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Browsing ILR School by Type "conference papers and proceedings"
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A Changing World of Workplace Conflict Resolution and Employee Voice: An Australian Perspective
(2017-11-06)The authors contribute to dispute resolution theory and provide new insights on such important issues as employee voice, workplace disputes and employees’ intentions to quit. They conducted and analyzed a survey of managers ... -
A KM-Based Strategic, Global Current Awareness Service
(2011-08-17)This presentation focuses on a global current awareness service designed to meet the knowledge needs of the institution from which it originates. In so doing, it also meets the needs of journalists, researchers, faculty, ... -
ADR-based Workplace Conflict Management Systems: A Case of American Exceptionalism
(2017-11-01)[Excerpt] The diffusion of ADR-based conflict management systems is a development increasingly highlighted in the literature. Organizations are seen as putting in place multiple procedures and practices so that different ... -
Advancing Dispute Resolution by Unpacking the Sources of Conflict: Toward an Integrated Framework
(2017-09-30)Organizational leaders, public policy makers, dispute resolution professionals, and scholars have developed diverse methods for resolving workplace conflict. But there is inadequate recognition that the effectiveness of a ... -
American Trade Unions and NAFTA
(1994-04-01)[Excerpt] The move to cheap labor and unregulated enterprise abroad puts an individual firm in an advantageous competitive position. But in the aggregate, this movement creates conditions for global economic stagnation. ... -
Avant-garde Welfare Capitalism: Corporate Welfare Work and Enlightened Capitalism in Great Britain, the US, Germany and France (1880-1930)
(2014-11-14)This research paper deals with welfare work in four industrializing countries, Great Britain, the USA, Germany and France, in the half century of flowering enlightened paternalistic capitalism between 1880 and 1930. Welfare ... -
Barriers to Union Organizing
(1992-12-09)[Excerpt] The current environment presents dramatic challenges for the American labor movement. Structural change in the economy has meant job loss in traditionally unionized sectors such as heavy manufacturing, and job ... -
Buffalo Child Care Means Business: PowerPoint Presentation
(2006-11-16)This is the slide show which accompanied the presentation of the results of the study, Buffalo Child Care Means Business. The presentation was given on November 16, 2006. -
Comment on "What Collective Bargaining Promises and What it Does"
(1976-01-01)[Excerpt] There can be no disagreement with Professor Jensen's position that a belief in freedom is at the heart of our commitment to collective bargaining. These comments are a footnote to what he says about institutional ... -
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Conflict Resolution and the Transformation of the Social Contract
(2007-01-01)[Excerpt] Here is my argument in a nutshell. Beginning more than thirty years ago, the social contract that had governed relations between workers and employers in the United States for the period following World War II ... -
Decision-Maker and Context Effects in Employment Arbitration
(2017-11-01)Using a novel survey of 284 employment arbitrators, this study investigates how decision-maker characteristics and the context of the arbitration proceeding affect employee outcomes. We analyze the predictors of settlement ... -
Disputant Preferences for Mediated or Adjudicated Processes in Administrative Agencies: The Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission Settlement Part Program
(2017-11-01)Previous research examining disputants’ preferences for mediation over more formal adjudicative proceedings is limited and mostly experimental. Moreover, this work has not examined preferences in relation to repeated ... -
Dispute Resolution in the Changing Workplace
(2004-01-01)For the past seven years, the authors of this paper have been conducting research on the use of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) (particularly in employment disputes) by major U.S. corporations (Lipsky and Seeber 1998a, ... -
Do it Right or Not at All: A Longitudinal Evaluation of a Conflict Managment System Implementation
(2017-11-01)We analyzed an eight-year multi-source longitudinal data set that followed a healthcare system in the Eastern United States as it implemented a major conflict management initiative to encourage line managers to consistently ... -
Effects of Social Security Reforms: An Empirical Life Cycle Model for the United States
(1985-01-01)[Excerpt] The system of publicly-provided old age pensions, known in the United States as "Social Security," faces serious financial difficulties. As in other countries, the problems are of both a short run and a long run ... -
From Opportunity to Status
(1976-01-01)[Excerpt] When Ronald Knox, at the age of four, was asked what he did for his insomnia, he replied, "I lie awake and think about the past." I suspect that even the future celebrated biblical scholar did not, at the age of ... -
Grievance Procedures and the Democratization of American Life
(1976-01-01)[Excerpt] No institution in the nation's history has struggled so long and so valiantly for the democratization of American life as the organized labor movement. Decade after decade, trade unionists have fought for human ... -
Higher Education and Labor Relations
(1976-01-01)I have been asked to comment in a field in which I am a novice, namely that of arbitration. I have only recently taken vows in that order and remain still very humble in the company of those already long accepted into the ...
