John Godard
Biographic Data
| ID | 3590433 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Godard |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Godard |
| SIGNATURE | GODARD J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Manitoba |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 73 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Varieties of Capitalism and Job Quality: The Attainment of Civic Principles at Work in the United States and Germany
This article explores how institutional differences matter to the quality of a nation's jobs; job quality is conceived as a dimension of a national economy's social performance and thus defined in accordance with civic principles. Focus is on the two archetypical varieties of capitalism, the United States and Germany. Using data from a 2009 telephone survey of U.S. and German workers, we find that the overall attainment of civic principles, as pe…
Cross‐National Variation in Representation Rights and Governance at Work
This article focuses on the differences between the United States and Germany. These two nations are viewed as representative of distinctive varieties of capitalism, and they have very different representation rights and institutional norms accounting for these varieties. The contribution of this article is to address the reasons for this variation and why it persists in view of such pressures. It begins by briefly describing cross-national diffe…
The Exceptional Decline of the American Labor Movement
This paper adopts a historical/new institutionalist perspective to explain why the decline of the American labor movement has been exceptional in comparison to other labor movements, and especially its Canadian counterpart. Under this perspective, national founding conditions and traditions become embedded in institutional norms that shape national institutional environments and trajectories, substantially constraining labor movements and hence a…
Institutional Environments, Work and Human Resource Practices, and Unions: Canada versus England
This analysis of data from a 2003-2004 telephone survey of 750 Canadian and 450 English workers finds that work practices and human resource (HR) practices had important implications for unions. The effects differed by the type of practice (for example, traditional versus "new" HR), and were mediated by each country's institutional environment. For example, traditional personnel/HR practices were strongly positively related to the likelihood of u…
Pacs Seven Years on: Is it Moving Towards Marriage
The French government has recently taken advantage of the reform of the law of succession (June 23, 2006) to reform the Pacte civil de solidarité which allows for a form of civil partnership between two adults (same sex and opposite sex) and provides a legal status for their relationship. The introduction of Pacs in 1999 was controversial but since then it has become popular, mainly with heterosexual couples. Gradually same-sex couples are being …
Unions, Work Practices, and Wages under Different Institutional Environments: The Case of Canada and England
Using data collected in 2003-2004 in national telephone surveys of 750 Canadian and 450 English workers, the author finds that alternative work practices (AWPs), such as autonomous teams, quality circles, and information sharing, provided meaningful pay gains for non-union workers but not union workers in both Canada and England. In Canada, non-union AWP payoffs approached union wage premia at even moderate levels of AWP adoption, suggesting that…
A Critical Assessment of the High‐Performance Paradigm
This paper assesses research on the effects of high‐performance systems on employer, worker and union outcomes. It concludes that, compared with what has long been thought of as good management practice, claims that these systems yield superior performance outcomes may be unwarranted, and their implications for both workers and unions are at best uncertain. Conventional explanations for these findings are found to be insufficient. Alternative exp…
Labour Unions, Workplace Rights and Canadian Public Policy
This paper addresses the future of labour unions and of workplace rights as they pertain to Canadian public policy. I argue that the established policy regime has unduly limited the purview of unions and the rights and protections afforded workers, and that unions are becoming increasingly marginalized under it. After then considering various alternatives, I argue for a "good practice" paradigm, one that relies less on formal certification and co…
On the Paradigm Guiding Industrial Relations Theory and Research: Reply to Thomas A. Kochan
Reply to Kochan, Thomas A., On the Paradigm Guiding Relations Theory and Research: Comment on John Godard and John T. Delaney, 'Reflections on the High Performance Paradigm's Implications for Relations as a Field.' Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Vol. 53, No. 4 (July), pp. 704-11. (Author's abstract.)
High Performance and the Transformation of Work? The Implications of Alternative Work Practices for the Experience and Outcomes of Work
Using data from a 1997 telephone survey of 508 employed Canadians, the author explores the implications for workers of alternative work practices (AWPs) associated with the high-performance model. There are three main findings. First, moderate levels of AWP adoption were associated with increased "belongingness," empowerment, task involvement, and ultimately job satisfaction, esteem, commitment, and citizenship behavior. At higher levels of adopt…
Reflections on the "High Performance" Paradigm's Implications for Industrial Relations as a Field
Over the past decade, several leading U.S. scholars have advanced a new industrial relations paradigm, according to which “high performance” work and human resource management (HRM) practices have replaced unions and collective bargaining as the innovative force in industrial relations. Although this model fundamentally challenges the traditional focus of the field of industrial relations in the United States, research on it has centered on the d…
Unions and Public Policy: The New Economy, Law and Democratic Politics
Introduction Unions and Policy Problems by Lawrence G. Flood Workers in the New Economy Piecing Together the Fragmented Workplace: Unions and Public Policy on Flexible Employment by Francoise Carre, Virginia duRivage, and Chris Tilly The Team Concept and the New Global Economy by Stan Luger Policy Issues in the Economy Corporate Restructuring and the Decline of American Unionism by John Russo Forays in Finance: Developments in Labor and Capital b…
The Political Economy of Control: An Organizational Theory of Structural Inequality
This article argues that the structural inequality literature lacks a theoretical logic capable of rivaling that of its neoclassical counterpart, and that this, rather than its empirical veracity, has served as the major barrier to its broader acceptance. Accordingly, this article attempts to develop an analytical theory that both provides an alternative logic and can be demonstrated empirically. To do so, it argues (in essence) that the main con…
Strikes as Collective Voice: A Behavioral Analysis of Strike Activity
This paper outlines a "collective voice" approach for examining the behavioral determinants of variation in strike activity at the organizational level. The author argues that strikes should be viewed primarily as expressions of worker discontent rather than a result of imperfect or asymmetrical information. An analysis of survey data collected from 112 Canadian firms in 1980-81 indicates that managerial practices, operations size and technology,…
High Performance and the Transformation of Work? The Implications of Alternative Work Practices for the Experience and Outcomes of Work
Using data from a 1997 telephone survey of 508 employed Canadians, the author explores the implications for workers of alternative work practices (AWPs) associated with the high-performance model. There are three main findings. First, moderate levels of AWP adoption were associated with increased "belongingness," empowerment, task involvement, and ultimately job satisfaction, esteem, commitment, and citizenship behavior. At higher levels of adopt…
Institutional Environments, Work and Human Resource Practices, and Unions: Canada versus England
This analysis of data from a 2003-2004 telephone survey of 750 Canadian and 450 English workers finds that work practices and human resource (HR) practices had important implications for unions. The effects differed by the type of practice (for example, traditional versus "new" HR), and were mediated by each country's institutional environment. For example, traditional personnel/HR practices were strongly positively related to the likelihood of u…
Varieties of Capitalism and Job Quality: The Attainment of Civic Principles at Work in the United States and Germany
This article explores how institutional differences matter to the quality of a nation's jobs; job quality is conceived as a dimension of a national economy's social performance and thus defined in accordance with civic principles. Focus is on the two archetypical varieties of capitalism, the United States and Germany. Using data from a 2009 telephone survey of U.S. and German workers, we find that the overall attainment of civic principles, as pe…
The Exceptional Decline of the American Labor Movement
This paper adopts a historical/new institutionalist perspective to explain why the decline of the American labor movement has been exceptional in comparison to other labor movements, and especially its Canadian counterpart. Under this perspective, national founding conditions and traditions become embedded in institutional norms that shape national institutional environments and trajectories, substantially constraining labor movements and hence a…
Reflections on the "High Performance" Paradigm's Implications for Industrial Relations as a Field
Over the past decade, several leading U.S. scholars have advanced a new industrial relations paradigm, according to which “high performance” work and human resource management (HRM) practices have replaced unions and collective bargaining as the innovative force in industrial relations. Although this model fundamentally challenges the traditional focus of the field of industrial relations in the United States, research on it has centered on the d…
Strikes as Collective Voice: A Behavioral Analysis of Strike Activity
This paper outlines a "collective voice" approach for examining the behavioral determinants of variation in strike activity at the organizational level. The author argues that strikes should be viewed primarily as expressions of worker discontent rather than a result of imperfect or asymmetrical information. An analysis of survey data collected from 112 Canadian firms in 1980-81 indicates that managerial practices, operations size and technology,…
Unions, Work Practices, and Wages under Different Institutional Environments: The Case of Canada and England
Using data collected in 2003-2004 in national telephone surveys of 750 Canadian and 450 English workers, the author finds that alternative work practices (AWPs), such as autonomous teams, quality circles, and information sharing, provided meaningful pay gains for non-union workers but not union workers in both Canada and England. In Canada, non-union AWP payoffs approached union wage premia at even moderate levels of AWP adoption, suggesting that…
Pacs Seven Years on: Is it Moving Towards Marriage
The French government has recently taken advantage of the reform of the law of succession (June 23, 2006) to reform the Pacte civil de solidarité which allows for a form of civil partnership between two adults (same sex and opposite sex) and provides a legal status for their relationship. The introduction of Pacs in 1999 was controversial but since then it has become popular, mainly with heterosexual couples. Gradually same-sex couples are being …
Strikes as Collective Voice: A Behavioral Analysis of Strike Activity
This paper outlines a "collective voice" approach for examining the behavioral determinants of variation in strike activity at the organizational level. The author argues that strikes should be viewed primarily as expressions of worker discontent rather than a result of imperfect or asymmetrical information. An analysis of survey data collected from 112 Canadian firms in 1980-81 indicates that managerial practices, operations size and technology,…
The Political Economy of Control: An Organizational Theory of Structural Inequality
This article argues that the structural inequality literature lacks a theoretical logic capable of rivaling that of its neoclassical counterpart, and that this, rather than its empirical veracity, has served as the major barrier to its broader acceptance. Accordingly, this article attempts to develop an analytical theory that both provides an alternative logic and can be demonstrated empirically. To do so, it argues (in essence) that the main con…
Unions and Public Policy: The New Economy, Law and Democratic Politics
Introduction Unions and Policy Problems by Lawrence G. Flood Workers in the New Economy Piecing Together the Fragmented Workplace: Unions and Public Policy on Flexible Employment by Francoise Carre, Virginia duRivage, and Chris Tilly The Team Concept and the New Global Economy by Stan Luger Policy Issues in the Economy Corporate Restructuring and the Decline of American Unionism by John Russo Forays in Finance: Developments in Labor and Capital b…
Reflections on the "High Performance" Paradigm's Implications for Industrial Relations as a Field
Over the past decade, several leading U.S. scholars have advanced a new industrial relations paradigm, according to which “high performance” work and human resource management (HRM) practices have replaced unions and collective bargaining as the innovative force in industrial relations. Although this model fundamentally challenges the traditional focus of the field of industrial relations in the United States, research on it has centered on the d…
High Performance and the Transformation of Work? The Implications of Alternative Work Practices for the Experience and Outcomes of Work
Using data from a 1997 telephone survey of 508 employed Canadians, the author explores the implications for workers of alternative work practices (AWPs) associated with the high-performance model. There are three main findings. First, moderate levels of AWP adoption were associated with increased "belongingness," empowerment, task involvement, and ultimately job satisfaction, esteem, commitment, and citizenship behavior. At higher levels of adopt…
On the Paradigm Guiding Industrial Relations Theory and Research: Reply to Thomas A. Kochan
Reply to Kochan, Thomas A., On the Paradigm Guiding Relations Theory and Research: Comment on John Godard and John T. Delaney, 'Reflections on the High Performance Paradigm's Implications for Relations as a Field.' Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Vol. 53, No. 4 (July), pp. 704-11. (Author's abstract.)
Labour Unions, Workplace Rights and Canadian Public Policy
This paper addresses the future of labour unions and of workplace rights as they pertain to Canadian public policy. I argue that the established policy regime has unduly limited the purview of unions and the rights and protections afforded workers, and that unions are becoming increasingly marginalized under it. After then considering various alternatives, I argue for a "good practice" paradigm, one that relies less on formal certification and co…
A Critical Assessment of the High‐Performance Paradigm
This paper assesses research on the effects of high‐performance systems on employer, worker and union outcomes. It concludes that, compared with what has long been thought of as good management practice, claims that these systems yield superior performance outcomes may be unwarranted, and their implications for both workers and unions are at best uncertain. Conventional explanations for these findings are found to be insufficient. Alternative exp…
Pacs Seven Years on: Is it Moving Towards Marriage
The French government has recently taken advantage of the reform of the law of succession (June 23, 2006) to reform the Pacte civil de solidarité which allows for a form of civil partnership between two adults (same sex and opposite sex) and provides a legal status for their relationship. The introduction of Pacs in 1999 was controversial but since then it has become popular, mainly with heterosexual couples. Gradually same-sex couples are being …
Unions, Work Practices, and Wages under Different Institutional Environments: The Case of Canada and England
Using data collected in 2003-2004 in national telephone surveys of 750 Canadian and 450 English workers, the author finds that alternative work practices (AWPs), such as autonomous teams, quality circles, and information sharing, provided meaningful pay gains for non-union workers but not union workers in both Canada and England. In Canada, non-union AWP payoffs approached union wage premia at even moderate levels of AWP adoption, suggesting that…
The Exceptional Decline of the American Labor Movement
This paper adopts a historical/new institutionalist perspective to explain why the decline of the American labor movement has been exceptional in comparison to other labor movements, and especially its Canadian counterpart. Under this perspective, national founding conditions and traditions become embedded in institutional norms that shape national institutional environments and trajectories, substantially constraining labor movements and hence a…
Institutional Environments, Work and Human Resource Practices, and Unions: Canada versus England
This analysis of data from a 2003-2004 telephone survey of 750 Canadian and 450 English workers finds that work practices and human resource (HR) practices had important implications for unions. The effects differed by the type of practice (for example, traditional versus "new" HR), and were mediated by each country's institutional environment. For example, traditional personnel/HR practices were strongly positively related to the likelihood of u…
Cross‐National Variation in Representation Rights and Governance at Work
This article focuses on the differences between the United States and Germany. These two nations are viewed as representative of distinctive varieties of capitalism, and they have very different representation rights and institutional norms accounting for these varieties. The contribution of this article is to address the reasons for this variation and why it persists in view of such pressures. It begins by briefly describing cross-national diffe…
Varieties of Capitalism and Job Quality: The Attainment of Civic Principles at Work in the United States and Germany
This article explores how institutional differences matter to the quality of a nation's jobs; job quality is conceived as a dimension of a national economy's social performance and thus defined in accordance with civic principles. Focus is on the two archetypical varieties of capitalism, the United States and Germany. Using data from a 2009 telephone survey of U.S. and German workers, we find that the overall attainment of civic principles, as pe…
Political science (13 works) · Economics (12 works) · Labor Movements and Unions (12 works) · Law (10 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (8 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Business (5 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (5 works) · Work (physics) (5 works) · Law (4 works)