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Joint Consultative Committee In The Malaysian Postal Industry, Balakrishnan Parasuraman, M. L. Jones Feb 2006

Joint Consultative Committee In The Malaysian Postal Industry, Balakrishnan Parasuraman, M. L. Jones

Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)

Employee participation (EP) is an important area of research in the industrial relations field (Heller, Pusic, Strauss and Wilpert 1998; Markey, Gollan, Hodgkinson, Chouragui and Veersma 2001; Harley, Hyman and Thompson 2005) The literature discusses two different forms of EP: direct and indirect participation. This paper will discuss indirect participation and more specifically examine the process of a joint consultation committee (JCC) in the Malaysian postal industry. Fundamental arguments will focus on two aspects. Firstly, how the postal industry uses their JCC model to improve employee participation, and secondly, based on the work of Marchington (1992; 1994) which model of …


Finance Sector Union Strategies In A World Of Change, Laurie Stevenson, Barbara Lepani Jan 1991

Finance Sector Union Strategies In A World Of Change, Laurie Stevenson, Barbara Lepani

Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education) - Papers

This conference paper was presented at the 'International Federation of Commercial, Clerical, Professional and Technical Employees' Conference, San Fransisco, August, 1991. The paper examined topics related to issues impacting the Australian Banking and Finance Sector such as Deregulation, Foreign investment, the European Community, Labour Force trends, New technologies, industrial relations and future directions and strategies for the Australian Finance Sector Union.