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- Title
MANAGEMENT STYLE, AUTHORITY AND RESISTANCE AT THE WORKPLACE: A CASE STUDY.
- Authors
Mylett, Terri; Laneyrie, Frances
- Abstract
This paper is a study of authority relations in a workplace in the metals manufacturing industry in the Illawarra region of NSW, Australia. In this small workplace, there was no bargaining, little consultation, low information sharing, and a paternalistic management style informed by a unitarist ideology. Trade unions and industrial law had only a small influence on the employment relations climate. The workplace was inactively unionised. The workers had limited alternative labour market options and lacked tradeable skills. Such circumstances are suggestive of managerial dominance. This was evident, but not entirely straightforward. Patterns of authority, control and resistance were finely tuned to the circumstances of the workplace and the values of the general manager, but also embedded in the broader environment that shaped understandings of legitimate practice and attitudes. From this case study, it is apparent that authority and resistance are gendered processes. These processes were closely intertwined with the sex-based division of labour.
- Subjects
ILLAWARRA (N.S.W.); NEW South Wales; MANAGEMENT; WORK environment; DIVISION of labor; CASE studies
- Publication
Employment Relations Record, 2002, Vol 2, Issue 1, p71
- ISSN
1444-7053
- Publication type
Article