Clinging to collectivism? Some ethnographic shop-floor evidence from the British lock industry 1979-98

Article Abstract:

A study of the attitudes of union members over a 15-year period at Lockco, a traditional, highly unionized manufacturer of locks and keys in the West Midlands, England, gives a valuable insight into both continuity and discontinuity in shop-floor consciousness. This research provides some information about why the UK trade union movement was not eliminated by 20 years of hostile state policy. This company challenges many mainly pessimistic assumptions about the uniformity of social and cultural adaptations within companies to a changing ideological and material climate.

Labor organizations, Labor Unions, Labor Unions and Similar Labor Organizations, Case studies, Lockco

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British diversity professionals as change agents - radicals, tempered radicals or liberal reformers?

Article Abstract:

A study was conducted to examine the role of diversity professionals in the development and implementation of organizational equality and diversity policy. Diversity professionals in British organizations in the public and private sectors were used in the study. Findings show that diversity professionals used their positions to seek to influence organizational processes, culture, and outcomes.

Public affairs

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Illuminating a cross-cultural leadership challenge: when identity groups collide

Article Abstract:

A study was conducted to examine four potential leadership strategies that can be used to manage identity-based conflicts. These strategies are decategorization, recategorization, subcategorization, and crosscutting. Propositions are created to reflect the differences in the effectiveness of these strategies in collectivist and individualist cultures.

Methods, Conflict management

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