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Partnership at work

Roche, William K. - Nama Orang
Geary, John F. - Nama Orang

The partnership arrangements established between the Irish Airports’Authority, Aer Rianta, and its trade unions in the mid 1990s were amongstthe most far-reaching of their kind in promoting union and staff involve-ment in all aspects of company decision-making from work groups anddepartments to the making of corporate strategy. Radical organizationalchange was envisaged in this path-breaking partnership. Significant achieve-ments were recorded. Major commercial challenges were addressed andpartnership effectively came to displace traditional industrial relationsarrangements and postures in key areas. A decade later, however, thepartnership had broken down.This book presents the story of the Aer Rianta partnership, charting itsorigins, progress, achievements, obstacles and eventual demise. Partnership atWorkis based on access to parties, documents, observation on how thepartnership functioned and three surveys of the company’s workforce. Asdetailed, in-depth studies of workplace partnership are rare in the inter-national literature, the analysis provided in this book makes an importantcontribution to the understanding of employment relations. The accountgiven by William K. Roche and John F. Geary is balanced and instructiveand allows for a comprehensive understanding of the functioning and out-comes of partnership

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