TY - BOOK ID - 5173113 TI - Willing slaves? PY - 1994 VL - 21 SN - 0521412579 0521467195 0511003242 0511582560 9780511003240 9780521467193 9780521412575 9780511582561 PB - Cambridge, U.K. New York Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - Industrial management KW - Industrial relations KW - Gestion d'entreprise KW - Relations industrielles KW - Employee participation KW - Case studies KW - Participation du personnel KW - Etudes de cas KW - Cas, Etudes de KW - Labor & Workers' Economics KW - Business & Economics KW - Business administration KW - Business enterprises KW - Business management KW - Corporate management KW - Corporations KW - Industrial administration KW - Management, Industrial KW - Rationalization of industry KW - Scientific management KW - Management KW - Business KW - Industrial organization KW - E-books KW - Business, Economy and Management KW - Business Management KW - Case studies. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:5173113 AB - Many people believe that industrial relations have been transformed. For some, current developments are the result of new human resource management techniques which have overcome adversarial workplace traditions. For others, old attitudes remain, their expression stifled by vigorous competition in product and labour markets. Willing Slaves? explores these competing claims. It shows that managers have come to question past approaches to employee relations. Nowadays they believe that 'winning workers' hearts and minds' is a crucial part of successful management. Equally, however, managers have not yet found ways to make their new ideas work well. Workers continue to place little trust in management, inefficient working practices persist, and attempts to build a 'new industrial relations' have fallen short of the mark. Willing Slaves? concludes by arguing that the best way forward is for organisations to commit themselves to long term labour relations policies which enable workers to participate in management decision-making. ER -