Authored by a well-respected team in labor relations, "An Introduction to Collective Bargaining & Industrial Relations, 4/E" covers key topics in industrial relations and collective bargaining using a unique conceptual framework based on the three levels of industrial relations activity (strategic, functional, and workplace). Two extensive, class ...
"Managing for the Future" is an approach to teaching organizational behaviour based on the course at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The text's flexible design and its' experiential-based approach should make it an appealing choice for MBA students.
In this text, the authors identify the barriers that block true reform, and propose a "mutual gains policy framework" which emphasizes how management, labour and government need to engage in change together to achieve long-term viability. Their carefully-considered proposals, taken from the best practices of specific firms, state governments and ...
How to give working families the tools and opportunities to prosper in the new economy: a call to action for families, business, labour, and government. Many American families have not prospered in the new "knowledge economy." The layoffs, restructurings, and wage and benefit cuts that have followed the short-lived boom of the 1990s threaten our ...
The American labour market faces many deep-rooted problems, including persistence of a large low-wage sector, worsening inequality in earnings, employees' lack of voice in the workplace, and the need of employers to maximize flexibility if they are to survive in an increasingly competitive market. The impetus for this book is the absence of a ...
Human capital and organizational capital are icreasingly important as a source of value in many firms, yet at the same time employment practices appear to be changing in ways that reduce loyalty and commitment and encourage mobility on the part of employees. The essays presented in this volume provide new evidence of the degree to which job ...
The MIT Sloan School of Management, as conceived by General Motors chairman Alfred P. Sloan, was founded in 1952 to draw on the scientific and technical resources of MIT and approach the problems of management with the rigorous research practices for which MIT was famous. Fifty years later, the Sloane School gathered international leaders in ...
This is a contributed book on how organizations can and should adapt to global markets in a world economy. Its central argument is that merely changing parts of an organization will not be successful and that systemic changes across whole organizations will be required.
The last two decades of the twentieth century were a tumultuous time of innovation for business and labor. Perhaps the boldest and most far-reaching experiment in industry was the creation of the Saturn Corporation. Working together as partners, the UAW and General Motors built a new small car in Spring Hill, Tennessee, with American suppliers and ...
"This book has two main strengths. First, its approach gives a sense of the texture and variety of the implementation of lean production, the forces that shape it in practice, and the alternatives that may be available. Second, the book's international focus provides a wealth of fascinating material concerning the influence of national conditions ...
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Stanford University
Date Published: 1977
Description: Near Fine in red leather binding with gilt lettering covers. Dedication copy presented to Governor Ernest W. McFarland with two presentations, one from the senior article editor. Minimal cover edge wear, minimal stains lower spine edge. 8vo. 891-1124 pp. read more
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Securing Prosperity: The American Labor Market: How It Has C
