Collective bargaining and new work regimes : 'too important to be left to bosses'
Findlay, P. and McKinlay, A. and Marks, A. and Thompson, P. (2009) Collective bargaining and new work regimes : 'too important to be left to bosses'. Industrial Relations Journal, 40 (3). pp. 235-251. ISSN 0019-8692 (https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2338.2009.00523.x)
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Abstract
The formal negotiations process remains perhaps the least-studied moment of collective bargaining. Drawing on ideal types of 'distributive' and 'integrative' bargaining and the 'formal/informal' distinction, this article reports non-participant observation and ethnographic research into the negotiations process that enabled a change agreement in a British multinational, hereafter anonymised as FMCG. Informal bargaining relations provided the backdrop to-and emerged within-the formal negotiations process. Formal bargaining established new employment contracts based on a simplified internal labour market and generated the joint governance processes to enable and regulate the change process. Neither management nor union strategy was wholly derived from rational, interest-based positions. The negotiations process was essential to strategy formation and to the emergence of sufficient 'integrative' bargaining for all parties to devise and approve new processual institutions and norms to deliver a more flexible labour process and to restore the long-run viability for 'distributive' bargaining.
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Item type: Article ID code: 18856 Dates: DateEventMay 2009PublishedSubjects: Social Sciences > Industries. Land use. Labor > Management. Industrial Management Department: Strathclyde Business School > Work, Organisation and Employment Depositing user: Prof Patricia Findlay Date deposited: 13 May 2010 13:26 Last modified: 27 Aug 2024 00:36 Related URLs: URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/18856