Roger Undy
British industrial relations scholar
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Roger Undy was a British industrial relations scholar and academic. Life and career Undy was born on 2 November 1938 in Nottingham into a Labour-supporting, non-conformist, working-class family who were often trade unionists; his father Harold was a fitter and his mother Harriet was a housewife. Undy failed the Eleven-plus examination and attended Huntingdon Street secondary modern school before leaving aged 15 to become an apprentice fitter. He worked at the Boots factory in Nottingham from 1954, where he was an active trade unionist , and completed City and Guilds and production engineering qualifications with the support of his employer. He successfully applied for a Trades Union Congress scholarship to Ruskin College, Oxford, and completed a two-year diploma in social studies there in 1969. He then spent three years at Wadham College, Oxford, as an undergraduate, and left with a Bachelor of Arts degree in history and economics in 1972. He then joined the Oxford Centre for Management Studies as a research associate and in 1975 became a research fellow; he was then a fellow in industrial relations from 1977 to 1980 and again from 1983 onward , at the same time that the centre became Templeton College, Oxford. He subsequently served as Dean , Vice-President and Acting President of the college. In 1994, he was also appointed a University Lecturer at the Saïd Business School, where he subsequently became a reader in management studies. Undy retired in 2011, but remained with the Saïd Business School as an emeritus reader. Undy died on 18 April 2022, at the age of 83.
Roger Undy's Published Works
Published Works
- New Labour's Industrial Relations Settlement: The Third Way (1999) (60)
- Managing the Unions (1996) (44)
- Change in Trade Unions (2022) (44)
- Employee perspectives on communication and consultation: findings from a cross-national survey (2004) (41)
- Change in trade unions : the development of UK unions since the 1960s (1981) (39)
- Ballots and trade union democracy (1984) (30)
- Managing the Unions: The Impact of Legislation on Trade Unions' Behaviour (1996) (28)
- Trade Union Merger Strategies (2008) (24)
- The decollectivisation of trade unions? Ballots and collective bargaining in the 1980s (1991) (20)
- Review of Beardwell IJ (Ed), Contemporary Industrial Relations: A Critical Analysis, Oxford University Press (1997) (20)
- Mergers and Union Restructuring: Externally Determined Waves or Internally Generated Reforms? (1996) (17)
- Negotiating Amalgamations: Territorial and Political Consolidation and Administrative Reform in Public-Sector Service Unions in the UK (1999) (17)
- New Labour and New Unionism, 1997‐2001: but is it the same old story? (2002) (13)
- The Impact of the National Minimum Wage on the Apparel Industry (2002) (11)
- Trade Union Merger Strategies: Purpose, Process, and Performance (2008) (11)
- Politics, Pragmatism and Ideology: The ‘Wellsprings’ of Conservative Union Legislation (1979–1992) (1993) (9)
- The British merger movement: the importance of the ‘aggressive’ unions (1999) (7)
- THE ELECTORAL INFLUENCE OF THE OPPOSITION PARTY IN THE A.U.E.W. ENGINEERING SECTION 1960–75 (1979) (7)
- Ballots and Union Government in the 1980s (1993) (7)
- The TUC: From the General Strike to New Unionism (2001) (6)
- The legislative reform of union government 1979-94 (1995) (5)
- Trade Union Organisation (2015) (4)
- Recent merger movements and future union structure (1985) (4)
- Trade unions and the employment relationship (2003) (4)
- Battered by the winds of change (1996) (3)
- Employee Relations Audits (2017) (3)
- Industrial relations procedures and agreements : by John Muir, Gower Publishing, Aldershot, Hants, UK. £16.50 (1984) (2)
- Union Autonomy, a Terminal Case in the UK? A Comparison with the Approach in Other European Countries and the USA (1993) (2)
- An Overview of Bill Mccarthy's Academic and Political Engagement with Industrial Relations (2015) (2)
- 3. Research into the Management of Employee Relations at Templeton College, Oxford (1986) (2)
- Managers and Industrial Relations: The Identification of Training Needs (1983) (2)
- The devolution of bargaining levels & responsibilities in the Transport & General Workers Union 1965–75* (1978) (2)
- The power of the ballot box: balloting at Eng Co (1992) (2)
- Review of Taylor R, The TUC: From the General Strike to New Unionism, Palgrave (2001) (2)
- Nature and Purpose of the Study (2008) (1)
- British Trade Unions' Strategies in a Hostile Environment 1980-1993 (1996) (1)
- The Making of UNITE the Union: The Dynamics of Amalgamation (2018) (1)
- The Management of Change in Employee Relations (1988) (1)
- Union Autonomy in Context: An International Comparison (1993) (1)
- Trade Union Democracy: Union Government and Union Democracy (1985) (1)
- The Devolution of Bargaining Levels and Responsibilities in the TCWU. 1965-75 (1978) (1)
- Trade Union Mergers: Causes & Consequences (1993) (1)
- Review of Clinton A, Post Office Workers: A Trade Union Social History, Allen and Unwin, 1984 (1985) (1)
- Review of Kerr, C and Staudohar, PD (Eds), Industrial Relations in a New Age, Sage, 1986 (1988) (0)
- Cross-national approaches to employee participation: Causes and consequences (2001) (0)
- Union Strategies in Context (2008) (0)
- Ballots, Elections, and Union Government (1996) (0)
- Mergers: Good or Bad for Unions? (2008) (0)
- A case study of the formation of a white-collar print union chapel in a large print and packaging company in the 1960s, and the subsequent struggle for union recognition (2010) (0)
- The Academic and Business Case for Statute XII (2014) (0)
- Seminar Report: Future of Work and Pensions: Extended Working Life (2003) (0)
- UK—Exemplar or Exceptional Case? (1996) (0)
- Seminar Report, Future of Work and Pensions: The New Regulatory Approach (2003) (0)
- Changing Union Behaviour (1996) (0)
- Trade unions in a hostile environment (1992) (0)
- Legislation and the Election of Union Moderates (1983) (0)
- Employee views on information and consultation (1999) (0)
- Ballots and Industrial Action (1996) (0)
- Review of Gallie D, Penn R, Rose M (Eds), Trade Unionism in Recession, Oxford University Press, 1995 (1996) (0)
- The Legislative Reform of Union Government (1993) (0)
- Seminar Report, Future of Work and Pensions: Tax and Savings (2003) (0)
- The Scope and Structure of the Study (1996) (0)
- Book Reviews (2004) (0)
- Transfers: Post‐Merger Performance (2008) (0)
- Changing the Merger Strategies of Trade Unions. Case Study. (2015) (0)
- The Union Context (1996) (0)
- Trade Union Ballots and Collective Bargaining in the 1980s (1990) (0)
- Review of D'art D, Economic Democracy and Financial Participation, Routledge, 1992 (1992) (0)
- The Legislative Reform of Union Government, 1979–93 (1993) (0)
- The industrial relations training needs of NHS managers. (1985) (0)
- Chris Wrigley, British Trade Unions since 1933 (2003) (0)
- Amalgamations: Post‐Merger Performance (2008) (0)
- Employment Relations: From Industrial Relations to Human Resource Management (2008) (0)
- Union Ballots, Behaviour, and Strategy (1996) (0)
- Book Reviews (2002) (0)
- Equality of Opportunity (2017) (0)
- Britain at Work: Union Organization: 1945-1995 (2012) (0)
- Politics, Pragmatism and Ideology : The Well Springs of Conservative Union Legislation (1993) (0)
- Conservative Policy and Legislation (1996) (0)
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