Nissan: Recent Evolution of Industrial Relations and Work Organisation

1999 ◽  
pp. 54-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ichiro Saga ◽  
Masanori Hanada
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Relations ◽  
Work Organisation

Leadership training and delivery prospects of team leaders in Communication Network Support Services Limited, Ilorin

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdulahi G. Olatunji ◽  
Ademola Ojelabi ◽  
Abdulwaheed A. Isiaq ◽  
Issah Moshood ◽  
Amali S. Ewaoda
Keyword(s):  
Leadership Training ◽  
Survey Design ◽  
Industrial Relations ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Simple Random Sampling ◽  
Work Organisation ◽  
Team Leaders ◽  
Chi Square ◽  
Statistical Tool ◽  
Network Support

Training and development of staff has been one of the key focuses of every human resources department of any formal work organisation. This is as a result of the realisation that training is an important determinant of people’s behaviour as well as their general delivery ability at work. In realisation of this, intellectuals and researchers in industrial relations generally have put vested interest in the phenomena of training and work delivery ability. However, despite the enormous volume of literatures available in this regard, very few among them have specifically examined the importance of leadership training as a possible determinant of work delivery. Thus, this study is an attempt to cover this gap. In order to achieve this objective, survey design was used as the research design for the study. A questionnaire was used to elicit information from the respondents, while simple random sampling technique was used to select the study sample. Frequency distribution and percentage were used as descriptive tools, while chi-square was used as an inferential statistical tool in the study. The study found out that leadership training has a significant relationship with the identified work delivery elements measured in the study. The study concluded that leadership training has a significant effect on delivery ability of team leaders and thus recommended that leadership training should be given utmost priority in work organisations so that work delivery prospects of the employees could be realised.

The concept of ‘flexicurity’: a new approach to regulating employment and labour markets

2004 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 166-186 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ton Wilthagen ◽  
Frank Tros
Keyword(s):  
Trade Unions ◽  
Industrial Relations ◽  
Labour Markets ◽  
Vulnerable Groups ◽  
Work Organisation ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
New Approach ◽  
The One ◽  
National Governments

This article deals with the new policy concept of ‘flexicurity’ in view of the emerging flexibility-security nexus currently faced by the European Union, national governments, sectors of industry, individual companies and workers. On the one hand there is a strong demand to make labour markets, employment and work organisation more flexible. At same time, an equally strong demand exists for providing security to employees – especially vulnerable groups – and for preserving social cohesion in our societies. Policy-makers, legislators, trade unions and employers’ organisations have a strong need for new theory-inspired policy models and concepts that promise to reconcile these goals of enhancing both flexibility and security that at first sight seem incompatible. This article discusses the origins, conditions and potential of ‘flexicurity’ as policy or strategy at various levels of industrial relations. It also outlines a research agenda.

scholarly journals Labour standards application in the informal economy of Ghana: The patterns and pressures

2013 ◽  
Vol 58 (196) ◽  
pp. 157-175 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angela Akorsu
Keyword(s):  
Informal Economy ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Industrial Relations ◽  
Work Organisation ◽  
Market Regulation ◽  
Employment Relations ◽  
The Social ◽  
Labour Market Regulation ◽  
Labour Standards ◽  
Labour Legislation

In spite of the rapid growth and importance of informal employment in Ghana, few studies have investigated the extent of coverage of labour standards application, as a form of labour market regulation. This paper investigates the extent of labour standards application in shaping the employment relations and conditions within the informal economy. The study focuses on 30 manufacturing firms in Ghana?s informal economy. Data were obtained through interviews with 43 entrepreneurs and their workers, as well as with key informants from the social partners of industrial relations. The study shows that labour standards are generally not applied among informal economy operators due to factors such as a lack of coverage of the existing labour legislation, ineffective enforcement, ignorance, peculiarities of work organisation, and the dynamics of the apprenticeship system. It is therefore concluded that informal economy workers, who constitute the majority of the workforce in Ghana, lack social protection and must be targeted for intervention.

The Workforce of the Future: Implications for Industrial Relations, Education and Training

1994 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 104-116 ◽  
Author(s):  
Russell D. Lansbury
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Relations ◽  
Occupational Status ◽  
High Standard ◽  
First Century ◽  
Work Organisation ◽  
Working Lives ◽  
The Future ◽  
New Forms Of Work ◽  
And Training

This paper examines new forms of work organisation which may emerge in the coming decade, as the distinction between white and blue collar work fades and occupational status is defined more in terms of skills and knowledge. Demarcation barriers between skilled and unskilled work, trades and professions will become less relevant as multiskilling and inter-changeability of personnel becomes a requirement in most organisations. The proportion of self employed in the workforce will also increase and most people will work on contracts rather than be guaranteed long-term employment with one organisation. Few people will pursue the same occupation throughout their working lives. Retraining will become a constant requirement to ensure that skills remain relevant. While the latest technologies will continue to be used in order to maintain a high standard of living, there will be pressures on industry and governments to retain some labour intensive forms of work in order to contain levels of unemployment. Three possible scenarios are presented for the future of work in the twenty-first century.

Book Reviews: Sociology: The State of the Art, A Treatise on Social Theory, Volume 1: The Methodology of Social Theory, Contemporary Political Philosophy: Radical Studies, Margaret Mead and Samoa: The Making and Unmaking of an Anthropological Myth, Capital and Politics, Supremacy and Subordination of Labour; The Hierarchy of Work in the Early Labour Movement, The Development of the Labour Process in Capitalist Societies; A Comparative Study of the Transformation of Work Organisation in Britain, Japan and the USA, Blue-Collar Workers and Politics: A French Paradox, Contemporary French Political Parties, The Family and Industrial Society, White-Collar Work, Industrial Relations in Britain, Women in Control: Dilemmas of a Workers Co-Operative, An Economic History of Women in America, Racial and Ethnic Competition, Labour and Racism, Racism and Migrant Labour, Contemporary Education Policy, Solidarity: The Analysis of a Social Movement: Poland 1980–1981, The Rites of Rulers, Political Anatomy of the Body; Medical Knowledge in Britain in the Twentieth Century, Class, Sports, and Social Development, Cambridge College of Arts and Technology Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word, From Author to Reader

1984 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 390-391
Author(s):  
Duncan Mitchell ◽  
David Jary ◽  
Kenneth Thompson ◽  
Keith Tribe ◽  
Michael Winter ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Theory ◽  
Economic History ◽  
Industrial Relations ◽  
Medical Knowledge ◽  
The Body ◽  
Industrial Society ◽  
Work Organisation ◽  
Blue Collar Workers ◽  
Early Labour ◽  
The Usa

Telework: from distance working to new forms of flexible work organisation

2001 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 244-257 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gérard Valenduc ◽  
Patricia Vendramin
Keyword(s):  
Single Point ◽  
Industrial Relations ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Economic Research ◽  
Work Organisation ◽  
Flexible Work ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Distance Working

The purpose of this paper is to analyse some recent developments in tele working, considered as flexible work forms linked to the widespread use of information and communication technology (ICT). First of all we draw an overview of emerging and declining forms of telework, referring to recent results of an international survey carried out for the European Commission. This overview highlights that the various teleworking practices can no longer be analysed from the single point of view of ‘working at a distance'. The second section analyses them in a more general framework: the expansion of flexible work organisation and ‘atypical’ work forms, which characterise employment in the information society. These aspects will be commented on in the light of some results of a European socio-economic research project (FLEXCOT), allowing us to pinpoint the role of ICT in these trends. In conclusion, the paper addresses some challenges for industrial relations and collective bargaining.

Wage theft, underpayment and unpaid work in marketised social care

2018 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 80-96 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fiona Macdonald ◽  
Eleanor Bentham ◽  
Jenny Malone
Keyword(s):  
Social Care ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Industrial Relations ◽  
Community Support ◽  
Safety Net ◽  
Unpaid Work ◽  
Work Organisation ◽  
Wage Theft ◽  
Novel Approach

Marketised models of social care provision in Australia are placing pressures on service providers and driving changes in work organisation and employer practices, with potential to degrade social care jobs. While international experience of marketised social care has demonstrated the vulnerability of social care workers to wage theft and other violations of employment laws, Australia’s relatively strong industrial relations safety net might be expected to be better able to protect these low-paid workers. Nevertheless, there is emerging evidence of negative impacts on the pay and entitlements of frontline workers in the expanding community support and homecare workforce. This study investigates the paid and unpaid work time of disability support workers under Australia’s new National Disability Insurance Scheme. The research takes a novel approach combining analysis of working day diaries and qualitative interviews with employees to expose how jobs are being fragmented and work is being organised into periods of paid and unpaid time, leaving employees paid below their minimum entitlement. The article highlights the role of social care policy along with inadequate employment regulation. JEL Codes: J390, J81, J88

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