Financial Services Partnerships: Labor-Management Dynamics [Hardcover]

The purpose of this book is to evaluate the debate on partnership, using original research data. Samuel provides a novel categorisation with which to synthesise and clarify a highly diverse literature on labour-management partnership, thus helping to refine the contemporary partnership debate. Secondly, he clarifies the circumstances under which effective labour-management partnership is possible, while simultaneously elaborating why the achievement of mutual gains is highly improbable in a liberal-market context. Thirdly, the book presents an integrated analysis of the interplay between macro-, meso- (industry) and micro-level factors. Fourthly, the research design enables the study to go beyond the case studies to make defendable empirical generalizations at the level of the industry. Finally, it advances a theoretical explanation of labour-management partnerships in liberal market economies by bridging two opposing neo-institutional positions in the social sciences.

1. Introduction: Themes and Issues  2. Multiple-methods, One Sector, Four Cases and One Union  3. Structural Origins  4. Management and Workplace Union Motives  5. Form  6. Employer Outcomes  7. Union and Worker Outcomes  8. Conclusion: The Dynamics of Partnership

This book evaluates the debate on partnership, using original research. Samuel redefines the debate providing a new categorisation with which to synthesize and clarify a highly diverse literature on labour-management partnership.

Peter Samuel was a HRM Lecturer at Nottingham University Business School. He has made numerous contributions to international conferences. He earned his PhD in Industrial Relations at Cardiff Business School. He nolCG