Labour and Management Co-operation : Workplace Partnership in UK Financial Services - Stewart Johnstone

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Labour and Management Co-operation

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Workplace Partnership in UK Financial Services

By: Stewart Johnstone

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Hardcover | 20 September 2010

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256 Pages

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Employee voice and representation in many work settings are increasingly dependant on what has come to be called 'partnership', 'labor-management co-operation', or 'mutual gains'. This relatively new approach is a product of the age of Human Resource Management, and is widely seen as replacing or having the potential to replace the old trades or labor union based collective employee relations arrangements. In this insightful analysis of the partnership process in the fast moving UK financial services sector, Stewart Johnstone focuses on the processes involved, the different contexts in which events are played out, and on how we should assess the outcomes. Using an analytical framework from the US that has never before been employed in a study of UK employment relations, Dr. Johnstone provides a new way of evaluating the outcomes of a variety of partnership approaches. Overcoming the limitations of methodologies that conflate union attitudes with employee opinions, this book provides a level of understanding that transcends the stalemate of recent times in which the advocates and critics of different approaches seem to have been locked. This book will appeal to all those with an interest in the current debate about "voice and representation" that is taking place amongst those involved with HRM and employee relations in Europe, the United States, and elsewhere.

Industry Reviews

'This is an important contribution to the debate on partnership. It looks closely at the diversity of approaches and raises issues with regards to the precondition and sustainability of partnership. It is a systematic and novel engagement which is essential reading for all interested in the future of co-operation in the workplace'. Miguel Martinez Lucio, Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, UK 'Partnership has been a major theme of employment relations and human resource management over the past decade. As business seeks to restore employee trust in working for capitalism, it is likely to be a central theme of the post-credit crunch era. Stewart Johnstone's timely book combines an important critical analysis of the academic debate over partnership, with some valuable in-depth case-studies of partnership in practice. His findings are central to any discussion of contemporary employment relations'. Professor Peter Ackers, Business School, Loughborough University 'Without doubt, the methodology adopted by the author is absorbing, showing concern for detail, and with high incidence of reliability...Perhaps the most striking feature of the book is the extensively detailed data obtained by the author, which is certainly more reliable and holistic, which helps derive tenable conclusions about the outcomes of the labour management partnership...These conclusions will certainly compel unions in the short as well as long run to devise alternative structures of their working so to sustain the worker interest in the institution of trade union.' - Debi S. Saini, Vision - The Journal of Business Perspective

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