Industrial Relations And Economic Performance

Conference papers on labour relations and economic development in developing countries - includes the role of the government in industrial relations, sources and functions of trade union leadership, wage policy, collective bargaining, participation of interest groups (unions and employers) in economic planning, and income distribution under workers participation in management. Bibliography. Conference held in Geneva 1964 aug 24 to September 4.

This volume contains the proceedings of a conference held to assess the current state of the analysis of the labour market and of industrial relations and their relationship to economic performance.

Proceeding from the insight that markets and rational economic action perform best if embedded in culturally and politically generated opportunities and constraints, Streeck offers a rationale for positive political intervention in post-socialist capitalist market economies.

Comprises 16 chapters subsumed under four major subject areas: unions, collective bargaining and dispute resolution; human resources management; labour market research; and the regulation of labour- management relations

Excerpt from Industrial Relations Performance, Economic Performance and the Effects of Quality of Working Life Efforts: An Inter-Plant Analysis In recent years industrial relations researchers have stressed the need to move beyond simple union/nonunion comparisons to examine the diversity in results obtained under collective bargaining in different settings. Accompanying this view has been a call to draw on more micro level (firm or establishment) data in order to achieve a better understanding of the variety of effects that collective bargaining processes and outcomes exert on the goals of individual workers and their employers. Driving these arguments is the need to assess the performance of industrial relations systems and practices at the workplace and the results of change strategies designed to improve their performance. While these ideas have been evolving within the research community, a number of companies and unions have been experimenting with new strategies for improving the performance of their bargaining relationships at the plant level through what generally have been labeled "quality of working life" (QWL) efforts. The common thread running through these efforts is that they attempt to go beyond traditional union-management activities such as arms-length negotiations, formal and informal grievance handing, and union-management committees on specific topics. Instead, QWL programs try to establish direct channels of communication between workers and their supervisors and involve workers in shop floor decision-making and through this process improve both organizational effectiveness and the psychological rewards workers obtain from their jobs. These QWL programs hold the potential for significantly altering the conduct of U.S. industrial relations in unionized plants. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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