The impact of the global financial crisis on managing employees

Purpose: This paper aims to provide a brief overview of the global financial crisis (GFC), highlighting its most frightening dimensions, the policy responses and issues around the management of labour during and post-GFC. Further, this paper introduces the five research papers that encompass this special issue. Design/methodology/approach: The papers presented here are early contributions on how the GFC has impacted the management of people. The key areas focused upon include the human resource management responses of multinational enterprises, the response of trade unions, the roles of employee representative bodies and the rationalisation of post-crisis managerial strategies. Findings: The major conclusions of this special issue are that the impact of the GFC was variable across countries and sectors in addition to the process of decision making, the types of decisions made, and the determinants and consequences of those decisions. Originality/value: The papers of the special issue provide some of the first empirical findings on how the GFC has impacted on people management, trade unions and the HR function in different contexts. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited.

Double-breasting voice systems: an assessment of motives, arrangements and durability

This article explores employee voice within the specific institutional arrangement of double-breasting. Double-breasting is when multi-plant organizations recognize trade unions in some company sites, with non-union arrangements at other company plants, or where a unionized firm acquires a new site that it then operates on a non-union basis. We examine three research questions in four separate case study organizations that operate employee voice double-breasting arrangements across 16 workplace locations on the island of Ireland. These questions consider employer motives for double-breasting, the practices that characterize double-breasting employee voice, and the micro-political implications of double-breasting. The article contributes to knowledge on the emergence and impact of double-breasting and employee voice systems. We subsequently advance two theoretical propositions: the first theorizing employer motives for double-breasting, and the second explaining the extent to which the practice of double-breasting is durable over time.

Implementação de um software de gestão de logística no Hospital Agostinho Ribeiro

O presente relatório possui o propósito de apresentar o estágio curricular desenvolvido na empresa “Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Felgueiras”, iniciado a 1 de maio de 2013, englobando horas de aprendizagem e consolidação de conhecimentos adquiridos no percurso académico. A realização do presente estágio está enquadrada no protocolo celebrado entre a “Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Felgueiras” e a Associação de Politécnicos do Norte, cumprindo desta forma o art.º 2 e 3 do Regulamento de Estágios Curriculares da Associação de Politécnicos do Norte (APNOR). A realização do estágio, bem como a realização deste relatório, é o produto final de meses de experiência laboral, pesquisa bibliográfica e de reflexão, de um ano curricular. Com a realização deste estágio e do relatório permitiu-me concluir acerca de como é elaborada a gestão hospitalar e a sua importância no contexto empresarial. A gestão contribui com o fornecimento de informações económicas nos diferentes usuários como: Gestores, Governo, Sindicato, Funcionários.

Collective Labour Agreement between the Public Utilities Commission of the City of St. Catharines and Local 556, The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, 1952

In 1952, Local 556 of The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers negotiated a contract with The Public Utilities Commission of the City of St. Catharines. The contract was to be in effect from July 1952 to September 1953. The document is unsigned.