It is widely acknowledged that small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) cannot afford
underutilize their workforce and owner/managers encourage ways to involve employees. In …

This paper uses two recent large‐scale surveys in New Zealand to test the various reasons
given for lower rates of union membership among younger workers. Younger workers' …

The percentage of workers who choose not to join the union available to them at their
workplace has been rising in Britain and New Zealand. Using comparable data for both …

El fenómeno de la caída de la tasa de afiliación sindical ha suscitado diversas
interpretaciones, las cuales pueden agruparse en dos grandes corrientes. La primera de …

Formal systems of non-union employee representation are receiving increasing attention in
the Anglo-American world. Drawing on the New Zealand Worker Representation and …

Drawing on survey findings, in this article the authors examine levels of public support in
New Zealand for a union default. The key findings are that support is high (59%), that …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to place empirical research on New Zealand
employers' attitudes to collective bargaining and legislative change within the context of the …

Union decline and the 'representation gap'are two commonly recognised and interrelated
phenomena. Numerous proposals have been made to solve this double-sided problem. One …

This article uses individual-level data from the New Zealand Election Study surveys to
analyse trade union membership decline between 1990 and 2002. The abrupt decline in …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to provide contemporary information and analysis of
women's location within the service sector of New Zealand; to evaluate the responsiveness …