37 research outputs found
Reforming Public School Systems Through Sustained Union-Management Collaboration
Presents case studies of sustained collaboration between teachers' unions and management in school reform; common elements in initiating events, strategic priorities, supportive system infrastructure, and sustaining factors; and lessons learned
Collective Bargaining and High-Involvement Management in Comparative Perspective: Evidence from U.S. And German Call Centers
Institutional Labor Economics, the New Personnel Economics, and Internal Labor Markets: A Reconsideration
The author illustrates the utility of institutional labor economics and makes a case for a reconsideration of it. Two recent developments motivate this effort: the rise of New Personnel Economics (NPE) as a significant subfield of labor economics and the substantial shifts in work organization that have taken place since the 1990s. Understanding how and why firms have reorganized work opens the door for a renewed interest in institutional approaches. The author explains that the rules of institutional labor markets (ILMs) emerge from the competition between organizational interest groupsâunions, personnel professionals, and the governmentâand competing views of firmsâ objectivesâresulting in the rise of ILMs, the slow diffusion of High Performance Work Systems, strategies used to obtain a high level of commitment from workers, the use of contingent employees, and the spread of new promotion rules in response to equal employment opportunity pressures. As such, the role of power and influence in establishing work rules is of central concern, though more conventional NPE considerations also remain important
Saturn, the GM/UAW partnership : the impact of co-management and joint governance on firm and local union performance
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1996.Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-240).by Saul Avery Rubenstein.Ph.D