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Enterprise Bargaining: The Truth Revealed at Last

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  • Malcolm Rimmer
  • Lee Watts

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This paper is a selective review of recent Australian research upon enterprise bargaining and workplace industrial relations. It begins with a discussion of data collection methods, pointing out some strengths and weaknesses of survey, case study, and agreement text analysis methods. It then focusses upon two substantive issues to test the success of research. The first concerns the infrastructure for enterprise bargaining. Our conclusion is that research illuminates this topic, and reveals general unreadiness. The second issue is productivity performance and enterprise bargaining. We are far more sceptical that research has proved a relation between the two. We conclude with the observation that researchers may be on the wrong track if they try to quantify the effects of enterprise bargaining on productivity performance. The paper recommends that greater attention be given to change management programmes designed to increase competitiveness, and to the outcomes sought from these, rather than to productivity.

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  • Malcolm Rimmer & Lee Watts, 1994. "Enterprise Bargaining: The Truth Revealed at Last," The Economic and Labour Relations Review, , vol. 5(1), pages 62-80, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:ecolab:v:5:y:1994:i:1:p:62-80
    DOI: 10.1177/103530469400500108
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    1. Yi-Ping Tseng & Mark Wooden, 2001. "Enterprise Bargaining and Productivity: Evidence from the Business Longitudinal Survey," Melbourne Institute Working Paper Series wp2001n08, Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, The University of Melbourne.
    2. Joanne Loundes & Yi‐Ping Tseng & Mark Wooden, 2003. "Enterprise Bargaining and Productivity in Australia: What do We Know?," The Economic Record, The Economic Society of Australia, vol. 79(245), pages 245-258, June.
    3. Kim Langfield-Smith & Dagmara Madden, 1998. "Productivity and Performance Indicators in Enterprise Agreements," Australian Accounting Review, CPA Australia, vol. 8(16), pages 33-42, November.
    4. Iain Campbell & Peter Brosnan, 1999. "Labour Market Deregulation in Australia: The slow combustion approach to workplace change," International Review of Applied Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 13(3), pages 353-394.

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