Managing the Employment Relationship

This is an Accepted Manuscript of a book chapter published by SAGE Publishing in Strategic Human Resource Management: An International Perspective, 2nd Edition on 2017, available at: https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/strategic-human-resource-management/book249141.The chapter discusses and explores the employment relationship within a UK and international context. It looks at Government ideological perspectives, employee engagement and employee voice.Peer reviewedFinal Accepted Versio

Managing the Employment Relationship

The chapter begins by discussing what is meant by ‘the employment relationship’, a term that is often used in a simplistic way, obscuring the complexities of such a relationship. The chapter goes on to consider the different organisational perspectives with regards to managing the relationship before taking a look at the impact of the various ‘actors’ involved in the employment relationship. By taking a multi-level approach, the chapter allows us to explore the employment relationship from different perspectives. Section 8.6 looks at the role that the state, and in particular government, has in various aspects of managing people. The next section looks at employers organisations and the extent to which they are able to influence employment matters at the local level. No discussion of the employment relationship is complete without a consideration of the power relations between management and workers and between workers and the government and this is covered in Section 8.8. The remaining sections of the chapter look at employee ‘voice’ and the individual and collective representation of workers; Section 8.10 focuses on employee involvement, engagement and participation and looks at the role of Trade Unions and Works Councils. The final section of the chapter examines how the media are able to impact the employment relationship

'Untangling multiple inequalities: intersectionality, work and globalisation'

Natalia Rocha Lawton, Moira Calveley, and Cynthia Forson, "Untangling multiple inequalities: intersectionality, work and globalisation", Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation, Vol. 9(2), November 2015.This article begins by outlining the position of women and work in the Global South, highlighting the precarity of their labour market participation. It then argues that the experiences of these women are often examined within a single dimensional analytical framework and are therefore invisible in the intersectional literature, which tends to take a Western centric approach. The paper also contends that existing research fails to consider the particular domestic and cultural circumstances of the women so examined, and how their location in these spaces impacts on their experiences of work. The article argues for an examination of women and work in the Global South that takes an intersectional approach that recognises the complexity of their experiences as generated by multi-categorical and multilevel strands of inequality. It then goes on to introduce the contributions to this special issue, which explore inequality through an intersectional lens.Peer reviewedFinal Accepted Versio

Key Players in International Human Resource Management

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