Part I: A Theory of Employment Systems
1: The Employment Relationship
2: The Limits of Managerial Authority
3: Diffusion and Predominance of Employment Rules
4: Classification, and the Consolidation of Employment Systems
Part II: Evidence and Personnel Management Implications
5: Employment Systems: comparative evidence
6: Performance Management
7: Pay and Incentives
8: Skills and Labour Market Structure
Part III: Conclusions
9: Employment Systems and the Theory of the Firm: societal
diversity
References
David Marsden is Professor of Industrial Relations at the London
School of Economics. His career has also taken him to
Aix-en-Provence, Trier, and Rome as a Visiting Professor. He has
researched extensively on comparative industrial relations and
labour markets, and he has worked with the ILO, the OECD, the
European Commission, and the World Bank. At present, he also acts
as a member of a team of advisors to European Commissioner Edith
Cresson on
education and training policies in the EU.
`Marsden's deductive analysis of employment systems is interesting
and insightful from a micro-level perspective.'
Suzanne J.Konzelmann
"A recent elegantly written book by Professor David Marsden at the
London School of Economics provides further evidence of the need
for the closing of that perceived gap between work and how it is
organised." Robert Taylor, Financial Times, 03/02/2000
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