Beschreibung:
William K. Roche is Full Professor of Industrial Relations and Human Resources at the College of Business, University College Dublin. He is a graduate of UCD and completed his doctorate at the University of Oxford, where he was Heyworth Memorial Prize Research Fellow of Nuffield College. He has held visiting professorships at the University of South Australia, Adelaide and at the University of Melbourne and the Cyprus International Institute of Management. He was a Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute, Florence. He is a Fellow of the Geary Institute for Public Policy at UCD.
Drawing on detailed primary research, the book examines the drivers of innovation in the Irish case and shows how the new state agency for workplace conflict resolution, the Workplace Relations Commission, operates and maintains the confidence of employers, unions, people at work and government.
Chapter One: Reconstructing Workplace Conflict Resolution in Liberal Market Economies Chapter Two: Voluntarism and Conflict Resolution in Ireland Chapter Three: The Labour Relations Commission Chapter Four: The Workplace Relations Commission Chapter Five: Pressures for the Reform of Conflict Resolution Agencies Chapter Six: The New Organizational Character of Conflict Resolution Chapter Seven: Covid-19 and the Delivery of Conflict Resolution Services Chapter Eight: Lessons on the Road to the Workplace Relations Commission