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Shop steward tenure and workplace organisation *
Author(s) -
Winch Graham
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
industrial relations journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.525
H-Index - 3
eISSN - 1468-2338
pISSN - 0019-8692
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-2338.1980.tb00329.x
Subject(s) - theme (computing) , job shop , winch , management , operations management , business , sociology , economics , engineering , computer science , flow shop scheduling , mechanical engineering , schedule , dynamic priority scheduling , operating system
The shop steward theme is continued in this article which is based upon research carried out in six manufacturing plants in Hull. Graham Winch identifies the problem of shop steward turnover and argues that the most important cause lies in the shop steward being deprived of resources necessary for carrying out the job.