TY - JOUR
T1 - Dismantling Pluralism: Employee Relations in Irish Greenfield Sites
T2 - Industrial relations in Irish greenfield sites
AU - Gunnigle, Paddy
AU - Morley, Michael
AU - MacCurtain, Sarah
PY - 2001
Y1 - 2001
N2 - Focuses on recent empirical evidence on management approaches to industrial relations in greenfield companies in Ireland. Places particular emphasis on the impact of industrial relations on the location of greenfield site facilities, patterns of trade union recognition and avoidance, pay determination, and the role of employer associations. Finds that, despite a national system of "bargained consensus" and the integration of trade unions into corporatist decision-making structures on economic and social issues, most recent greenfield site facilities are non-union. Argues that this evidence points to extensive management opposition to conventional pluralist industrial relations, despite the existence of a State system which has consistently promoted a consensus approach over the past two decades. This apparent paradox is explained by reference to the transformation in the structure and performance of the Irish economy in parallel with related social changes since the early 1980s.
AB - Focuses on recent empirical evidence on management approaches to industrial relations in greenfield companies in Ireland. Places particular emphasis on the impact of industrial relations on the location of greenfield site facilities, patterns of trade union recognition and avoidance, pay determination, and the role of employer associations. Finds that, despite a national system of "bargained consensus" and the integration of trade unions into corporatist decision-making structures on economic and social issues, most recent greenfield site facilities are non-union. Argues that this evidence points to extensive management opposition to conventional pluralist industrial relations, despite the existence of a State system which has consistently promoted a consensus approach over the past two decades. This apparent paradox is explained by reference to the transformation in the structure and performance of the Irish economy in parallel with related social changes since the early 1980s.
KW - Human resource management
KW - Industrial relations
KW - Ireland
KW - Management attitudes
KW - Trade union recognition
KW - Trade unions
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=0035589260&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1108/00483480110386455
DO - 10.1108/00483480110386455
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0035589260
SN - 0048-3486
VL - 30
SP - 263
EP - 279
JO - Personnel Review
JF - Personnel Review
IS - 3
ER -