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Written by a renowned author team, this book treats HR strategy as an essential element in business strategy, whilst integrating a vast range of relevant research and theory. Now in its fourth edition, it continues to challenge academics, students and practitioners to approach HRM from a strategic perspective.

Drawing on analysis of 2004 and 2011 WERS data and extensive case studies of employee consultation bodies, this paper highlights major problems with the regulatory design and enforcement of the Information and Consultation of Employees Regulations 2004 and advocates reforms to improve their effectiveness in promoting and embedding meaningful consultation arrangements. Crucially, under the current regulations, the support of 10 per cent of the workforce is necessary for employees to initiate the statutory procedures. But union engagement with the legislation has been limited, and only rarely have non-union employees self-organised to trigger their consultation rights. The regulations have therefore proved peripheral, leaving wide scope for management inaction or unilateralism, and for unenforceable and sub-standard consultation arrangements. Key amendments proposed include lowering or preferably abolishing the workforce support threshold for triggering the regulations, integrating unions into the legal framework and applying minimum standards to voluntary agreements. The May 2015 election result means that there is little or no prospect government support for such changes during the current parliament. While moves underway at EU level may lead to some regulatory reform in this area, its implications for the UK will depend on the outcome of the upcoming renegotiation of the UK's relationship with the EU and referendum on continued UK membership.

The Mexican state is based on a constantly renewed bargain among several ruling groups and interests representing a broad range of ideological tendencies and social bases. Mexican political stability rests primarilynotupon formal institutions, but upon the interaction of principles of political discipline (closely linked to the concept of authoritarianism) and political negotiation (associated with the concept of proto-democracy). The combination of repression and co-optation with just the "right" mix of responsiveness and compromise produces: (1) elites that are both linked to, and insulated from, their potential constituencies; (2) a pattern of political and administrative decision making called "policy incoherence"; and (3) avoidance of the crystallization of factional alliances, and their opposition to one another.