Employee Relations: An International Journal

Russell, Anthony

1984 Employee Relations: An International Journal

doi: 10.1108/eb055037

Using the methods of participant observation and interviews, the author has drawn up a list of management techniques that are employed for the control of young female workers. He concludes that there is insufficient evidence to support the need for such controls and feels that managements have absorbed stereotyped images of young people as irresponsible and operate the controls regardless.

Leopold, John W.; Beaumont, P.B.

1984 Employee Relations: An International Journal

doi: 10.1108/eb055038

The authors discuss the typology of personnel officers in the National Health Service. On the basis of a survey of Scottish Health Boards they conclude that NHS personnel officers are insiders rather than outsiders bringing their specialist skills from elsewhere.

Hamill, J.

1984 Employee Relations: An International Journal

doi: 10.1108/eb055039

The growth in the number of multinational companies in the UK in 1980 employing 16 per cent of all people in manufacturing industry raises a number of industrial relations issues such as where are the decisions regarding labour issues made The author discusses the implications with regard to trade unions and industrial relations.

Gunnigle, Patrick; Brady, Therese

1984 Employee Relations: An International Journal

doi: 10.1108/eb055040

The common belief is that institutionalised industrial relations has little relevance for the smaller organisation. This belief is consequent on the ideas that problems in industrial relations occur where communications are poor and that good communications are an integral feature of the small firm. The authors base their counterargument on a study which examined industrial relations practices in small firms.

Allen, P.T.

1984 Employee Relations: An International Journal

doi: 10.1108/eb055041

This article describes the most recent research into the nature and extent of the link between relations, as assessed by the measure of InterGroups Understanding IGU and relations as revealed by industrial action. The IGU permits comparison of firms through measurement of the characteristic atmosphere independently of specific sets of attitudes on either side. By trying to change the opposition's view of one's own attitudes and vice versa it's possible to see that positive changes in behaviour are likely to be reflected over time.