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Examining the Relationship between employee Resistance to changes in job conditions and Wider Organisational Change: Evidence from Ireland. ESRI WP490. September 2014

Cronin, Hugh and McGuinness, Seamus (2014) Examining the Relationship between employee Resistance to changes in job conditions and Wider Organisational Change: Evidence from Ireland. ESRI WP490. September 2014. [Working Paper]

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    Abstract

    This paper uses a linked employer-employee dataset, the National Employment Survey, to examine the determinants of organisational change and employee resistance to change and, specifically, to examine the influence of employee inflexibility on the implementation of firm-level policies aimed at increasing competitiveness and workforce flexibility. Key finding arising from the research is that while workforce resistance to job-related change often forces firms to seek alternative means of achieving labour flexibility, there appears little that firms can do to prevent such resistance occurring. The presence of HRM staff, consultation procedures, wage bargaining mechanisms, bullying and equality polices etc were found to have little impact on the incidence of workforce resistance to changes in job conditions.

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    Item Type: Working Paper
    Subjects for non-EU documents: EU policies and themes > Policies & related activities > employment/labour market
    Countries > Ireland
    Subjects for EU documents: UNSPECIFIED
    EU Series and Periodicals: UNSPECIFIED
    EU Annual Reports: UNSPECIFIED
    Series: Series > Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI), Dublin > ESRI Working Papers
    Depositing User: Alyssa McDonald
    Official EU Document: No
    Language: English
    Date Deposited: 04 Aug 2017 15:24
    Number of Pages: 21
    Last Modified: 04 Aug 2017 15:24
    URI: http://aei.pitt.edu/id/eprint/88102

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