Contested Past, Troubled Present, Uncertain Future
The book explores the evolution of employee voice and participation, tracing its journey from early efforts for worker control to the emergence of trade unions. It highlights the ongoing struggle between union influence and management strategies aimed at engaging employees, showcasing how these dynamics impact competitive advantage in the workplace.
Focusing on the significance of training within human resource management, this book utilizes comprehensive surveys and literature to demonstrate its value as a strategic tool. Aimed at postgraduates, academics, and researchers, it explores key insights in human resource management, industrial relations, and organizational behavior, making it a valuable resource for those studying these fields.
First published in 1989. In the decade before this book was originally published, employee share ownership and profit sharing had increased markedly as successive governments introduced fiscal legislation promoting their uses. Yet how successful had 'people's capitalism' been? The Glasgow study was a major empirical investigation into this issue and was a response to the need for an independent assessment. It discusses how attitudes to ownership had changed and how these, in turn, related to attitudes to work. It also addresses the implications of profit sharing and employee share ownership for industrial relations both for individual companies and at a national level.