Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/102338 
Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 8441
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This paper uses a linked employer-employee dataset, the National Employment Survey, to examine the determinants of organisational change and employee resistance to change and, specifically, to examine the influence of employee inflexibility on the implementation of firm-level policies aimed at increasing competitiveness and workforce flexibility. Key finding arising from the research is that while workforce resistance to job-related change often forces firms to seek alternative means of achieving labour flexibility, there appears little that firms can do to prevent such resistance occurring. The presence of HRM staff, consultation procedures, wage bargaining mechanisms, bullying and equality polices etc were found to have little impact on the incidence of workforce resistance to changes in job conditions.
Subjects: 
workforce resistance
organisational change
linked employer-employee data
JEL: 
J31
J51
J53
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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