Author: G. E. SeminarioPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Shopfloor Labour Relations in the Commercial Aviation Industry
Author: G. E. SeminarioDo Industrial Relations Affect Plant Performance?
Author: Morris M. KleinerPublisher:
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Category : Aircraft industry
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
This study analyzes the impact of major industrial relations variables on productivity within a plant that assembles large commercial aircraft. The analysis combines the deep firm- specific knowledge of management and labor typical of the best of traditional industrial relations with formal statistical tests. We use a before and after research design over an 18-year period with monthly data, as well as information from the participants in the industrial relations events. Our approach is unusual in showing that by focusing only on managerial factors or the learning curve, and omitting factors such as union leadership and related labor relations events, estimates may mis-specify impacts on firm performance. Strikes, slowdowns, and tough union leaders influenced the productivity of this plant by both large percentages and absolute dollar amounts during the period they were occurring. In contrast with much of the firm performance literature, we find small initial productivity impacts of movements from traditional adversarial management, which is the norm in this industry, to total quality management (TQM) and back again. How and why TQM is adopted may be just as important as whether it is adopted. Finally, simulations from a counterfactual case show that major industrial relations events like strikes, slowdowns, and the TQM program did not have long term productivity effects, and that the firm we studied returned to pre-event levels of production within one to four months
Industrial Relations, Trade Unions, and Labour Legislation:
Author: SINHAPublisher: Pearson Education India
ISBN: 9332515190
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 653
Book Description
The second edition of Industrial Relations, Trade Unions, and Labour Legislation is an up-to-date interactive text, primarily related to issues in India. The book does, however, incorporate developments and practices in other countries, particularly UK and USA. Primarily designed for the students of management, economics, labour and social welfare, social work, commerce and similar disciplines this book will also be of interest to professionals in the field of labour relations and management.
Essays on Civil-military Relations, Military-industrial Relations, Weapon Procurement, and International Relations
Author: Glen SegellPublisher: Glen Segell Publishers
ISBN: 1901414043
Category : Armed Forces
Languages : en
Pages : 393
Book Description
State Capitalism and Working-class Radicalism in the French Aircraft Industry
Author: Herrick ChapmanPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520071254
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
"Using the example of the aircraft industry, which takes him like an arrow to the heart of many of the key conflicts in French life between 1936 and 1948, Herrick Chapman has written a penetrating and exceptionally well documented account of the way that France developed her present style of industrial relations, in which the state plays such a central role. No book I know so successfully integrates the history of aviation . . . with the political and social history of France. Both thorough and thoughtful, it is an impressive achievement."--Robert Wohl, University of California, Los Angeles "An unusual, innovative book based on impressive research that throws new light in a major way on twentieth-century French politics and society . . . one of the most interesting and original monographs in modern French history in a long time."--Robert O. Paxton, Columbia University "This is a breakthrough of considerable importance. [Chapman] will become the leading North American, perhaps even English-speaking, historian of contemporary France."--George Ross, Brandeis University
Shop Floor Bargaining and the State
Author: Steven TollidayPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521136952
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
First published in 1985, this multi-author volume discusses the contentious issue of the relationship between shop floor bargaining and the state. Previous studies of this area tended to focus on macro-economic concerns and labour legislation, avoiding a more empirical approach that would draw out specific examples of the relationship. The seven essays in this text attempt to redress the balance through rigorous analysis of historically particular circumstances and events. In doing so, they show that the state is not always the defender of managerial centralisation and give examples of government intervention to the benefit of shop floor autonomy. This highly informative volume draws attention to the contradictory and ambiguous nature of industrial relations, and will be of value to anyone with an interest in politics and economics.
Industrial Relations in the California Aircraft Industry
Author: Arthur Potter AllenPublisher:
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Category : Aerospace industries
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Social and Labour Problems in Civil Aviation
Author: International Labour OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aeronautics, Commercial
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Conference paper on labour relations problems related to the rapid expansion of air transport operations - includes a general survey of developments in civil aviation and air traffic control, and covers working conditions of the main categories of personnel, legal liability, etc., and possible areas for ILO action. References and statistical tables. Conference held in Geneva 1974 October 3 to 10.
Voices from the Shopfloor
Author: Anne Marie GreenePublisher: Ashgate Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Uses ethnographic research methods for the study of industrial relations in two lock manufacturing companies in England and within the developing world context.
A Business and Labour History of Britain
Author: M. RichardsonPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230337007
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
By bringing together and critically engaging with accounts of certain themes in business and labour history, and utilizing original research, this book aims to widen understanding of industrial society and provide a background to further study and research in the area management and labour relations history.