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This book argues that employers' organizations are resilient organizations that adapt to changing circumstances by developing new practices. It also explores these variations and their impacts on employer organizations.
List of contents
1. The Adaptation and Resilience of Employers' Organizations
Leon Gooberman and Marco Hauptmeier Part I Theoretical Perspectives on Employer Collective Action 2. Employers' Organizations: Sources of Power and Limits to Power
Glenn Morgan 3. Meta-organizing Employers: From Beneficial Constraints to Collective Self-discipline?
Markus Helfen 4. Facilitating Labour Shedding or Enhancing Labour Supply? An Analysis of German Employer Organizations' Views on Work Incentive Effects of Social Programmes
Thomas Paster 5. Culture and Coordinated Industrial Relations
Cathie Jo Martin Part II Employers' Organizations in Different Types of Capitalism 6. Employers' Organizations in China: Transmission Belt between Members and State
Judith Shuqin Zhu 7. Keeping the State out through Legitimacy: Employers' Organizations in Denmark
Christian Lyhne Ibsen and Steen E. Navrbjerg 8. Employers' Associations in Australia
Peter Sheldon and Louise Thornthwaite 9. German Employers' Associations and their Strategy of Deliberate Neglect
Martin Behrens Part III Different Types of Employers' Organizations 10. Countervailing Power and the Role of State Threats: The Case of Pro-religious Employers' Organizations in Turkey
Lisa Ahsen Sezer 11. Representing the Interests of Quebec Employers: The Contribution of Regional Employers' Organizations
Mélanie Laroche 12. Employers' Organizations and the Territorial Divergence of Employment Relations in Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland
Leon Gooberman and Marco Hauptmeier Part IV International and Comparative Employer Interest Representation 13. Comparing Higher Education Employer Organization
Geoffrey White and Laurence Hopkins 14. International Employers' Organizations and Public Policy beyond National Boundaries
Kevin Farnsworth and Cangheng Liu 15. Beyond Social Dialogue: The Varied Activities of European Employers' Organizations
Mona Aranea, Leon Gooberman, Marco Hauptmeier
About the author
Leon Gooberman is a Lecturer in Employment Relations at Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University, UK.
Marco Hauptmeier is a Professor of International Human Resource Management at Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University, UK.
Summary
This book argues that employers’ organizations are resilient organizations that adapt to changing circumstances by developing new practices. It also explores these variations and their impacts on employer organizations.
