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Partnership, high performance work systems and quality of working life
Author(s) -
Danford Andy,
Richardson Mike,
Stewart Paul,
Tailby Stephanie,
Upchurch Martin
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
new technology, work and employment
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.889
H-Index - 45
eISSN - 1468-005X
pISSN - 0268-1072
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-005x.2008.00210.x
Subject(s) - general partnership , nexus (standard) , work (physics) , job satisfaction , quality of working life , public relations , quality (philosophy) , business , psychology , political science , social psychology , engineering , finance , mechanical engineering , philosophy , epistemology , embedded system
The paper measures the effects of workplace partnership and selected high performance work practices on four different dimensions of employee experience. Whilst the partnership– high performance work systems nexus seems to have little impact on employees’ job satisfaction or sense of attachment, it does, however, have a negative impact on both workplace stress and employee evaluations of union performance. The analysis thus questions common assumptions about the inevitability of ‘mutual gain’ and the necessity of employer/union partnership.