Managing employment on greenfield sites: attempts to replicate high commitment practices in the UK and New Zealand

Citation

Hallier J & Leopold J (2000) Managing employment on greenfield sites: attempts to replicate high commitment practices in the UK and New Zealand. Industrial Relations Journal, 31 (3), p. 177–191. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2338.00156

Abstract
Greenfield sites have been seen as the most favourable setting for the adoption of HRM-style high-commitment work practices. We present a comparative study of Scottish and New Zealand greenfield employers' attempts to replicate a highcommitment philosophy. After outlining the proprietary recipes of the organisations, we analyse a number of factors that threatened or undermined the practice of the philosophy and show how managers continued to rely on the language of high-commitment by repackaging and re-presenting the same philosophy.

Journal
Industrial Relations Journal: Volume 31, Issue 3