The Transformation Of American Industrial Relations

Author : Thomas A. Kochan,Harry C. Katz,Robert B. McKersie
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781501731693

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The Transformation of American Industrial Relations by Thomas A. Kochan,Harry C. Katz,Robert B. McKersie Pdf

Originally published in 1986, The Transformation of American Industrial Relations became an immediate classic, creating a new conceptual framework for understanding contemporary insutrial relations in the United States. In their introduction to the new edition, the authors assess the evolution of industrial relations and human resource practives, focusing particularly on the policy impoications of recent changes. They discuss the diverse forms of work restructuring in the American economy, the reasons why the diffusion of participatory work reorganization has been so modest, work practices among sophisticated nonunion employers, union membership declines, and public policy debates.

Author : Thomas A. Kochan,Harry Charles Katz,Robert B. McKersie
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0875463207

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The Transformation of American Industrial Relations by Thomas A. Kochan,Harry Charles Katz,Robert B. McKersie Pdf

Ch. 1. A Strategic Choice Perspective on Industrial Relations -- Ch. 2. Historical Evolution of the U.S. Collective Bargaining System -- Ch. 3. The Emergence of the Nonunion Industrial Relations System -- Ch. 4. Industrial Relations Systems at the Workplace -- Ch. 5. The Process and Results of Negotiations -- Ch. 6. Changing Workplace Industrial Relations in Unionized Settings -- Ch. 7. Union Engagement of Strategic Business Decisions -- Ch. 8. American Workers and Industrial Relations Institutions -- Ch. 9. Strategic Choices Shaping the Future.

Author : James Robert Chelius,James B. Dworkin
Publisher : Metuchen, N.J. : IMLR Press/Rutgers University : Scarecrow Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015018876246

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Reflections on the Transformation of Industrial Relations by James Robert Chelius,James B. Dworkin Pdf

The profound changes in the relationship between employers and employees during the 1980s have included increases in the extent of employee participation, declining unionization, wage restraint, concession bargaining, and labor management cooperation. These essays examine whether these significant changes constitute a fundamental transformation of the American system of industrial relations.

Author : Robert B. McKersie
Publisher : Cornell Publishing
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781501740022

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A Field in Flux by Robert B. McKersie Pdf

A Field in Flux chronicles the extraordinary journey of industrial and labor relations expert Robert McKersie. One of the most important industrial relations scholars and leaders of our time, McKersie pioneered the study of labor negotiations, helping to formulate the concepts of distributive and integrative bargaining that have served as analytical tools for understanding the bargaining process more generally. The book provides a window into McKersie's life and work and its impact on the evolution of labor and industrial relations. Spanning six decades, the reader learns about the intersection of labor and the Civil Rights movement, the watershed moment of the Air Traffic Controller's Strike, his relationship with George Schultz, the shift from labor relations to human resource management, and McKersie's role in the seminal cases (Motorola, GM, Toyota) of the labor movement. A Field in Flux serves two important functions: it demonstrates how people have influenced past employment policies and practices when called to action in critical situations, and it seeks to instill confidence in those who will be called on to address the big challenges facing the future of work today and in the years to come. During a time when the basic values of industrial relations are being challenged and violated, McKersie argues that the profession must adapt to the changing world of work and not forget about the value placed on efficiency, equity, and inclusive employment policies and practices.

Author : Harry C. Katz,Owen Darbishire
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781501731440

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Converging Divergences by Harry C. Katz,Owen Darbishire Pdf

Exploring recent changes in employment practices in seven industrialized countries (Australia, Britain, Germany, Italy, Japan, Sweden, and the United States) and in two essential industries (automobile and telecommunications), Harry C. Katz and Owen Darbishire find that traditional national systems of employment are being challenged by four cross-national patterns. The patterns, which are becoming ever more prevalent, can be categorized as low-wage, human resource management, Japanese-oriented, and joint team-based strategies. The authors go on to show that these changing employment patterns are closely related to the decline of unions and growing income inequality. Drawing upon plant-level evidence on emerging employment practices, they provide a comprehensive analysis of changes in employment systems and labor-management relations. They conclude that while the variation in employment patterns is increasing within countries, evidence suggests that there is much commonality across countries in the nature of that variation and also similarity in the processes through which variation is appearing. Hence the term "converging divergences."

Author : Harry Charles Katz,Thomas A. Kochan
Publisher : Irwin/McGraw-Hill
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Collective bargaining
ISBN : PSU:000051517298

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An Introduction to Collective Bargaining and Industrial Relations by Harry Charles Katz,Thomas A. Kochan Pdf

Covers key topics in industrial relations and collective bargaining using a conceptual framework based on the strategic, functional, and workplace levels. This book includes discussion on International and comparative labor relations, and reorganizations in the process and outcome of bargaining, including the participatory process.

Author : Bruce E. Kaufman
Publisher : Academic Foundation
Page : 760 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Industrial relations
ISBN : 8171885446

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The Global Evolution of Industrial Relations by Bruce E. Kaufman Pdf

Author : Howell John Harris
Publisher : Howell John Harris
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0299086402

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The Right to Manage by Howell John Harris Pdf

Author : Bruce E. Kaufman
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0875461921

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The Origins & Evolution of the Field of Industrial Relations in the United States by Bruce E. Kaufman Pdf

Bruce Kaufman provides a detailed exploration of the historical development of the field of industrial relations. He identifies two distinct schools of thought evident since the field's origins in the 1920s, one centered in the study of personnel management and the other in the study of institutional labor economics. The two schools advocate contrasting approaches to the resolution of labor problems. Kaufman traces their development from a golden age in the 1950s through a period of gradual decline that accelerated in the 1980s. He contends that, in the process, the field narrowed from a broad-based consideration of the employment relationship to a more limited focus on collective bargaining.

Author : Peter B. Doeringer
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Corporate reorganizations
ISBN : 9780195064612

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Turbulence in the American Workplace by Peter B. Doeringer Pdf

Turbulence--rapid and sometimes tumultuous changes--has characterized the labor markets of the 1970's and 1980's. Turbulent competitive conditions have cut sharply into profits and have forced downsizings and radical readjustments in America's workplaces. Workplace turbulence has resulted in lost jobs, declining incomes, and falling productivity for American labor. From the perspectives of business and labor, turbulence and its consequences is the key human resources issue for the last part of the twentieth century. In Turbulence in the American Workplace, a distinguished group of experts forcefully and convincingly argue that the human resources capacity of the private sector is the first line of defense against turbulence and is of equal importance to public sector education and training programs. The authors--including Kathleen Christensen, Patricia M. Flynn, Douglas T. Hall, Harry C. Katz, Jeffrey H. Keefe, Christopher J. Ruhm, Andrew M. Sum, and Michael Useem--effectively demonstrate how global competition, deregulation, and technological change are creating hard choices for employers that will alter both the living standards of workers and the performance of American industry in the coming decades. This illuminating work will be of significant value to business school faculty, corporate strategic planners, and general managers, as well as students and professionals interested in the areas of public policy, industrial relations, education, and labor studies.

Author : United States. Commission on Industrial Relations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1916
Category : Industrial relations
ISBN : UCAL:B4393258

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Final Report of the Commission on Industrial Relations by United States. Commission on Industrial Relations Pdf

Author : Harry C. Katz,Wonduck Lee,Joohee Lee
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781501731433

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The New Structure of Labor Relations by Harry C. Katz,Wonduck Lee,Joohee Lee Pdf

Tripartism—the national-level interaction among representatives of labor, management, and government—occurs infrequently in the United States. Based on the U.S. experience, then, such interactions might seem irrelevant to economic performance and policymaking. The essays in this volume reveal the falsity of that assumption. Contributors from eight industrialized countries (Australia, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Korea, the Netherlands, and the United States) examine the changing nature of labor-management relations, with a particular focus on the role of tripartism and the decentralization of collective bargaining. Although nonexistent in the United States and on the decline in Japan and Australia, tripartism flourishes in Germany, Ireland, and the Netherlands, expanding beyond traditional corporatist partners to include women's organizations, senior citizens, and other representatives of "civic society." The vibrancy of the coordinating mechanisms that help shape employment conditions and labor policy contradicts the traditional belief that an overpowering unilateral decentralizing shift is underway in labor-management interactions. The contributors show that these mechanisms are in fact increasing in the face of intensified pressures, promoting greater flexibility in work organization and working time.

Author : Lowell Turner,Harry C. Katz,Richard W. Hurd
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781501717185

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Rekindling the Movement by Lowell Turner,Harry C. Katz,Richard W. Hurd Pdf

From gloomy times in the 1980s, the American labor movement has returned to apparent prominence through the efforts of a new generation of energetic and progressive leaders. A distinguished group of authors examines this resurgence and the potential of American unions with sympathetic yet critical eyes. Experts from a wide variety of disciplines—industrial relations, political science, economics, and sociology—identify the central developments, analyze the strengths and weaknesses of the new initiatives, and assess the progress made and the prospects for the future. Though all agree on the importance of unions, their opinions of the success of current renewal efforts diverge greatly. The interdisciplinary and comparative approach of Rekindling the Movement is both challenging and enlightening. Rather than merely trumpeting pet opinions, contributors provide hard evidence and causal analysis, grounded in realistic perspectives, to back up suggestions for the improvement of the new labor movement. Their straightforward observations about what is and is not possible, what does and does not work, will be of great practical value for policymakers and union leaders.

Author : Harry Charles Katz,Thomas A. Kochan,Alexander James Colvin
Publisher : ILR Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Arbejdsret
ISBN : 1501713876

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An Introduction to U.S. Collective Bargaining and Labor Relations by Harry Charles Katz,Thomas A. Kochan,Alexander James Colvin Pdf

"Provides an introduction to collective bargaining and labor relations with a focus on developments in the United States"--

Author : Harry C. Katz,Thomas A. Kochan,Alexander J. S. Colvin
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780801455520

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Labor Relations in a Globalizing World by Harry C. Katz,Thomas A. Kochan,Alexander J. S. Colvin Pdf

Compelled by the extent to which globalization has changed the nature of labor relations, Harry C. Katz, Thomas A. Kochan, and Alexander J. S. Colvin give us the first textbook to focus on the workplace outcomes of the production of goods and services in emerging countries. In Labor Relations in a Globalizing World they draw lessons from the United States and other advanced industrial countries to provide a menu of options for management, labor, and government leaders in emerging countries. They include discussions based in countries such as China, Brazil, India, and South Africa which, given the advanced levels of economic development they have already achieved, are often described as "transitional," because the labor relations practices and procedures used in those countries are still in a state of flux. Katz, Kochan, and Colvin analyze how labor relations functions in emerging countries in a manner that is useful to practitioners, policymakers, and academics. They take account of the fact that labor relations are much more politicized in emerging countries than in advanced industrialized countries. They also address the traditional role played by state-dominated unions in emerging countries and the recent increased importance of independent unions that have emerged as alternatives. These independent unions tend to promote firm- or workplace-level collective bargaining in contrast to the more traditional top-down systems. Katz, Kochan, and Colvin explain how multinational corporations, nongovernmental organizations, and other groups that act across national borders increasingly influence work and employment outcomes.