Change in Industrial Relations

The Organization and Environment

P.B. Beaumont

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2024
• Print ISBN: 9781032844923
• eBook ISBN: 9781040121764
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Business General
• Index: Business

Change in Industrial Relations (1990) examines the industrial relations system in the UK at the end of the 1980s, after a decade of changes such as the growth of non-union firms, trade union decline, the emergence of human resource management practices, and increase in labour–management co-operation. The author describes the major features of the system and discusses the recent changes, drawing on insights from economics, organizational behaviour, and urban and regional research, as well as from the traditional literature of industrial relations. Focusing on collective bargaining, he examines the practices of the British system of industrial relations in recent years, and places the UK in a wider context by providing facts and figures for other national systems, in particular making extensive reference to developments and research in the USA.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Original Title Page
• Original Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• List of tables
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• 1 Industrial relations as a field of study
• 2 The larger environment of collective bargaining
• 3 Trade unions as organizational entities and bargaining agents
• 4 Management strategy, structures, and policies for industrial relations
• 5 The essence of collective bargaining and bargaining structure
• 6 Collective bargaining processes, conflict, and power
• 7 Collective bargaining and the interaction with the environment
• 8 The changing role of the State in the industrial-relations system
• 9 Beyond collective bargaining
• 10 Back to the future?
• Appendix
• Notes and references
• Index