Employee Relations: An International Journal

Fishwick, Frank

1979 Employee Relations: An International Journal

doi: 10.1108/eb054931

In March 1978 over 793,000 males classified within manual occupations were registered unemployed in Great Britain. This represented about 10.3 per cent of the number of fulltime male employees then at work in these same occupations. The 1978 New Earnings Survey showed that nearly 58 per cent of the 6.9 million men over 21 in manual occupations worked overtime, on average 10.4 hours in the survey week. From these figures one can calculate that the total number of hours of overtime worked by adult men in manual occupations exceeded 40 millions per week.

Cooper, Cary L.

1979 Employee Relations: An International Journal

doi: 10.1108/eb054932

Executives today are bombarded on all sides by the need to adapt and keep up to date with constantly changing information and work. This need is necessitated by the rapid and often violent thrust of technological change. The information explosion and dynamic changes stimulated by the knowledge revolution all take their toll of today's managers. No managerial function appears immune to these factors. Personnel, industrial relations, and training managers are faced with many new employment, training, redundancy and safety Acts, not to mention the everincreasing demand for industrial relations skills to cope with the fluctuating attitudes and aspirations of the workforce. Production, research and development, maintenance, transport and work study people are faced with tremendous technological advances and numerous regulatory procedures. The financial managers have to cope with many new and developing accounting procedures e.g. inflation accounting, in addition to the many changes in taxation, company law and the everincreasing fluctuation in the monetary markets.

Chadwick, David

1979 Employee Relations: An International Journal

doi: 10.1108/eb054933

Those who are concerned with introducing employee participation into British industry deserve our heartfelt sympathy. It must be like trying to photograph a group of fiveyearold children whilst crossing a minefieldthe subject will never sit still and one toe in the wrong place will cause an explosion. Prospects of legislation on industrial democracy seem to come and go trade union and employers attitudes appear to fluctuate new vogues are introduced and vanish without trace. And if this were not enough, everyone seems to be ready to give advicemuch of it contradictory. The scene is tangled and confused.

Henry, Stuart

1979 Employee Relations: An International Journal

doi: 10.1108/eb054934

In recent months newspapers have been full of stories about the hidden, black or cash economy. Fiddlers on the tubes told how London Transport ticket barrier staff were allegedly pocketing nearly 5.5 million they collect in excess fares every year. Moonlighters in Fleet Street described the clampdown by tax inspectors on parttime casual workers who collect undeclared wages from more than one newspaper office by signing fictitious names, such as Mickey Mouse. Sir William Pile, Chairman of the Board of Inland Revenue was reported by The Guardian as estimating that the black economy of tax avoidance and moonlighting amounted to 7.5 per cent of the entire economy at around 11 billions.

Haffner, Denis

1979 Employee Relations: An International Journal

doi: 10.1108/eb054935

In this article I am going to be presumptuous and argue that a small college has and will continue to play a crucial role in employee relations. Any response to this article could be the basis of a continuing dialogue within this journal. Just as Employee Relations seeks to examine the changing content and meaning of work and the ways in which rewards and conditions are negotiated and settled, so does a large part of the work done at Ruskin College.