Developing Positive Employment Relations: International Experiences of Labour Management Partnership

Stewart Johnstone is Senior Lecturer in Human Resource Management at Newcastle University Business School, Newcastle University, UK. A major strand of Stewart’s research has been the dynamics of employee voice and participation in both union and non-union firms. In particular, his research has examined organizational attempts to develop collaborative workplace relations in pursuit of mutual gains, and assessed the outcomes of such workplace partnerships for employers, employees, and unions.

Adrian Wilkinson is Professor and Director of the Centre for Work, Organisation and Wellbeing at Griffith University, Australia. Adrian has authored/co-authored /edited twenty books and over one hundred and forty articles in academic journals. Adrian is also (co)Editor-in-Chief of the Human Resource Management Journal (HRMJ), a Fellow of the British Academy of Management, an Academican of the Academy of Social Sciences in the UK and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Social Sciences.