This article highlights the organization change implications for organizations that are
attempting to develop collaborative relationships with their suppliers. The research focuses …

This collection examines the significance of partnership-based approaches to the
modernization of employment relations. Drawing from the work of leading researchers the …

Anti-bureaucratic sentiment has been a pervasive element of political discourse for over a
century. Pervasive but not uniform. Different political discourses have problematized state …

The improvement that high organizational performance provides is becoming more critical in
today's increasing conditions of competition. The effects of human resource functions and …

Organizational culture is the pattern of values and beliefs held by members of an
organization and the management of culture is now one of the most frequently discussed of …

The authors investigate whether public sector organizations can still be considered 'model
employers' as they were before the late 1970s. Comparisons are made with private sector …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to bring together two separate strands of the literature
(politics and industrial relations) on civil service management and reform to enable …

Job security, until recently, has been seen as a defining characteristic of traditional public
sector employment, and the 'risk-averse', time-serving bureaucrat is a common, negative …

In this paper, a model for buyer-seller relationships between Ghanaian fresh fruit and
vegetable exporters and their buyers in Europe is provided. Organizational culture is …

The aim of this article is to investigate differences between the British public and private
sectors in terms of the decentralisation of employment relations. Drawing on data from the …