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Employers' Reactions to the Productivity Drive: the Search for Labour Consensus *
Author(s) -
Regini Marino
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
labour
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.403
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 1467-9914
pISSN - 1121-7081
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9914.1992.tb00242.x
Subject(s) - scope (computer science) , productivity , meaning (existential) , action (physics) , conceptual framework , economics , positive economics , sociology , computer science , psychology , macroeconomics , social science , physics , quantum mechanics , psychotherapist , programming language
. European employers' different policies of personnel management and of industrial relations depend to some extent on the technological and organisational choices they make, but cultural ‐ and especially institutional ‐ factors play an even greater role, in a period in which previous models for action clearly appear inadequate and in which, as a consequence, uncertainty grows. This article illustrates a conceptual and analytical framework which helps understand the scope and the meaning of the recent managerial search for a greater labour consensus noted by many observers. Then it shows how this framework can be used, by applying it to the analysis of the Italian case. Finally, it tries to transform some of the propositions discussed into questions and hypotheses which should guide comparative research.