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Topic: Management perspective – You have been asked to give advice to the management of a manufacturing organisation (employing approx one thousand employees) in the production of upmarket food products, mostly sweet and savoury biscuits. The production (…)
TOPIC : You have been asked to give advice to the management of a manufacturing organisation (employing approx one thousand employees) in the production of upmarket food products, mostly sweet and savoury biscuits. The production operators � food processing and packing – are represented by UNITE which has approx 70% membership of this group. UNITE has been recognised for collective bargaining for a number of years and shop floor reps are involved in representation of their members in discipline & grievance processes, but management has tried to contain or ignore the TU presence as far as possible. Due to competitive pressures there is now a strategic need to increase employee flexibility, quality and productivity and management have been considering the possible advantages of a partnership agreement with UNITE. Produce a report for management which outlines the possible benefits and drawbacks of this, identifies the implications for management, recommends whether or not they should pursue this and advises them on the key requirements for success in practice
Content :
-Clear description of partnership agreement, and discussion of possible benefits and drawbacks
-Analysis of the implications of partnership for management
-Reasoned recommendations and advice on the key requirements for success in practice
-Extent of research and use of literature
Knowledge & understanding demonstrated in analysis
Recommended reading :
Blyton, P. and Turnbull, P. (2004) The Dynamics of Employee Relations (3rd Edition), Basingstoke, Palgrave, Chapter 8
Johnstone, S. Wilkinson, A and Ackers, P (2004) �Partnership paradoxes: a case study of an energy company� Employee Relations Vol. 26 No. 4
Marks, A., Findlay, P., Hine, J., McKinlay, A. and Thompson, P. (1998), �The politics of partnership? Innovation in employment relations in the Scottish spirits industry�, British Journal of Industrial Relations, 36, 209-26.
Martinez Lucio, M. and Stuart, M. (2002) �Assessing partnership: the prospects for and challenges of, modernisation� Special Edition Employee Relations, 24:3.
Oxenbridge, S. and Brown, W. (2002) ‘The Two faces of Partnership’ Employee Relations, 24 (3) pp262-276.
Stuart, M. and Martinez Lucio, M. (eds) (2005) Partnership and Modernisation in Employee Relations, Routledge.
Tailby, S. and Winchester, D. (2000) �Management and Trade Unions: Towards Social Partnership?� in eds. S. Bach and K Sissons, Personnel Management 3rd edition, Blackwell: Oxford.
Tailby S, Richardson M, Upchurch M, Danford A and Stewart P, (2007) �Partnership with and without trade unions in the UK financial services: filling or fuelling the representation gap?� Industrial Relations Journal 38:3
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