The Labour Market For Professional Engineers

Research report on labour market trends for engineers in Australia in the 1970s and 1980s - outlines the historical development of the engineering occupation; discusses the career patterns, annual income, higher education, further training, management development and labour mobility of engineeers, incl. A model of university enrolment; examines factors affecting labour supply and labour demand, internal labour markets and enterprise level adjustments to labour shortage; includes employment policy issues. References, statistical tables.

Working paper on internal labour market adjustment in engineering enterprises from 1979-1982 in Australia - describes the research methodology and several economic models of market behaviour; examines personnel management strategy and mechnisms (incl. Wages, work organization and recruitment) according to size of enterprise; also considers the adjustment experience of consultant firms. Questionnaire, references, statistical tables.

The old certainties and structures of employment relations no longer exist. Compared with the 'golden age' of labour in the mid-twentieth century, work and employment are more precarious, employers are increasingly hostile to trade union negotiations, and the share of wages in national income is falling. Large-scale employers, in turn, are using sophisticated people-management techniques to motivate workers with person-centred, performance-driven and reward-based processes. Drawing on a range of international data, this comparative text demonstrates that whilst employment relations phenomena are nationally embedded, international market forces are compelling employers to compete in product markets by reducing labour costs, terms and conditions of employment, and job security for their workforces. In an age of transnational globalisation and free-market national economic policies, this textbook provides penetrating cross-national, cross-disciplinary and theoretical analyses of the changing structures of employment relations around the world. Key benefits: - Provides critical analyses of changing patterns of employment relations in the early twenty-first century, drawing upon global, comparative and theoretical perspectives. - Examines the changing faces of the subject in terms of academic disciplines, methodological underpinnings, and institutional, cultural and historic settings. - Integrates industrial relations literature with recent studies of the HRM paradigm.

Report on labour market experiences of engineers in the USA, with particular reference to trends since the mid-1960's - covers unemployment, job searching and retraining, public sector employment service programmes to aid reemployment, etc., and includes human resources planning recommendations. Bibliography pp. 55 to 60.

This book represents an advance in our knowledge of the labour market. For the first time it combines the analysis of both quantitative and qualitative data to produce an explanation of the main changes which have transformed the labour market during the recession. For the first time it demonstrates the segmented character of the youth labour market and the significance of the local labour markets. The result is a substantial contribution to labour market segmentation theory and to the analysis of social policy in this field.

This is a new and completely revised edition of the successful text published in 2000 entitled Core Management. The book provides excellent coverage of the CIPD syllabus for three core areas of the CIPD syllabus. New end of chapter website links are included. The text is written in an easy-to-read style and each chapter is linked to other relevant parts of the book.