When union strategy meets business strategy: The union voucher at Axa

Union Strategy, Membership Orientation & Union Effectiveness: an Exploratory Analysis School of Industrial Relations and Organisational Behaviour

Recognizing Union-Find Trees Built Up Using Union-By-Rank Strategy is NP-Complete

Disjoint-Set forests, consisting of Union-Find trees, are data structures having a widespread practical application due to their efficiency. Despite them being well-known, no exact structural characterization of these trees is known (such a characterization exists for Union trees which are constructed without using path compression) for the case assuming union-by-rank strategy for merging. In t...

Union Structure and Strategy in Australia and Canada

THE AIM OF THIS PAPER is to compare the experiences of Australian and Canadian unions during die 20th century. This comparison reveals many more similarities than differences. The similarities are best understood within a framework developed by Ross Martin. He identifies five types of national trade union movements based on the relationship between unions, the state, and political parties: part...

Union strategy and structure in a decentralised environment: An exploratory study of the Community and Public Sector Union

Union strategy and structure in a decentralised environment: An exploratory study of the Community and Public Sector Union Michael O’Donnell, John O’Brien* and Anne Junor* Australian National University and The University of New South Wales* The paper examines the strategic and organisational responses of the union covering Australian Public Service (APS) employees, the Community and Public sec...

Cultural implications of business strategy-making

The central issue in strategy formulation and implementation process, or strategy-making, is the identification of environmental forces and the preparation of a plan of action to deal with them. This necessitates scanning the environment for gathering information. Environmental scanning should enable the firm to identify these forces. Doing this not only calls for information gathering, but als...