Toward a mutual gains paradigm for labor-management relations
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The Commission on the Future of Worker Management Relations has been established to suggest ways of updating the national labor policies. The new policies will have to be based on past experiences but encourage innovations that will explore new areas. Labor-management policies can benefit both parties if they are based on an analytical foundation, are practical and are linked to macroeconomic conditions. Government should update laws like the National Labor Relations Act but more importantly should be a catalyst in a change of attitude. The Commission can be productive if all the parties involved engage in meaningful dialogue.
Publication Name: Labor Law Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0023-6586
Year: 1993
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Empowerment of employees - private sector models in public education
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'Total quality management' is the best way of empowering employees. In a workplace structured this way goals, statistics and facts are communicated to all levels of the hierarchy. Given this information, employees are trusted to make decisions as well as management. Employee empowerment can be modeled as a four-part matrix with abdication, heroics, autocracy and aligned empowerment occupying the four spaces. Abdication refers to a workplace dominated by bureaucracy and heroics to one where employees make their own decisions according to individual goals and criteria.
Publication Name: Labor Law Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0023-6586
Year: 1992
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'The Player Piano' and 'The Bell Curve': employment, compensation, and public policy at the Millennium
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The modern US offers the means to ensure relative prosperity for everyone but that goal also demands political will and consensus that now seems lacking. Instead, as the book 'The Bell Curve' attempts to justify, resentment divides the country, divided economically as much by luck and privilege as by a narrowly measured IQ. Contemporary society and its evolution over the past 45 years are analyzed with reference to both 'The Bell Curve' and Kurt Vonnegut Jr's 'The Player Piano.'
Publication Name: Labor Law Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0023-6586
Year: 1995
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