The quest for productivity: a case study of Fawley after Flanders
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| adam_text | Contents
List of tables page ix
Acknowledgements xi
1 Introduction 1
Background to the research 1
Fawley revisited: case study findings from the Blue Book to
1985 4
Research outline 8
2 The search for industrial relations strategy 11
Introduction 11
The rational approach 12
The rational approach and the reformist movement 13
The rational approach and recent industrial relations
debates on strategy 18
The rational approach and the radical school 20
The political approach 22
The symbolic approach 27
Conclusions 29
3 The nature and development of productivity bargaining in
Britain 30
Introduction 30
Productivity bargaining and the growth of the managerial
initiative in Britain 31
The definition of productivity bargaining 36
Productivity bargaining: a sub type of collective bargaining 36
Productivity bargaining in contrast to payment by results 37
Productivity bargaining in contrast to unilaterally imposed
change 39
Types of productivity bargaining 39
v
Contents
The comprehensive detailed type of productivity
agreement 39
The partial type of productivity agreement 40
The open ended type of productivity agreement 40
The framework type of productivity agreement 41
The evolution of productivity bargaining: 1960 1985 42
The first phase: 1960 1966 43
The second phase: 1967 1970 44
The third phase: 1977 1979 47
The fourth phase: 1981 1985 47
Conclusions 50
4 The control implications of productivity bargaining 55
Introduction 55
Increased management control by shifting from a half pay
and half effort strategy to a full pay and full effort strategy 55
Increased management control by shifting to a pluralist
strategy for joint control 59
Increased management control through greater formalization 65
Conclusions 66
5 Case study background 69
Introduction 69
Research methodology 69
Business environment: the oil industry in general 72
Business environment: the Exxon parent company and the
Esso U.K. refining operation 74
Refinery operations and industrial relations at Fawley 75
The Esso Fawley productivity agreements: 1960 1985 77
S The Fawley Blue Book revisited 80
Introduction 80
The historical origins of the Blue Book 82
The content of the Blue Book 84
Past evaluations of the Blue Book agreements in practice 86
Blue Book evaluation: case study findings, 1960 1967 89
Reduction of overtime 90
Elimination of mates 96
Progress in job flexibility 97
Other Blue Book objectives 102
The Blue Book workers objectives: higher pay, no
redundancy, fewer working hours 103
Assessment of results: economic, institutional and cultural 107
Contents
Economic results 107
Institutional results 110
Cultural results: changing attitudes towards change 113
Conclusions 113
7 Fawley s second generation productivity agreements:
1967 1971 116
Introduction 116
The process workers productivity deals: 1967, 1968 and 1970 116
The interim process shift agreement: October 1967 116
The process shift agreement: March 1968 121
The process agreement: May 1970 124
The maintenance productivity deals: 1968 and 1969 125
The Transport and General Workers Union (T.G.W.U.)
non craft maintenance workers deal: October 1968 125
The craft unions productivity deal: October 1968 126
1969 agreement covering both T.G.W.U. non craft and
craft maintenance workers 127
Conclusions 128
8 The 1970s and the advent of the open ended productivity
agreements 130
Introduction 130
The progressive approach agreement: April 1972 131
The 1975 maintenance deal: individuals working within
related groups 136
The process efficiency deal: 1975 142
The target approach agreement: March 1978 (subtitled
maintenance effectiveness measurement ) 144
Conclusions 146
9 Productivity bargaining in the 1980s: coping with the
recession 148
Introduction 148
The process productivity agreement: October 1981 149
The maintenance enabling agreement: March 1982 153
Addendum 158
Conclusions 158
10 Offshoots of productivity bargaining: the staff status
initiative and the increased use of contractor labour 160
Introduction 160
The growth of the staff status initiative 160
Contents
The compatibility of the staff status initiative with
productivity bargaining 167
The rationale and logic for Fawley s movement to staff
status 170
The growth of the contractor employment relationship 172
Why increase the use of contractor labour? 173
Problems associated with the use of contractor labour 176
Conclusions 179
1 The control implications of productivity bargaining
reconsidered ISO
Introduction 180
The dream of full pay /full effort; the strategy of labour
market internalization 180
Increased management control through the pluralist based
strategy for joint control 187
Control over workers through the formalization of rules 191
Conclusions 195
I Problems with operating a rational strategy: the
relevance of the political approach 197
Introduction 197
Problems of design 197
Problems of negotiation 200
Problems of implementation 202
Problems of day to day operation 207
Conclusions 210
I The perpetuation of productivity bargaining: the
relevance of the symbolic approach 211
Introduction 211
Productivity bargaining as a symbol for the management of
uncertainty and crisis 213
Productivity bargaining: the management of impressions 216
Productivity bargaining and careerism 222
Conclusions 229
Conclusions 230
Bibliography 234
Index 241
Tables
1 Productivity provisions negotiated in the late 1970s U.K. page 49
2 History of productivity bargaining in the U.K., 1960 1985 54
3 Reduction of overtime under the 1960 agreements 92
4 Labour and equipment costs before and after the Blue Book 109
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