Managing under Pressure

Industrial Relations in Local Government

AvMartin Laffin

Häftad, Engelska, 1989

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Beskrivning

An introduction to the main issues in and theoretical perspectives of industrial relations in local government and the public services. The problems of industrial relations are illustrated by case studies of a Thatcherite Conservative and a left-wing Labour Council in Britain.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:1989-07-01
Mått:140 x 216 x 13 mm
Vikt:290 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:207
Upplaga:1989
Förlag:Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN:9780333446607

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Innehållsförteckning

Industrial relations in local government - pluralism, social action and the Marxist approaches, corporatism, fiscal crisis; management under pressure - the structure of local authority industrial relations, the central-local government relationship, the negotiability of change under the fiscal crisis; unions under pressure; radical Conservatism and the unions - the departure of the Chief Executive, the redundancy dispute, the first administration and privatization, housing, the building society dispute; radical Labourism and the unions - the low pay issue, decentralization, the strike, the rate-capping crisis; crises of managerial authority - coping with environmental pressures, sustaining the negotiability of change, differentiating management roles and responsibilities; the unions and the management of discontent - responding to change, relating to management, managing discontent; managing under pressure - the negotiation of change - policy versus trust, from fragmented management to differentiated management, reclaiming the rights of management?