Employment Relations on Major Construction Projects: The London 2012 Olympic Construction Site

TitleEmployment Relations on Major Construction Projects: The London 2012 Olympic Construction Site
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2013
AuthorsDruker, Janet, and White, Geoffrey
JournalIndustrial Relations Journal
Volume44
Issue5-6
Pagination566 - 583
Keywordsbuilding trades, construction, employee relations, employment relations
Abstract

The construction of the London 2012 Olympic Park provided a model of employee relations that crossed organizational boundaries. This model was countercultural, contrasting with the unregulated approaches that are commonplace in construction and contrasting too with collaborative models that have been developed on other major projects.