Developing Positive Employment Relations

Part I. Conceptual Debates

1. Developing Positive Employment Relations: International Experiences of Labour–Management Partnership
Stewart Johnstone, Adrian Wilkinson

2. Trojan Horse or Tactic? The Case for Partnership
Jimmy Donaghey

3. Why Partnership Cannot Work and Why Militant Alternatives Can: Historical and Contemporary Evidence
Andrew Danford, Mike Richardson

Part II. National Contexts

4. Participation and Partnership in the UK: Progress and Prospects
Stewart Johnstone

5. Workplace Partnership in Ireland: Irreconcilable Tensions Between an ‘Irish Third Way’ of Voluntary Mutuality and Neoliberalism
Tony Dobbins, Tony Dundon

6. Labour–Management Partnership in the USA: Islands of Success in a Hostile Context
Adrienne E. Eaton, Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld, Saul A. Rubinstein

7. Evaluating Social Partnership in the Australian Context
Ying Xu, Glenn Patmore, Paul J Gollan

8. Battling in a Bleak Environment: The New Zealand Context for Partnership
Helen Delaney, Nigel Haworth

Part III. Partnership Cases

9. A Partial Partnership?The Contradictions of Cooperation at PowerCo
Jonathan Hoskin, Stewart Johnstone, Peter Ackers

10. Workplace Cooperation at Aughinish Alumina
Tony Dobbins, Tony Dundon

11. The Kaiser Permanente Labour–Management Partnership: 1997–2013
Thomas.A. Kochan

12. In Search of Workplace Partnership at Suncorp
Dhara Shah, Ying Xu, Paul.J Gollan, Adrian Wilkinson

13. Partnership in Practice in New Zealand: Improving Productivity in Fonterra’s Whareroa Site
Helen Delaney, Nigel Haworth

Avainsanat: Business and Management, Human Resource Development, Business Strategy/Leadership, Organization, International Business, Business Ethics