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dc.contributor.authorTownsend, K.
dc.contributor.authorWilkinson, A.
dc.contributor.authorBurgess, John
dc.date.accessioned2017-01-30T11:27:22Z
dc.date.available2017-01-30T11:27:22Z
dc.date.created2013-08-04T20:00:15Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.identifier.citationTownsend, Keith and Wilkinson, Adrian and Burgess, John. 2013. Routes to Partial Success: Collaborative Employment Relations and Employee Engagement. The International Journal of Human Resource Management. 25 (6): pp. 915-930.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/11861
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/09585192.2012.743478
dc.description.abstract

The contradictory objectives of consent and control in the employment relationship means that there is no single best way of managing and furthermore, all managerial strategies are ‘routes to partial failure’ (Hyman 1987, p. 30). This paper examines ‘managerial strategies’ toward employment relations in three organisations with a focus on the ‘success’ aspect of Hyman's partial failure notion. The respective management teams of each case study are involved in management strategies to lift the standard of how they engage with employees. While the indeterminacy of labour ensures that managerial strategies will never be complete, we seek to better understand how collaborative approaches to employment relations, for example partnerships, can co-exist, complement, or contradict within organisations with more individualised approaches to managing people, for example, employee engagement.

dc.publisherRoutledge
dc.subjectmutual gains
dc.subjectcollaboration
dc.subjectemployee engagement
dc.subjectpartnership
dc.titleRoutes to Partial Success: Collaborative Employment Relations and Employee Engagement
dc.typeJournal Article
dcterms.source.volumeEarly online publication
dcterms.source.issn09585192
dcterms.source.titleThe International Journal of Human Resource Management
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