Industrial relations: will they survive the Labour Relations Act 1987?

International Labour Organisation Act/emp Publications Industrial Relations and Globalization: Challenges for Employers and Their Organizations

1. Executive Summary 2. Introduction 3. Industrial Relations (IR) in the Global Context (a) IR-a definition (b) IR and HRM (c) Liberalization, globalization and IR (i) Overview (ii) The relevance of globalization to industrial relations-a summary (iii) The role of multinational corporations (MNC's) (iv) Information technology and IR (v) The impact of other trends (d) The changing nature of IR-a...

Industrial Relations Centre

Teaching Comparative Industrial Relations

Introduction Mark Bray Comparative research is vital to the development of all social science disciplines. Indeed, many scholars have argued that the making of comparisons is the only method by which explanations of social behaviour and the development of theory occur. For example, the author of one comparative study of economic development in 'settler' societies argued: Only one analytical met...

Industrial Relations Research Association

The package of increases in defined-contribution pension plan contribution limits that Congress enacted in 2001 could have benefited at most 8 percent of plan participants and 3 percent of all workers. High earners were potentially more likely to benefit than low earners, and potential beneficiaries generally had higher earnings than other participants. The increase in the percentage limit on c...

The Crisis of Labour Relations in Germany

It is generally agreed amongst academic commentators that the combined pressures of increased international product market competition, market deregulation and unification have severely strained the German ‘model’ of industrial relations (e.g. Goodhart, 1994; Carlin and Soskice, 1997; Gall, 1997; Streeck, 1997). Employers’ fear of the relative decline of German industrial competitiveness have p...