Joint Consultation in Britain: Towards an Explanation

Abstract

Joint consultation has had a checkered history during the last 50 years. Both in the Second World War and in the late 1940s, consultative committees were widespread in manufacturing companies. Many observers of the industrial relations scene at that time based their great optimism for post war industrial relations in Britain on the efficacy of joint consultation. Subsequently, joint consultation came to be regarded as a failure and as in a state of decline due to the growth of workplace bargaining. In the course of the last three or four years, the results of several surveys have been published which cast light on current arrangements and have led to claims of a renaissance in joint consultation.

Citation

Joyce, P. and Woods, A. (1984), "Joint Consultation in Britain: Towards an Explanation", Employee Relations, Vol. 6 No. 2, pp. 2-8. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb055028