MANCHESTER INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS SOCIETY
Programme of Meetings 1990-91
Thursday 11 October 1990 6pm
Arthur Priest Memorial Lecture
British Rail - Facing the Future
Paul Watkinson
Director Employee Relations, British Rail
Thursday 19 November 1990, 6pm
Whatever Happened to Industrial Relations?
Douglas Smith
Chairman, ACAS
Thursday 24 January 1991, 6pm
Trade Unions in a Period of Change
John Edmonds
General Secretary, GMB
Thursday 14 February 1991, 6pm
Joint Meeting with Industrial Law Society
Labour Law in the 1990s
Professor Keith Ewing
Kings College, London
Thursday 14 March 1991, 6pm
Union in the 1990s
Garfield Davies
General Secretary, USDAW
Thursday 25 April 1991, 6pm
Performance Pay Revisited
Peter Johnson
Distribution Director, Bass North
Thursday 19 May 1991, 6pm
Shirley Lerner Memorial Lecture
Industrial Relations: Challenges & Opportunities
Professor Keith Sisson
Director, Industrial Relations Research Unit, University of Warwick
All meetings take place in the Main Lecture Theatre, Manchester Polytechnic, Aytoun Street, Manchester (opposite front entrance of Piccadilly railway station)
Programme of Meetings 1991-92
Thursday 17 October 1991 6pm*
Reflections on a National Minimum Wage
Professor Sir John Wood
Sheffield University
Thursday 14 November 1991, 6pm
Arthur Priest Memorial Lecture
The Japanisation of British Industrial Relations
Dr Clive Morton
Senior Fellow, Policy Studies Institute
Director, Kamatsu UK
Thursday 16 January 1992, 6pm
Trade Unions & the Media in the 1990s – Problems & Prospects
John Foster
National Organiser, National Union of Journalists
Thursday 13 February 1992, 6pm
Joint Meeting with Industrial Law Society
Making Changes to Contracts of Employment
John Hand, QC
Thursday 19 March 1992, 6pm
Changes in Industrial Relations in the NHS
Roger Poole
Assistant General Secretary, NUPE
Thursday 14 May 1992, 6pm
Shirley Lerner Memorial Lecture
Trade Unions & Productivity – An Overview
Professor Peter Nolan
Leeds University
*Meeting takes place in Staff House Conference Centre, Room4/5 3rd Floor, UMIST
All meetings take place in the Main Lecture Theatre, Manchester Polytechnic, Aytoun Street, Manchester (opposite front entrance of Piccadilly railway station)
Programme of Meetings 1992-93
Thursday 15 October 1992 6pm
Performance Related Pay Schemes in Practice
Professor Derek Torrington
UMIST
Thursday 19 November 1992, 6pm
Arthur Priest Memorial Lecture
How Managers Should Approach Industrial Relations in the 1990s
Michael Judge
Director- Peugeot Talbot
Thursday 21 January 1993, 6pm
Towards 2000 - Union Strategies for Change
Roger Lyons
General Secretary- Manufacturing, Science & Finance
Thursday 11 February 1993, 6pm
Joint Meeting with Industrial Law Society
Issues in Collective Labour Law
Richard Lister
Legal Adviser to EEF
Thursday 18 March 1993, 6pm
EC Social Policy – Current Issues
J Ten Geuzendam
European Commission
Thursday 13 May 1993, 6pm
Shirley Lerner Memorial Lecture
From Donovan Till Now: 25 Years of Incomes Policy, 1968-93
Lord McCarthy
Nuffield
All meetings take place in the Main Lecture Theatre, Manchester Polytechnic, Aytoun Street, Manchester (opposite front entrance of Piccadilly railway station)
Programme of Meetings 1993-94
Thursday 21 October 1993 6pm
Arthur Priest Memorial Lecture
The Case for Super-Unionism
Alan Jinkinson
General Secretary of UNISON
Thursday 18 November 1993, 6pm
Changing Workplace Industrial Relations
Neil Millward
Senior Fellow, Policy Studies Institute
Thursday 9 December 1993, 6pm
Nissan, Japanisation & the Workplace Union Response
Paul Stewart
Lecturer in HRM, Cardiff Business School
Thursday 20 January 1994, 6pm
Restructuring and Industrial Relations in the Public Services
David Abrahams, Director of NW Local Authorities Employers’ Organisation
Bill Berry, UNISON Associate Regional Secretary, NW and N Wales Region
John Lyons, Regional Personnel Manager, North Western Regional Health Authority
Thursday 24 February 1994, 6pm
Joint Meeting with Industrial Law Society
Industrial Action and the Law
Professor Gillian Morris
Department of Law, Brunel University
Thursday 17 March 1994, 6pm
The Economy, Government & Industrial Relations
Will Hutton
Economics Editor, The Guardian
Thursday 28 April 1994, 6pm
Business Ethics & Employee Relations
Ken Lewis
Executive Director, Group Resources, The Co-operative Bank
Thursday 19 May 1994, 6pm
Shirley Lerner Memorial Lecture
Women, Employment & Discrimination
Professor Linda Dickens
Industrial Relations Department, University of Warwick
All meetings take place in the Main Lecture Theatre, Manchester Metropolitan University, Aytoun Street, Manchester (opposite front entrance of Piccadilly railway station)
Programme of Meetings 1994-95
Thursday 20 October 1994 6pm
Arthur Priest Memorial Lecture
The Management of Change
Frank Sharp
Director of Human Resources (Europe), Ilford
Thursday 17 November 1994, 6pm
Industrial Relations in Public Services
Professor Roger Seifert
Centre for Industrial relations, University of Keele
Thursday 6 December 1994, 6pm
European Works Councils & the Social Charter: For or Against?
John Edmonds, GMB General Secretary (for)
Robbie Gilbert, CBI Director of Affairs (against)
Thursday 19 January 1995, 6pm
Part-time Work and the Future of Employment
Olive Robinson
Industrial Fellow, Kingston Business School
Thursday 16 February 1995, 6pm
The Future Direction of Trade Unionism
John Monks
TUC General Secretary
Thursday 9 March 1995, 6pm
Joint Meeting with Industrial Law Society
Substituting Arbitration for Industrial Tribunals?
Professor Roy Lewis
Department of Law, University of Southampton
Thursday 18 May 1995, 6pm
Shirley Lerner Memorial Lecture
What has Workplace HRM Achieved?
Professor David Metcalf
Industrial Relations Department, London School of Economics
All meetings take place in the Main Lecture Theatre, Manchester Metropolitan University, Aytoun Street, Manchester (opposite front entrance of Piccadilly railway station)
Programme of Meetings 1995-96
All meetings take place in the Main Lecture Theatre, Manchester Metropolitan University, Aytoun Street, Manchester (opposite front entrance of Piccadilly railway station)
All meetings take place in the Main Lecture Theatre, Manchester Metropolitan University, Aytoun Street, Manchester (opposite front entrance of Piccadilly railway station)
All meetings take place in the Main Lecture Theatre, Manchester Metropolitan University, Aytoun Street, Manchester (opposite front entrance of Piccadilly railway station)
All meetings take place in the Main Lecture Theatre, Manchester Metropolitan University, Aytoun Street, Manchester (opposite front entrance of Piccadilly railway station)
