Geoffrey Wood

Industrial Relations in Africa Geoffrey Wood

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Biographical Note: GEOFFREY WOOD is Professor in HRM, in the School of Management at the University of Sheffield, UK, and Overseas Associate of the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa. His current research interests centre on the systematic testing and development of contemporary institutional theory in the light of large-scale survey evidence, and the practice of industrial relations in emerging markets. CHRIS BREWSTER is Professor of International Human Resource Management at Henley Management College in the UK. He had substantial experience in trade unions, Government, specialist journals, personnel management in construction and air transport, and consultancy, before becoming an academic twenty years ago. He has conducted extensive research in the field of international and comparative HRM; and published over twenty books and more than a hundred articles. Table of Contents: Introduction * PART ONE: COUNTRY STUDIES * Ghana--G. Frazer * Kenya: The Changing Political Economy and Industrial Relations in Practice--T. Fashoyin * Zimbabwe--L. Sachikonye * Botswana--T. L. Seleke * Uganda--J. Kirenga * Nigera--M. Oyelere * Eritrea; L. Karsten & P. Ghebregiorgis * Malawi--L. B. Dzmbiri * Nambia--G. Klerck * Mozambique--E. Webster & G. Wood * South Africa: COSATU and the democratic transition in South africa: the first 10 years--S. Buhlungu * South Africa: Theories of Social Unionism and the South African case--P. Dibben * PART TWO: GENERAL ISSUES * Industrial Relations in Francophone Africa - A Review--R. Croucher * The African Experience in Comparative Perspective--C. Brewster * Cross Continental Trends and Issues--F. Horwitz * Theoretical Implications--C. Brewster--G. Woog & I. RoperPublisher Marketing: Industrial Relations in Sub-Saharan Africa provides an overview on the state and nature of industrial relations in tropical and southern Africa, encompassing theoretical and comparative perspectives and country studies. Contributors include some of the leading experts in the field, many based at African universities. They provide insights into the underlying causes of both individual national traditions and practices, and continent-wide trends.

Contributor Bio:  Wood, Geoffrey Pauline Dibben is Senior Lecturer in Human Resource Management at the Middlesex University Business School. Geoffrey Wood is Professor of Comparative Human Resource Management at Middlesex University. Ian Roper is a Lecturer in Human Resource Management at the Middlesex University Business School. Contributor Bio:  Brewster, Chris Chris Brewster is Professor of International Human Resource management at Cranfield School of Management in the UK. He is also Director of the School's Centre for European HRM and has substantial experience in trade unions, Government, specialist journals, personnel management and consultancy prior to joining Cranfield. In addition to his teaching role, Professor Brewster has acted as a consultant to UK and international organisations mainly in the areas of personnel policies (the subject of his PhD) and management training. He has consulted and taught on managment programmes through the world and is a frequent international conference speaker. Henrik Holt Larsen is associate Dean and Professor, dr. merc. of Human Resource Management at the Institute of Organization and Industrial Sociology, Copenhagen Business School. His major research interests are careers, organization and management development, training and performance appraisal systems. He is the coordinator of the HRM Master's Degree Program at the Copenhagen Business School. He is also the Danish memeber of the executive board of CEMS (Community of European Management Schools) and the CBS coordinator of EHRM (a Master Program of European HRM, established by leading business schools in England, Germany, France, Spain, Belgium, Sweden, Greece and Denmark).