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- Title
THE LIMITS OF TRADE UNION POWER IN ORGANISATIONAL DECISION MAKING.
- Authors
Wilson, David C.; Butler, Richard J.; Cray, David; Hickson, David J.; Mallory, Geoffrey R.
- Abstract
This article examines the limit of trade union power in organizational decision-making in Great Britain. The data for the present research are on 150 decision making processes selected from a sample of thirty British organizations. Five decisions were studied in each organization. These organizations were chosen primarily to reflect the broad diversity of existing organizations and, consequently, the sample consists of organizations from both the public and private sectors which together produce a wide range of goods and services. Seventeen organizations were from the private sector and the remaining thirteen organizations were in the public sector. Decisions were defined by the chief executive and top management as those which were important to the organization as a whole. In addition, six intensive cases (three of which were traced contemporaneously) expanded the data available on the 150 decision making processes in the study. Generally, the article discusses several issues on labor unions' involvement in the strategic decision making of the company and the level of influence labor unions possess.
- Subjects
UNITED Kingdom; LABOR unions; ORGANIZATIONAL structure; DECISION making; CORPORATIONS; EXECUTIVES; PRIVATE sector; PUBLIC sector
- Publication
British Journal of Industrial Relations, 1982, Vol 20, Issue 3, p322
- ISSN
0007-1080
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1467-8543.1982.tb00108.x