Relations Industrielles/Industrial Relations articles from September 1996

Relations Industrielles/Industrial Relations archives from September 1996

Settlement rates and settlement stages in compulsory interest arbitration.
September 22, 1996... A persistent theme in the literature on compulsory interest arbitration is whether this dispute settlement procedure inhibits genuine collective bargaining. One method for assessing the impact of arbitration on the bargaining process is to...

Leadership, social support and work influence: a study of the group form of working in a Swedish psychiatric hospital.
September 22, 1996... This paper studies leadership, conditions of influence and effectiveness in workplaces where a group form has been chosen. The aim of the investigation is to supplement previous research by shedding light on how the exchange of social support...

Unionization and profitability in the Canadian manufacturing sector.
September 22, 1996... Numerous studies in industrial economics have developed and empirically tested various hypotheses within the Structure Conduct Performance (SCP) paradigm, particularly within the context of profitability studies. The focus of these profitability...

Work-sharing benefits in Canada: an effective employment stabilization policy measure?
September 22, 1996... As the scope for demand management policies to attenuate high unemployment is reduced, there is renewed interest in alternative strategies. Among these are job-sharing policies, which consist of an array of measures designed to ration an excess...

Hours-of-rest regulations in the Canadian shipping industry.
September 22, 1996... In any industry, hours of work are determined by a number of factors including social custom, technological change, union-employer negotiation, market demand and government regulation. Government regulation is often used in industries where the...