Browsing Management (Scholarly Articles) by Title
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Pension provision by small employers in Ireland: an analysis of Personal Retirement Savings Account (PRSA) using bounded rationality theory
(Sciendo De Gruyter, 2017-12-29)This paper applies a model of bounded rationality to study small employer pension provision decision-making in Ireland. PRSA pension products were intended to provide inexpensive, flexible pension options, particularly ... -
Post-privatised shop steward organisation and union renewal
(Industrial Relations Journal, 1998)Using an ethnographic case study approach this article provides empirical evidence concerning the response of local union stewards to managerial-led change during and after the process of privatisation. Evidence supports ... -
Power and politics in public inquiries: Bloody Sunday 1972
(Routledge, 2021-03-16)What are the dominant framings by which public inquiries understand and analyze power dynamics in the events they examine? We draw on unique data from the Saville Inquiry into the killing of 13 people by British soldiers ... -
Power and the construction of independence in ICTD organizations
(Taylor & Francis, 2013-07-04)How do powerful vested interests continue to influence ICT for development (ICTD) projects? In this paper, instead of adopting a macro-level analysis, I take an in-depth, ethnographic approach to focus on work practices ... -
The psychological contract: a critical review
(International Journal of Management Reviews, 2006)Literature on the psychological contract has blossomed progressively over the last ten years to the extent that it is now firmly located within the lexicon of the Human Resource Management (HRM) discipline. Yet as this ... -
Putting the system back into training and firm performance research: A review and research agenda
(Wiley, 2021-03-12)Research investigating training and firm performance is currently at an inflection point; capable of recognising previous achievements but also having a focus on the future. Based on our review of 207 quantitative papers ... -
Re-conceptualising employee silence: problems and prognosis
(Work Employment and Society, 2011)A growing literature has emerged on employee silence, located within the field of organisational behaviour. Scholars have investigated when and how employees articulate voice and when and how they will opt for silence. ... -
Re-conceptualising voice in the non-union workplace
(International Journal of Human Resource Management, 2007)In this paper we present a conceptual analysis of the literature and research surrounding voice in the non-union workplace. The paper begins with a definitional discussion of non-unionism ¿ what it is and what it is not, ... -
Realism or Idealism? Corporate social responsibility and the employee stakeholder in the global fast-food Industry
(2005)The more extreme forms of employee exploitation usually found in third world or developing countries, often receives a lot of media attention. Much less is said about the exploitation of employees in the industrialised ... -
Regional Aspects of Environmental Regulation: The Case of the Irish Pharmaceutical Sector
(Liffey Press, 2003)This chapter develops a broader than conventional understanding of regional policy that takes into consideration the functionally and sectorally specific effects of local institutions and policies. It does this through an ... -
The roles and functions of shop stewards in workplace partnership: evidence from the Republic of Ireland
(Employee Relations, 2010)Purpose: This article examines the roles and influence of shop stewards under workplace partnership regimes in five case study firms in the Republic of Ireland. It assess the dynamics and potential longevity of partnership ... -
(Still) Up to No Good: Reconfiguring Worker Resistance and Misbehaviour in an Increasingly Unorganized World
(2012)The way industrial conflict and worker resistance have been analyzed has undergone significant transformation over the past few decades. While researchers have observed the quantitative decline of traditional forms of ... -
Strategic Talent Management: A review and research agenda
(Elsevier, 2009)Despite a significant degree of academic and practitioner interest the topic of talent management remains underdeveloped. A key limitation is the fact that talent management lacks a consistent definition and clear conceptual ... -
Talent management in public science funding organizations: institutional logics, paradoxical tensions and HR actor responses
(Taylor and Francis, 2022-10-26)Drawing on a study of three public science funding organizations in Ireland, Finland and New Zealand, we investigate the implementation of talent management (TM) through the lens of institutional complexity and paradox ... -
Thatcherism delayed? The Irish crisis and the paradox of social partnership
(Industrial Relations Journal, 2010)This article reviews the state of Irish industrial relations in light of the current economic crisis. It argues that social partnership, paradoxically, was rooted in the continuation of a tradition of permissive voluntarism ... -
Thinking critically about affect in organization studies: Why it matters
(SAGE Publications, 2017-01-06)Affect holds the promise of destabilizing and unsettling us, as organizational subjects, into new states of being. It can shed light on many aspects of work and organization, with implications both within and beyond ... -
Trade Unions and Bargaining For Skills
(Employee Relations Journal, 1998-03)This article seeks to locate the role of trade unions in bargaining for vocational, education and training (VET) within the context of workplace industrial relations. Drawing on the experiences and findings of a TUC project ... -
Training and organisational performance: A meta-analysis of temporal, institutional, and organisational context moderators
(Wiley, 2020-02-03)Drawing on systems theory, we conducted a moderated meta-analysis of the training and organisational performance relationship using 119 primary studies. We examined the moderating effects of quality versus quantity of ... -
Understanding pension communications at the organizational level: insights from bounded rationality theory & implications for HRM
(Elsevier, 2016-08-10)This paper applies concepts from bounded rationality theory to develop an integrative model to understand how pension scheme structure and pension scheme communication impact pension participation and contribution rates ... -
Unitarism and employer resistance to trade unionism
(2012)Active employer resistance to trade union recognition is often explained through the rubric of the unitary ideology. Yet, little attention has been devoted to an examination of unitarism as an explanatory construct for ...