dc.contributor.author | Johnstone, Stewart | |
dc.contributor.author | Ackers, Peter | |
dc.contributor.author | Wilkinson, Adrian | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-05-03T11:47:50Z | |
dc.date.available | 2017-05-03T11:47:50Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2010 | |
dc.date.modified | 2011-06-20T06:47:51Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0022-1856 | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1177/0022185609359442 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10072/35607 | |
dc.description.abstract | Though the notion of union-management partnership commands an extensive body of literature, little is known about non-union partnership arrangements. This article addresses the relatively unexplored issue of non-union partnership through a detailed case study of WebBank, a British Internet bank. Three main themes are explored. First, we seek to understand more about the meaning of - and rationale for - partnership in non-union settings. Second, we explore the operation of non-union partnership in practice. Finally, we evaluate the effectiveness of non-union partnership from the perspectives of various organizational actors. The article suggests that in judging the effectiveness of a partnership arrangement, or indeed any voice regime more generally, there is a need to re-consider the benchmarks for success, and to place them in the context of contemporary employment relations. The evidence suggests that it would be deeply unhelpful and inaccurate to dismiss a non-union partnership a priori as a 'contradiction in terms'. | |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Yes | |
dc.description.publicationstatus | Yes | |
dc.format.extent | 166817 bytes | |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.language | English | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.publisher | Sage Publications | |
dc.publisher.place | United States | |
dc.relation.ispartofstudentpublication | N | |
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom | 151 | |
dc.relation.ispartofpageto | 168 | |
dc.relation.ispartofissue | 2 | |
dc.relation.ispartofjournal | Journal of Industrial Relations | |
dc.relation.ispartofvolume | 52 | |
dc.rights.retention | Y | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearch | Applied economics | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearch | Business systems in context not elsewhere classified | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode | 3801 | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode | 350399 | |
dc.title | Better than Nothing? Is Non-union Partnership a Contradiction in Terms? | |
dc.type | Journal article | |
dc.type.description | C1 - Articles | |
dc.type.code | C - Journal Articles | |
gro.rights.copyright | © 2010 Industrial Relations Society of Australia. This is the author-manuscript version of the paper. Reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Please refer to the journal's website for access to the definitive, published version. | |
gro.date.issued | 2010 | |
gro.hasfulltext | Full Text | |
gro.griffith.author | Wilkinson, Adrian J. | |