{"title":"Changing Patterns of Human Resource Management in Contemporary China: WTO Accession and Enterprise Responses","authors":"Ying Zhu, M. Warner","doi":"10.2139/SSRN.670061","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/SSRN.670061","url":null,"abstract":"This study examines the increasingly complex challenges facing human resource management (HRM) in China following the country's accession to the WTO and, consequently, the implications for further reform of government policy and enterprise-level HRM practices. The article concludes that current HR practices among enterprises vary depending on ownership, industrial sector, location and history. The direction of future changes may depend on the level of involvement from external forces as well as internal strategies adopted by Chinese enterprises to survive.","PeriodicalId":126899,"journal":{"name":"Wiley-Blackwell: Industrial Relations Journal","volume":"62 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130641018","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rhetoric, Facts and Self-Fulfilling Prophecies: Exploring Practitioners Perceptions of Progress in Implementing HRM","authors":"Raymond Caldwell","doi":"10.1111/j.1468-2338.2004.00309.x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2338.2004.00309.x","url":null,"abstract":"Although the virtues of HRM are widely espoused by its proponents, evidence of its widespread uptake by UK companies has invariably been disappointing. Why? A survey using questionnaires completed by 98 personnel and HR practitioners in a sample of 350 major UK companies was used to explore perceptions of progress in implementing HRM, and this was followed-up by interviews of 24 survey respondents. While the survey and interview evidence clearly indicate that progress towards HRM is a profoundly contradictory and unfinished process, it also raises serious questions about the ability of the HR function and role to facilitate, oversee or lead processes of implementation.","PeriodicalId":126899,"journal":{"name":"Wiley-Blackwell: Industrial Relations Journal","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125215637","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Worker Representation and Health and Safety in Small Enterprises in Europe","authors":"D. Walters","doi":"10.1111/J.1468-2338.2004.00307.X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/J.1468-2338.2004.00307.X","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this paper is to review the role that representative worker participation can play in contributing to better health and safety performance in small enterprises. The relevance of representative participation to health and safety in small enterprises is addressed and the challenges that the sector poses are discussed. Using a number of examples, including legislative approaches, trade union initiatives and joint trade union employer schemes in various countries, the paper explores some of the ways in which such challenges have been tackled.","PeriodicalId":126899,"journal":{"name":"Wiley-Blackwell: Industrial Relations Journal","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127075801","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J. Earnshaw, L. Marchington, E. Ritchie, Derek Torrington
{"title":"Neither Fish Nor Fowl? An Assessment of Teacher Capability Procedures","authors":"J. Earnshaw, L. Marchington, E. Ritchie, Derek Torrington","doi":"10.1111/J.1468-2338.2004.00305.X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/J.1468-2338.2004.00305.X","url":null,"abstract":"There has been an increasing focus on the performance of workers through appraisal, performance-related pay and performance management and this emphasis on measuring performance has extended to the public sector - more specifically, to the teaching profession. This paper uses research commissioned by the DfES to investigate the operation of capability procedures introduced to deal with the perceived problem of incompetent teachers. It revealed that the procedures suffered from a number of defects both in modus operandi and style and there was little evidence that their application resulted in either improved performance or dismissal when satisfactory performance was not achieved.","PeriodicalId":126899,"journal":{"name":"Wiley-Blackwell: Industrial Relations Journal","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128437380","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Coordinated Bargaining: A Stocktaking of its Preconditions, Practices and Performance","authors":"F. Traxler","doi":"10.1111/1468-2338.00268","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2338.00268","url":null,"abstract":"Debates on coordination and centralisation of bargaining tend to neglect conceptual questions. In particular, comparative analysis often treats coordination as a 'black box'. This makes it difficult to understand the contradictory tendencies towards both decentralisation and coordination which have prevailed across Europe. This paper provides insight into the preconditions, practices and effects of coordination, based on a crossnational comparison that mainly draws from case-study evidence from four countries which are of particular analytical relevance to the study of coordination.","PeriodicalId":126899,"journal":{"name":"Wiley-Blackwell: Industrial Relations Journal","volume":"59 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"118706030","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Decentralisation of Japan's Wage Setting System in Comparative Perspective","authors":"C. Weathers","doi":"10.1111/1468-2338.00263","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2338.00263","url":null,"abstract":"Japan's wage setting system has undergone considerable decentralisation since 1995. An overview of recent changes, framed by comparative analysis, suggests that rapid change has occurred because of the informal institutionalisation of industrial relations practices, which reflects in turn the strong enterprise consciousness of workers and unions.","PeriodicalId":126899,"journal":{"name":"Wiley-Blackwell: Industrial Relations Journal","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"118317490","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Workplace Partnership and the Displaced Activist Thesis","authors":"J. Geary, W. Roche","doi":"10.1111/1468-2338.00257","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2338.00257","url":null,"abstract":"Advocates and critics of partnership have advanced a series of theoretical arguments in respect of the potential consequences for unions working under partnership arrangements. These include centralised decision-making and the alienation of lay activists. In the case study examined here partnership involved centralised decision-making, but this did not result in serious conflicts or lead to the rejection of joint arrangements. We argue for a theoretical approach focusing on the contingencies that shape relations between union officers and lay activists under partnership.","PeriodicalId":126899,"journal":{"name":"Wiley-Blackwell: Industrial Relations Journal","volume":"54 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127102441","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"All Benchmarkers Now? Benchmarking and the 'Europeanisation' of Industrial Relations","authors":"K. Sisson, J. Arrowsmith, P. Marginson","doi":"10.1111/1468-2338.00256","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2338.00256","url":null,"abstract":"Rather than legal enactment and collective bargaining being the main engines of the 'Europeanisation' of industrial relations, benchmarking and 'soft' forms of regulation are increasingly to the fore. This article traces the origins of benchmarking from management tool to regulatory instrument, in particular analysing its functioning at the levels of the Euro-company, Euro-sector and the Community itself. Without better processes, better data and better implementation, the paper concludes, benchmarking is likely to prove no more effective a means of co-ordination than the traditional Community method.","PeriodicalId":126899,"journal":{"name":"Wiley-Blackwell: Industrial Relations Journal","volume":"98 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124775704","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}