Hailed by the New Grove Dictionary of Music (2nd edition) as "the most original and far-ranging theorist of his generation," David Lewin (1933-2003) explored for over four decades how composers in the German tradition set poetry and drama to music. He conceived Studies in Music with Text as a unified collection, reproducing papers on music by Mozart, Schubert, Wagner, Schoenberg, and Babbitt, many of which have become classics in the fields of music theory and historical musicology. He also included new analytical essays on Mozart, Wagner, and Schubert, and provided fresh...

The "Human Resource Management Handbook" is divided into seven sections, compiling the latest knowledge into the critical areas of human resource management practices. Part one of the "Human Resource Management Handbook" primarily focuses on employee participation. It covers the financial and non financial aspects of employee anticipation; including voluntary and involuntary aspects of the decision making.

Part two of the "Human Resource Management Handbook" provides further insight into the theory and research processes of human resource management practices. In this volume, the handbook focuses on employer flexibility; discussing the rise of contingent employment, unions and collective bargaining as well as the workplace dispute resolution; covering rights disputes and employment relationships.

Part three of the "The Human Resource Management Handbook" expands on the latest human resource management practices, giving insight into the staffing and reward processes; selection processes and training, as well as the external environmental issues affecting the human resource management function.

This volume presents five studies on key dimensions of union-management relations. Topics examined include union representation, financial consequences of unionism, wage determination, workplace innovation and conflict resolution in unionized enterprises in North America. In addition, the volume features four papers that examine university degree programmes in human resource management and industrial relations and, in particular, the extent to which the programmes provide students with the skills and competencies currently in demand by employers.

This volume contains papers dealing with topics such as the effects of company unions on wages, the effects of labour market regulation on hiring standards, coalition bargaining at General Electric, cooperative labour-management partnerships in the steel industry, the union commitment of adjunct faculty, the effects of union political outreach on union members political perceptions, preferences and voting behaviour, reinterpretation of new labour historians differences with old labour historians, and newly discovered lecture notes by industrial relations scholar Sumner Slichter that detail...

Advances in Industrial and Labor Relations (AILR) continues to receive high quality submitted manuscripts and to publish the best among these, as determined by double blind anonymous refereeing. Volume 13 of AILR contains eight papers dealing, respectively, with European responses to high unemployment rates; the effects of alternative types of staffing arrangements; the adoption and use of alternative dispute resolution procedures in the nonunion workplace; the implications of organizational ombuds arrangements for voice, conflict resolution and fairness at work; building and sustaining...

Volume 14 of Advances in Industrial and Labor Relations (AILR) contains 10 papers dealing, respectively, with HR versus finance in the control of corporate health care decisions; a theory of workplace conflict grounded in U.S. municipal collective bargaining; creative compliance in, or union defiance of, labor regulation in Australia; the extent to which union organizing means determine bargaining ends; the failure of labor-manangement cooperation at two Maine (U.S.) paper mills; the interplay between union and non-union representation arrangements at Eurotunnel; challenges to and prospects...

In Contemporary Issues in Industrial Relations, a large and diverse group of contributors provides a new thematic treatment of key employment relations issues. These topics include: collective bargaining, worker disability, the return to work...

This handbook contains up-to-date knowledge in critical areas of human resource management, including employee financial and nonfinancial participation in the enterprise, employer flexibility, unions, collective bargaining and workplace dispute resolution, the human resource function, and the changing industrial environment. Leading scholars in the field are the authors of the book's 27 chapters, which is intended for use by both academics and practitioners. A key focus of the book is the extent to which human resource practices, such as team-based work, variable pay arrangements and...