This volume is an examination of the origins, characteristics and performance of employee-owned firms. It focuses on firms that have converted to either partial or full employee ownership using recent institutional, fiscal and legal innovations. Based on five years of empirical research, this is a topical contribution to recent debates on the challenging nature of employment.

Product Description: A definitive study of partnership at work in the UK, with extensive surveys and interviews in organizations from the finance, NHS and local government sectors. The authors challenge conventional assumptions about the mutual interest associated with partnership, and find evidence of work intensification where partnership has been introduced...read more

Product Description: Employee empowerment is one of the most widely touted and potentially potent concepts in modern management. It raises fundamental questions about the nature and scope of management and organisation, and about the respective roles and responsibilities of front line practitioners...read more

Product Description: Paperback. Pub Date: 1992 Pages: 344 Publisher: John Wiley The 1980s Saw a Massive Increase in management initiated Employment involvement (EI) Schemes. The Team iefing. Quality groups and team WORKING for instance have become established practice throughout the developed world as employers recognize the imporatnce of their workforce as a resource...read more

Product Description: An "ABC of industrial democracy" which sets our their proposals for a new unionism, replacing over-bureaucratic structures.