determined by the goals which society puts before them. The conclusion derived from this is that changes in education, in its system and organisation cannot be successfully carried out independently from changes which occur in society.

Hancock, P.J.

1979 Employee Relations: An International Journal

doi: 10.1108/eb054930

It has long been recognised that one of the rights of owning shares in a company is to receive a written annual report on the current state of health of the company and its performance over the preceding 12 months. Should this same right extend to employees Many would argue that it should because the employee unlike the shareholder is normally dependent entirely on one company's ability to survive and pay, amongst other items, wages and salaries. Also, in many cases, an employee has invested many years of his working life with one company and therefore has a substantial vested interest in the performance and future survival of the company.