Human Resource Development and Workplace Governance in the Caribbean

Preliminary sections

• Abbreviations
• Preliminary Sections
• Foreword
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction

Part 1

• Rethinking Fundamental Relationships in Caribbean Human Resource Development
• Human Resource Development: The Challenges of Health, Education and Employment Relations in the Caribbean
• Globalisation, Work and Regional Integration

Part 2

• Education Training and the New Workplace: Some Introductory Remarks
• Visioning the Future: Human Resource Management, Information Technology and Higher Education
• Learning to Learn: the Caribbean Citizen-worker in the Twenty-first Century
• Infusion of Technology in Education: Issues and Challenges for the Caribbean
• Globalisation and Labour Market Transformation: Implications for Women's Human Resource Development in Jamaica
• Health Related Behaviours of Youth: Implications of National Development
• Managing the Ageing Workforce: Some Insights from the Jamaican Experience
• Human Resource Management: Implications of an Ageing Population

Part 3

• Markets, Collective Bargaining and Legislation: A Comparison
• From Industrial Relations to Human Resource Management: A Case Study of Trinidad and Tobago
• Public Policy and Consensus Building in the Caribbean Workplace: Barbados
• Forks in the Road: Workplace Governance and the Global Marketplace
• Managing a Kinder, Gentler World of Work: Emotional Labour and Workplace Governance
• Industrial Disputes and Work Stoppages in the Commonwealth Caribbean: An Empirical Analysis

Part 4

• Trade Unions and the Transformation to a New Caribbean Workplace: Confronting the Challenges of Globalisation
• Multilateral Worker Protection in an Era of Footloose Capital
• Globalisation and the Role of Trade Union Movement
• New Management Practices and the Challenge for Trade Unions in the Advanced Industrial Economies
• Semi-institutionalisation in Non-union Industrial Relations: Challenges and Opportunities for Labour

Part 5

• Labour Law in the New Globalised Environment and the Failure of the Voluntary Model
• Labour Law and Statutory Arbitration in the Caribbean
• Voluntarism, Political Unionism and the Regulation of Industrial Relations in Jamaica
• The Jamaican Labour Relations and Industrial Disputes Act (LRIDA): A Critical Assessment
• Labour Law, Statutory Arbitration and the Termination of Employment: Exercising Rights Rightly
• Notes on Contributors
• Index