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The second in The Future of Trade Unions in Britain series, this book covers the variety of ways in which unions are trying to revitalize themselves. There is a strong emphasis on organizing new workplaces and fresh evidence on the responses of employers to union presence. The impact of partnerships with employers, both in private and public sectors, is explored and so too are union innovations in structure, including use of the internet. An exciting new contribution.
The second in The Future of Trade Unions in Britain series, this book covers the variety of ways in which unions are trying to revitalize themselves. There is a strong emphasis on organizing new workplaces and fresh evidence on the responses of employers to union presence. The impact of partnerships with employers, both in private and public sectors, is explored and so too are union innovations in structure, including use of the internet. An exciting new contribution.
It is fashionable to speak of trades unions in the UK as
organisations in decline. However, it is their organisation and, in
particular, their financial status, which ultimately dictates
unions' ability to survive, recruit, and influence employers. This
book provides the first systematic picture of union financial
status for thirty years, and reveals a dramatic picture. Though,
overall, unions have become financially less healthy in the
post-war period, many unions experienced an improved financial
position during the membership contraction of the Thatcher years.
It also shows that the long term financial decline of unions has
been more affected by competition between unions for membership
than by the effects of traumatic industrial disputes.
It is fashionable to speak of trades unions in the UK as
organisations in decline. However, it is their organisation and, in
particular, their financial status, which ultimately dictates
unions' ability to survive, recruit, and influence employers. This
book provides the first systematic picture of union financial
status for thirty years, and reveals a dramatic picture. Though,
overall, unions have become financially less healthy in the
post-war period, many unions experienced an improved financial
position during the membership contraction of the Thatcher years.
It also shows that the long term financial decline of unions has
been more affected by competition between unions for membership
than by the effects of traumatic industrial disputes.
Management is a fragmented and interdisciplinary area of study,
with a lot of academic branches. Willman argues this tree is
narrower at its roots, and these roots lie primarily in social
science. Key to the purpose of the book is to present management
theory as applied social science. Developed out of a core
management course at Master's level, this book introduces the field
to students who may have little prior knowledge of management.
Willman interprets 'management' broadly to embrace the
sub-disciplines of strategy, finance, accounting, marketing,
organisational behaviour and operations management. The text aims
to show how they arose and how they relate, thus engaging the
reader in a little history. The book is integrative, in that it
seeks to find common concerns in disparate literatures. It is also
critical in that it seeks to comparatively evaluate contributions
to the management field both in terms of theoretical contribution
and practical impact. It is intended to be accessible to a range of
readers, presenting technical materials in an informal way.
Finally, it is introductory in that it assumes no previous
knowledge of the academic management field.
This is a book about traders in financial markets: what they do,
the kind of people they are, how they perceive the world they
inhabit, how they make decisions and take risks. This is also a
book about how traders are managed-the best and the worst
examples-and about the institutions they inhabit: firms, markets,
cultures and theories of how the world works. How these
institutions function, how traders are managed, and how traders
view the world, all have profound effects on the wider financial
environment. This book explores these relationships and their
implications theoretically and empirically. The data discussed in
this book on a three-year project researching the psychological and
social influences on the behavior and performance of traders in
investment banks. One hundred and eighteen traders and managers in
four leading organizations participated. Data was collected through
semi-structured interviews supplemented by questionnaries, measures
of personality, risk propensity and a novel computer based measure
designed to assess illusion of control and other cognitive biases.
The authors' approach to writing this book is explicitly
interdisciplinary. hey draw on sociology, psychology and econics in
order to illuminate the work of traders and the world they inhabit.
The book is a significant contribution to the growing body of
research and literature suggesting that if we are to effectively
understand financial markets and the actors who inhabit them, the
insights of neo-classical financial economics need supplementing
with a broader range of social science approaches. The book will be
of value to researchers interested in the functioning of financial
institutions and markets, to those with an interest in market
regulation and to practitioners wishing to benefit from an
analytical perspective on the challenges facing traders and their
managers.
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