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  • 1
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    New management practices in a multinational corporation: the restructuring of worker representation and rights? (1994)
    Oxford, UK : Blackwell Publishing Ltd
    Industrial relations journal 25 (1994), S. 0 
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    ISSN: 1468-2338
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Economics
    Notes: This article addresses the strategy of a multinational corporation's approach to implement new management practices within its European operating units. It explores how certain elements of an industrial relations system can facilitate the development of these practices. It argues that a foundation for labour may be being constructed which can condition eventual outcomes.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2338.1994.tb00696.x
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    Fads, Techniques and Control: The Competing Agendas of TPM and TECEX at the Royal Mail (UK) (2000)
    Oxford, UK and Boston, USA : Blackwell Publishers Ltd.
    Journal of management studies 37 (2000), S. 0 
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    ISSN: 1467-6486
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Economics
    Notes: The paper offers empirical insight into how traditional thinking can continue to dominate contemporary change initiatives, and suggests that the propensity to repackage and sell ‘old’ management theory as new techniques reflects the persistence of fundamental, insoluble dilemmas in the nature of organizing. Empirical evidence is drawn from a detailed qualitative study of two case study sites at the Royal Mail, the UK postal service. The analysis shows how the two different change initiatives of Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) and Technical Centres of Excellence (TECEX) are in competition through their methods and discourse, and how this reflects underlying and competing differences in ideologies of management. It vividly demonstrates how contemporary management thinking can involve repackaging old ideas in new rhetoric and a tendency for faddism. In organizations such as Royal Mail the consequence is that far from proving to be the solution to organizational problems, the techniques perpetuate a traditional management dualism in strategies of labour management between control and autonomy.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-6486.00191
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    Organisational Change and the Tensions of Decentralisation: the Case of Royal Mail (1994)
    Oxford, UK : Blackwell Publishing Ltd
    Human resource management journal 5 (1994), S. 0 
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    ISSN: 1748-8583
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Economics
    Notes: Miguel Martinez Lucio and Mike Noon, who are Lecturers in Industrial Relations and Organisational Behaviour respectively at the Cardiff Business School, draw on a case study of Royal Mail to explore the reasons for decentralisation and the issues this poses for managers and employees. They argue that the restructuring of Royal Mail was the result of three different imperatives for change: market, technological and political – pressurising managers to decentralise the formal structures of management-trade union relations. Decentralisation of these structures, however, has been far from a straightforward process: it has led to considerable tensions in the management of industrial relations, created scope for the development of new workplace industrial relations institutions and agendas, and given rise to a constant process of management reform.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-8583.1994.tb00367.x
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    THE POLITICS AND COMPLEXITY OF TRADE UNION RESPONSES TO NEW MANAGEMENT PRACTICES (1992)
    Oxford, UK : Blackwell Publishing Ltd
    Human resource management journal 2 (1992), S. 0 
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    ISSN: 1748-8583
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Economics
    Notes: Miguel Martinez Lucio and Syd Weston, who are Lecturers in Human Resource Management at the Cardiff Business School, emphasise that, in seeking to understand trade union responses to HRM and new management practices, it is important to take into account their traditions and internal decision-making processes as well as external influences. They suggest, in particular, that it is possible to identify three main ‘clusters’ of opinion which have emerged in recent years and which go to make up the complex position of the TUC. They go on to argue that, as unions learn more about HRM and new management practices, they will tend to exert a more significant influence on the form and implementation of such initiatives.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-8583.1992.tb00267.x
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    The networked union? The internet as a challenge to trade union identity and roles (2005)
    Bradford : Emerald
    Critical perspectives on international business 1 (2005), S. 137-154 
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    ISSN: 1742-2043
    Source: Emerald Fulltext Archive Database 1994-2005
    Topics: Economics
    Notes: Purpose - The article aims to look at the development of the internet in terms of its implications for the labour movement and its international activities. Design/methodology/approach - The paper brings together conclusions and findings based on the previous work of the two individual authors who have studied the role of the internet from a national and international perspective, using a range of methodologies. Findings - The impact of the internet in terms of facilitating communication and renewal strategies has been highly significant. However, the authors argue that such developments are also mediated by trade union structures and organisational traditions/ideologies at the national level where there is still a considerable degree of variety. It also looks and focuses on some of the challenges of international labour co-ordination through the use of the internet, noting some of the difficulties faced by trade unionists. The paper therefore brings together insights into the way organisations such as trade unions interact with such developments both at the national and international level. Originality/value - The article emphasises the need to develop a political and sociological understanding of the internet within industrial relations and in terms of future research.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/17422040510595645
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    Assessing the principles of partnership: Workplace trade union representatives' attitudes and experiences (2002)
    Bradford : Emerald
    Employee relations 24 (2002), S. 305-320 
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    ISSN: 0142-5455
    Source: Emerald Fulltext Archive Database 1994-2005
    Topics: Economics
    Notes: The article examines the attitudes and experiences of senior workplace trade union representatives, from the Manufacturing, Science and Finance Union, against the TUC's six principles of partnership. The findings suggest some acceptance of the ideological aspects of partnership, such as the need to move away from adversarial cultures and understand the impact of market imperatives and pressures on the firm. The results reveal little support, however, for improvements in job security, transparency and involvement and the quality of working life (the TUC's so-called "acid test" of partnership). Against a backdrop of job insecurity and widespread work intensification, the article argues that the material and organisational basis to partnership appears to be undermining various attitudinal changes within the thinking of trade union representatives regarding their roles and relations at work.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/01425450210428462
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    Assessing partnership: the prospects for, and challenges of, modernisation (2002)
    Bradford : Emerald
    Employee relations 24 (2002), S. 252-261 
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    ISSN: 0142-5455
    Source: Emerald Fulltext Archive Database 1994-2005
    Topics: Economics
    Notes: This paper has a dual role. First, it provides an overview of partnership, with particular reference to the present Labour Government and the shaping of its relations with the institutions of capital and business representation. Second, it provides an introduction to the special issue on "'Assessing partnership: the prospects for, and challenges of, modernisation" and briefly outlines the papers included in it.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/01425450210428426
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    In and beyond European works councils: Limits and possibilities for trade union influence (1998)
    Bradford : Emerald
    Employee relations 20 (1998), S. 551-564 
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    ISSN: 0142-5455
    Source: Emerald Fulltext Archive Database 1994-2005
    Topics: Economics
    Notes: Reviews the competing perspectives given to the developments of European works councils (EWCs). In doing this an evaluation is given regarding the current state of the European labour movement and its ability to condition and influence contemporary practices of multinational corporations in an era of disturbances to existing national industrial relations regimes. In particular, the article addresses the concerns raised by commentators who adopt the position that EWCs may undermine traditional forms of joint regulation and, consequently, reinforce the development of narrow/parochial enterprise-based unionism. The paper questions this position by offering an alternative interpretation regarding the evolution and influence that EWCs can have on the management of MNCs. It highlights how management information systems, organisational structures and power relations are vulnerable to employee collaborative activities across national boundaries.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/01425459810247305
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    Constructing the Market: Commercialization and Privatization in the Royal Mail (1997)
    Oxford, UK and Boston, USA : Blackwell Publishers Ltd
    Public administration 75 (1997), S. 0 
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    ISSN: 1467-9299
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Political Science , Economics
    Notes: The public sector in the UK has become the object of constant reform and change as part of the government’s project to increase the remit of the private sector and the role of markets. There is much debate about the effect such a move to market relations has on public services. There is increasing concern with the way market–based reforms are linked to a new pattern of organizational structure and strategy that negates and/or opposes the traditional political processes associated with the public sector. This article focuses on the case of the Royal Mail to explore how such a transformation is both complex and contested. It reveals how ‘the market’ within the public sector is to a large extent politically constructed, and that the public–private dichotomy over–simplifies what is a complex process of negotiating meaning, forming alliances, lobbying for support, handling conflict and exerting influence. It demonstrates how various readings of ‘the market’ emerge, and that any solutions of how to become more commercial can be the result of political machinations. The implications of this analysis go beyond Royal Mail and can be generalized across the public sector.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-9299.00060
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    Negotiating quality the case of TQM in Royal Mail (1995)
    Bradford : Emerald
    Employee relations 17 (1995), S. 87-98 
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    ISSN: 0142-5455
    Source: Emerald Fulltext Archive Database 1994-2005
    Topics: Economics
    Notes: Examines how a TQM programme has been implemented within thecontext of Royal Mail. Demonstrates that within the organization TQM hasbeen "negotiated" around four main factors: the complexitiesof utilizing the discourse of the customer; the organization's marketdominance in the collection and delivery of door-to-door mail; itsindustrial relations; and the formal and central adoption of TQM withina public sector context.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/01425459510086929
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