Organizational flexibility in cross-national perspective: an introduction
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Flexibility is a common goal in management practice but its meaning is often imprecise and the ways of achieving flexibility sometimes conflict with or contradict each other. Modern capitalism needs to have flexible production systems and workers are also getting flexible contracts of employment. However, flexibility impinges on the organisational structure of companies. There has been considerable research conducted into how organisations manage to operate smoothly and continually while also incorporating change.
Publication Name: International Journal of Human Resource Management
Subject: Human resources and labor relations
ISSN: 0958-5192
Year: 1998
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Industrial relations and the management of flexibility: factors shaping developments in Spain and the United Kingdom
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Issues of workforce flexibility must be examined within existing institutional and national regulatory frameworks in order to avoid over-generalizing and oversimplifying the debate. Different types of businesses in the United Kingdom and Spain are examined to highlight the importance of different factors such as the response of employees and unions to employers' flexibility initiatives and the consideration of local levels of job regulation and union organization.
Publication Name: International Journal of Human Resource Management
Subject: Human resources and labor relations
ISSN: 0958-5192
Year: 1995
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Globalization and trade union strategy: industrial restructuring and human resource management in the international civil aviation industry
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The international civil aviation industry is the focus for research into the impact of globalization on human resource management. It is suggested that labour is usually slow to establish new strategies of industrial and political action required to address the restructuring of capital. Capital still finds it easier to combine than labour.
Publication Name: International Journal of Human Resource Management
Subject: Human resources and labor relations
ISSN: 0958-5192
Year: 2001
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