The Influences on Direct Communication in British and Danish Firms: Country, 'Strategic HRM' or Unionization?

dc.contributor.authorCroucher, R-
dc.contributor.authorGooderham, P-
dc.contributor.authorParry, Emma-
dc.date.accessioned2011-05-31T23:12:06Z
dc.date.available2011-05-31T23:12:06Z
dc.date.issued2006-11-01T00:00:00Z-
dc.description.abstractThis paper examines the antecedents of private sector managers’ propensity to communicate directly to employees in Britain and Denmark by use of largescale survey data. It tests Brewster’s (1995) argument that European HR managers are constrained in applying American versions of HRM and considers other theories suggesting that companies in the two countries would have different drivers of their communications practices. It is also relevant to ‘varieties of capitalism’ discussions of how national systems structure firm-level behaviours. It finds two antecedents for managers’ propensity to communicate directly, irrespective of country: whether the senior HR manager is involved in 3 strategy formation and the degree of unionisation. These are common to companies operating in both Britain and Denmark and it is therefore concluded that Brewster’s argument must to that extenten_UK
dc.identifier.citationRichard Croucher, Paul Gooderham, Emma Parry. The Influences on Direct Communication in British and Danish Firms: Country, ‘Strategic HRM’ or Unionization? . European Journal of Industrial Relations, Volume 12, Number 3 (November 2006), pp. 267-286,en_UK
dc.identifier.issn0959-6801-
dc.identifier.urihttp://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/1358
dc.language.isoen_UKen_UK
dc.publisherSage Publicationsen_UK
dc.titleThe Influences on Direct Communication in British and Danish Firms: Country, 'Strategic HRM' or Unionization?en_UK
dc.typeArticleen_UK

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