HR self-service systems: Labour saving or labour shifting? by Dimitra Skoumpopoulou, Nina M. Jorden, Clive Trusson

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The potential of labour−management partnership: a longitudinal case analysis by Stewart Johnstone, Adrian Wilkinson

“…Issues of labour−management cooperation have long attracted the attention of management researchers, practitioners and policymakers. …”
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A comparative study of trade unions and labour relations in the United Kingdom and the United States by C.A. Horn

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Violence on the frontline: a qualitative study of how service workers cope by Vicky Bishop

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Achieving efficiency, equity and voice? Labour-management cooperation in UK financial services by Stewart Johnstone, Adrian Wilkinson, Peter Ackers

“…Empirical evidence is mixed, though the most recent empirical studies have been critical in tone (Stuart and Martinez-Lucio, 2004), suggesting that – despite the mutual gains rhetoric - the ‘balance of advantage’ is often skewed in favour of management (Guest and Peccei, 2001). …”
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Slip, trip and fall accidents during the delivery of mail: risk factors and interventions by Tim A. Bentley

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"Frontstage" and "backstage" managerial and emotional labour in a comparative international research project by Line Nyhagen

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Construction labour productivity analysis and benchmarking: the case of Tanzania by Ninatubu Mbora Lema

“…Construction labour productivity at macroeconomic level and site level were also investigated. …”
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Selling socialism: the marketing of the 'very old' British Labour Party by Dominic Wring

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The media and intra-party democracy: 'new' Labour and the clause four debate by Dominic Wring

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Customer-driven management models for choiceless clientele? Business process reengineering in a California welfare agency by Jill Esbenshade, Matt Vidal, Gina Fascilla, Mariko Ono

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No-size-fits-all: collaborative governance as an alternative for addressing labour issues in global supply chains by Sun Lee, Kamel Mellahi, Michael Mol, Vijay Pereira

“…Based on interviews with managers involved in the establishment and management of such coalitions and supplier firms in the garment industry, we examine the rationale behind collaborative governance and discuss its opportunities and challenges in addressing labour issues in global supply chains.…”
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Austerity policing, emotional labour and the boundaries of police work: an ethnography of a police force control room in England by Karen Lumsden, Alex Black

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Implementing labour standards in construction: Briefing and guidance notes by Rebecca E. Scott, Andrew P. Cotton

“…This series of Briefing and Guidance Notes Implementing Labour Standards in Construction is based on a review of international literature, together with lessons learned from pilot studies carried out in Ghana, India and Zambia. …”
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The effort of partnership: Capacity development and moral capital in partnership for mutual gains by Catherine Casey, Helen Delaney

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Applying Budd's model to partnership by Stewart Johnstone, Adrian Wilkinson, Peter Ackers

“…Over the last decade, the notions of workplace partnership and labour—management cooperation have resulted in distinctive and vociferous debates regarding forms of employee voice in the UK. …”
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State accumulation projects and inward investment regimes strategies by Tod D. Rutherford, Gregor Murray, Phil Almond, Matthieu Pelard

“…State accumulation projects and inward investment regimes strategies. Regional Studies. Based on Kitchener–Waterloo, Ontario, and Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean, Quebec, case studies, we link inward investment regimes (IIR) to the strategic relational approach to the state. …”
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Metabolic energy cost of workers in agriculture, construction, manufacturing, tourism, and transportation industries by Konstantina Poulianiti, George Havenith, Andreas Flouris

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Review: Metabolic energy cost of workers in agriculture, construction, manufacturing, tourism, and transportation industries by Konstantina Poulianiti, George Havenith, Andreas Flouris

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Lost in time and space: temporal and spatial challenges facing older workers in a global economy from a career capital perspective by Sue Tempest, Christine Coupland

“…We draw on empirical evidence from existing studies of older workers and their careers. The contribution of this paper to human resource management debates is threefold. …”
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Modelling employee turnover by Kevin Morrell

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Union strategies in the era of globalisation: case studies from Chile's large-scale copper mining sector (1982-2009) by Fernando Duran-Palma

“…The research is based on a comparative multi case study of nine union organisations and draws on semi-structured interviews with union leaders, senior managers, state officials, academics, and elite interviewees. …”
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Perceptions of empowerment by the construction senior management by Kay Greasley, Nicola King, Alan Bryman, Andrew Dainty, Andrew Price

“…This is surprising given the industry’s reliance upon virtual teams, fragmented work groups, sub-contracted labour and multi-organizational project delivery structures. …”
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A study of the impact of information systems implementation on care service organizations in the public sector by Kenneth Brown

“…The research employs a multi-method research strategy combining both quantitative and qualitative research approaches. The research study found that the actions of senior management in the organizations investigated were on the whole driven by the twin goals of efficiency and cost saving; targets set for them by central government. …”
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A strategy for managing brickwork in Sri Lanka by Walimuni V.K.M. Abeysekera

“…The chaos described in Sri Lankan brickwork is different to the 'chaos' as outlined in chaos theory although exhibiting some similarities. This study shows how concepts embodied in chaos theory can be used conceptually and symbolically in furthering understanding on issues related to construction management. …”
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Maternal daily activity in low risk pregnancy: a longitudinal study by Penny E. Clarke

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A critical review on BIM for construction safety management by Shalaka Hire, Kirti Ruikar, Sayali Sandbhor, C. B. Amarnath

“…The bar of onsite construction accidents in India is rising at a rapid pace and it shows that current safety practices are insufficient. To manage the smooth and safer working of labour force and to reduce on-site accidents, conventional safety practices need to be replaced with advanced and digitalized safety practices. …”
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Collective mobilisations among immigrant workers in low-skilled sectors: a study of community organising of immigrant workers in the UK by Zhe Jiang

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Design and financial aspects of the end-of-life management of telecommunications products by Ming Kaan Low

“…The first theme, the design issues related to the end-of-life management is explored via a benchmarking study of eight telephones from European (UK and Germany) and Far Eastern suppliers (China and Malaysia). …”
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Intelligent e-wastes processing for effective end-of-life management by Ehsan Simaei

“…Improving material concentration prior to recycling, as the key matter, has already been studied in context of robotic disassembly and disassembly path planning. …”
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The sensing, knowing hand: a phenomenological drawing tool by Marion Arnold

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The quality of accident and health data in the construction industry: interviews with senior managers by Diane Gyi, Alistair Gibb, Roger Haslam

“…This paper describes a feasibility study using in-depth interviews with senior managers to explore the quality of accident and health data of nine large, high profile companies from the engineering construction sector. …”
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Representation of careers in British print media, 1985–2015 by Ghazal Vahidi

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Long working hours and physical activity by David Angrave, Andy Charlwood, Mark Wooden

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Consuming work and managing employability: students' work orientations and the process of contemporary job search by Ekaterina Chertkovskaya

“…Individuals are exhorted to manage their employability, in order to be able to exercise choice in the labour market. …”
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Partnership in UK financial services: achieving efficiency, equity and voice? by Stewart Johnstone

“…Finally, the study considers some of the main challenges to partnership in the UK. …”
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Investigation of factors affecting rural road maintenance: the case of Sokoto State, Nigeria by Shehu Yabo Abubakar

“…The study relates to road management in Nigeria, on one (land locked) state out of the 36 that comprise the country. …”
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A hybrid model of communication and information management in mega construction projects in Dubai using a new critical success factor approach by Tarek Abdullah Hussein Barakat

“…The first phase examined what the most crucial critical success factors (CSFs) were in the case study projects. These were revealed to be communication, top management support and effective change management. …”
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A probabilistic predictive model for assessing the economic reusability of load-bearing building components: developing a Circular Economy framework by Kami Rakhshanbabanari, Jean-Claude Morel, Alireza Daneshkhah

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Towards an understanding of the HRM bundle for lean service in the UK by Araz A. Zirar

“…As a main contribution, the analysis identifies 18 enabling HRM practices to support lean service: recruitment and selection, role profiling, capacity planning, absence management, retention and release, succession planning, training, career development, performance management, reward and recognition, groups and teamwork, employee voice, employee communication and collaboration, labour relations, employee motivation, employee involvement, employee empowerment and employee health and safety. …”
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High technology small and medium sized enterprises (HTSMEs): an assessment of the determinants of growth and constraints faced by HTSMEs in Malaysia by Mohd Hassan Mohd Osman

“…However, most the hypotheses relating to business strategy were rejected; the researcher offers some explanations for these rejections. Second, tile case studies demonstrate that labour constraints among HTSMEs are prevalent, whereas other propositions were not substantiated. …”
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The absence decision: a theoretical and empirical analysis by Sarah Brown

“…In the year of the last miners' strike, 27 million working days were lost as a result of strike activity, a figure which pales by comparison with the 375 million working days lost on average as a result of absenteeism over the 1980's [Economic Trends]. Furthermore, a study by management consultants, Arthur Anderson, recently estimated the cost of absenteeism to the UK industry at £6 billion per year [The Independent, 22/10/91]. …”
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Productivity in longwall mining of hard coal by Alan I. Stainer

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The 'death of improvement': an exploration of the legacy of performance and service improvement reform in English local authorities, 1997-2017 by Russell J. Glennon

“…When Tony Blair's New Labour administration took control in 1997, it sought to establish a programme of organizational, performance, and democratic reform. …”
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‘To inspire women and girls’: Exploring elite female cricketers’ uses of, and responses to, mediated (in)visibility in ordinary and extraordinary times by Hannah Thompson

“…Specifically, this study draws from interviews 8 former England cricketers, 7 current England cricketers and their media manager. …”
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Evaluating opportunities for sustainable rural water provision using solar PV in sub-Saharan Africa: a case study of Malawi by Esther Phiri

“…For irrigation, households still rely on traditional methods of irrigation namely; watering cans with very few having treadle pumps, which are all labour intensive. From the stakeholders point of view, challenges included lack of finances, failure of current community management system, lack of coordination and lack of enabling policies. …”
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Sustaining academic professional careers [abstract] by Andrew Rothwell, Frances M. Rothwell

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