Willing Slaves?: British Workers under Human Resource Management (Cambridge Studies in Management, Series Number 21) - Softcover

Scott, Andrew

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521467195 ISBN 13: 9780521467193

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1994

Synopsis

Willing Slaves? explores recent developments in employee relations. It argues that nowadays managers believe that winning workers' hearts and minds is a crucial element of successful management. Yet despite the introduction of new policies, managers have not succeeded in this aim. Workers still place little trust in management and the climate of relations in industry is still one of "them and us". This book argues that the only way to achieve cooperation at work is for managers to take account of workers' views when making decisions.

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Book Description:

Despite the introduction of new policies, managers have not succeeded in winning workers' hearts and minds, a crucial element of successful management. This study argues that the only way to achieve cooperation at work is for managers to consider workers' views in decision-making.

From the Back Cover:

Many people believe that industrial relations have been transformed. For some, current developments are the result of new human resource management techniques which have overcome adversarial workplace traditions. For others, old attitudes remain, their expression stifled by vigorous competition in product and labour markets. Willing slaves? explores these competing claims. It shows that managers have come to question past approaches to employee relations. Nowadays they believe that 'winning workers' hearts and minds' is a crucial part of successful management. Equally, however, managers have not yet found ways to make their new ideas work well. Workers continue to place little trust in management, inefficient working practices persist, and attempts to build 'new industrial relations' have fallen short of the mark. Willing slaves? concludes by arguing that the best way forward is for organisations to commit themselves to long term labour relations policies which enable workers to participate in management decision-making.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0521467195
• ISBN 13: 9780521467193
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 188