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Labour Management (labour + management)

Distribution by Scientific Domains

Business, Economics, Finance and Accounting	75%

Selected Abstracts

Regulating labour management in small firms

HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT JOURNAL, Issue 3 2002
Susan Marlow
There is a relative paucity of evidence on the management of labour in smaller firms. Research that has been undertaken, while recognising the heterogeneity of the sector, does note the prevalence of informality regarding employee relations. Such informality could be challenged by the increasing regulation of the employment relationship following the election of successive Labour governments since 1997. To illuminate this discussion further, evidence drawn from a study of employment regulation is offered. A number of smaller firm owners and their employees were interviewed to ascertain their views on the impact of regulation on the employment relationship. Owners were largely resistant to it but felt they could accommodate changes with relatively little disruption to their existing approach to labour management. Meanwhile, most employees felt the effect of regulation would be muted due to their position as smaller firm labour. [source]

Fads, Techniques and Control: The Competing Agendas of TPM and TECEX at the Royal Mail (UK)

JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES, Issue 4 2000
Mike Noon
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. [source]

Management of labour among women with epidural analgesia

AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF OBSTETRICS AND GYNAECOLOGY, Issue 1 2003
Christine L. Roberts
Abstract To assess current practices in the labour management of low risk primiparous women with epidural analgesia we surveyed delivery suites in New South Wales (NSW) that annually provide at least 100 epidurals to ,standard primipara'. Epidural rates among ,standard primipara' at these hospitals ranged from 14 to 85% (median 46%). Continuous epidural infusion was the most commonly used technique (63%). For ,standard primipara' with an epidural 62% of units usually augmented labour with oxytocin, 89% discontinued the epidural in second stage and 67% had policies of delayed pushing. There is wide variation in epidural availability and in labour management, perhaps reflecting the limited evidence for effective interventions to reduce any unintended effects of epidural analgesia. [source]

A cross-national study of corporate governance and employment contracts

BUSINESS ETHICS: A EUROPEAN REVIEW, Issue 3 2008
Roberto García-Castro
Corporate governance (CG) can be seen to operate through a ,double agency' relationship: one between the shareholders and corporate management, and another between the corporate management and the firm's employees. The CG and labour management of firms are closely related. A particularly productive way to study how CG affects and is affected by the employment relationship has been to compare CG across countries. The contributions of this paper to that literature are threefold. (1) An integration of aspects of the labour management literature in the CG debate. (2) Based on a sample of about 1000 firms from 31 countries, we find evidence of complementarities between the CG and the labour management of firms. Extreme cases, in general, outperform mixed cases. (3) Firm differences within countries are more important than scholars have assumed so far. We present the results of the study and implications for future research and for practice. [source]