- Title
- The many meanings of co-operation in the employment relationship and their implications
- Creator
- Bray, Mark; Budd, John W.; Macneil, Johanna
- Relation
- British Journal of Industrial Relations Vol. 58, Issue 1, p. 114-141
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/bjir.12473
- Publisher
- Wiley-Blackwell Publishing
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2020
- Description
- Co-operation in the employment relationship continues to be a widely lauded goal, but academics, practitioners and policy makers rarely define the concept or analyse systematically its variants. This is problematic because a lack of clarity is a significant barrier to academic discourse and practical implementation in many organizations and countries. This article therefore carefully develops a framework that results in six key perspectives on co-operation rooted in five assumptions. In addition to fostering a deeper understanding of co-operation, these six perspectives can be used to theorize alternative employment relations paradigms when co-operation rather than conflict is viewed as the central construct. Moreover, a dynamic analysis of these six perspectives adds new insights to understanding the challenges of achieving and sustaining truly co-operative regimes, while also highlighting the need to go beyond structures and practices by incorporating the role of ideas in analyses of the success or failure of co-operative efforts.
- Subject
- co-operation; employment relationships; conflicts; implications
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1459087
- Identifier
- uon:45577
- Identifier
- ISSN:0007-1080
- Language
- eng
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