Helen Bewley

Inside the workplace : findings from the 2004 workplace employment relations survey

1. Introduction 2. A Profile of Workplaces and Employees 3. The Management of Employment Relations 4. Recruiting, Training and Work Organization 5. Representation, Consultation and Communication 6. Employee Representatives 7. The Determination of Pay and other Terms and Conditions 8. Workplace Conflict 9. Equality, Diversity and Work-Life Balance 10. Workplace Climate and Performance 11. Summary and Conclusions

Raising the Standard? The Regulation of Employment, and Public Sector Employment Policy

This article describes developments in employment regulation in 2005 and assesses how far these measures fulfilled the Government’s pledges to the union movement made in the Warwick Agreement. It also examines the Government’s behaviour as an employer, and the interplay between public and private sector employment practice. It concludes that there was limited evidence of Government commitment to the traditional conception of the good employer. There was also little sign of the public sector being used to promote a coherent model of employment practice to private sector employers in 2005. Direct regulation of the employment relationship was more in evidence.

Look Who's Talking: Sources of Variation in Information Disclosure in the UK

The article examines the correlates of variable levels of information disclosure by management to employees in the UK. It develops several hypotheses that are tested using 1998 and 2004 Workplace Employment Relations Survey data. The results show that managerial perceptions of goal alignment by employees and the existence of direct participation mechanisms are positively associated with disclosure at both dates. The size of the workplace has a generally negative relationship at both dates, but less so in 2004 than in 1998. Other variables such as financial distress and the presence of trade unions and joint consultation have more complicated relationships over the two time periods. The article discusses theoretical and policy implications of the findings.