Synopses & Reviews
The employment relationship lies at the heart of work organisations. This text will explore the way that this relationship, and the contexts in which it occurs, have changed over the recent period, and the implications of those changes. This book features expert contributors from organisational sociology, industrial relations and HRM.
Synopsis
Reassessing the Employment Relationship is an edited volume written by leading academics at Cardiff Business School. Reflecting on the employment relationship as one of the central institutions of advanced capitalist economies, it provides an extensive survey of the changing world of work. The book offers a multi-disciplinary analysis of the contemporary workplace, and focuses on the key influences that are shaping the employment relationship - globalization, financialization, regulation and the search for ethical standards in human resource management. There is insightful and authoritative treatment of some of the main developments in the employment relationship, such as the rise of knowledge and customer service work, increasing income inequality, new forms of management control over work, the spread of non-union industrial relations and the rise to prominence of work-life integration.
Reassessing the Employment Relationship provides a critical yet accessible look at the changing employment relationship, and is an indispensible aid to students studying Industrial Relations, Human Resource Management, Organizational Studies, and Business Ethics.
PAUL BLYTON is Professor of Industrial Relations and Industrial Sociology at Cardiff University, UK.
EDMUND HEERY is Professor of Employment Relations at Cardiff University, UK.
PETER TURNBULL is Professor of Human Resource Management and Labour Relations at Cardiff University, UK.
About the Author
PAUL BLYTON is Professor of Industrial Relations and Industrial Sociology at the University of Cardiff, UK.
EDMUND HEERY is Professor of Employment Relations at the University of Cardiff, UK.
PETER TURNBULL is Professor of Human Resource Management and Labour Relations at the University of Cardiff, UK.
Table of Contents
Introduction; P.Blyton, E.Heery & P.Turnbull
The Critical Future of HRM Research; R.Delbridge
Personnel Economics and the Employment Relationship; R.McNabb & K.Whitfield
New Forms of Control in Contemporary Work Organizations; M.Ree
Reassessing Identities in and of Organizations; R.Thomas & A.Davies
Reassessing Markets and the Employment Relationship; M.Hauptmeier
Reassessing Governance and the Employment Relationship; D.Nash
Reassessing Employment Law; E.Heery & D.Nash
Bringing Employment Cack In: a Critique of Current Theorising of Inter-organizational Relations; H.Willmott
Customer Service and Customer Service Work; E.Ogbonna
Work and Non-Work Life: an Assessment; P.Blyton
Assessing Voice; E.Heery
Managing Knowledge Work: Towards a Critical Understanding; T.Edwards
The Future of Equality Agendas: the Problems of Intersectionality in Theory and Practice; D.Foster & L.Williams
The Employment Relationship in the Public Sector: Does it Retain its Distinctiveness?; J.Gould-Williams
Ask Not What HRM Can Do for Performance but What HRM Did to Performance; S.Sen-Gupta & K.Whitfield
Wages and the Employment Relationship - Low Pay, High Pay and Occupational Pay; V.Wass & P.Turnbull
Reassessing Varieties of Capitalism: the Changing Employment Relationship in Germany and Japan; H.Drew & J.Morris
Globalization and Employment Relations; J.Jenkins & P.Turnbull
Ethics, Employment and Poverty in the Global Market Place; M.Marinetto & E.Heery