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>An examination of union-management contracts to determine the degree to which the parties have negotiated explicit employee involvement programs in unionized settings: An analysis of the auto, grocery, health services, paper, steel, and telecommunications industries.
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An examination of union-management contracts to determine the degree to which the parties have negotiated explicit employee involvement programs in unionized settings: An analysis of the auto, grocery, health services, paper, steel, and telecommunications industries.
In the past two decades, there has been extensive discussion about employee involvement and labor-management cooperation at the American workplace. However, little is known about the extent to which various employee involvement programs have been adopted in union-management contracts and actually implemented in unionized settings.; In order to gain a better understanding of these issues, this dissertation examines: (1) the extent to which employee involvement programs have been adopted in contracts; (2) the degree of the actual implementation of these codified programs at the workplace; and (3) the relationship between explicit labor-management cooperative efforts expressed in a contract and the codification of a specific employee involvement program in the contract.; For the first and the third questions, a contract analysis is conducted on union-management contracts in the auto, grocery, health services, paper, steel, and telecommunications industries, which are maintained in the Bureau of Labor Statistics. For the second question, the survey is distributed to both union and management sides of each contract in the sample.; The research findings suggest that labor-management cooperative efforts and various employee involvement programs have been negotiated and codified in contracts to a varying degree. Generally, except for various joint labor-management committees that are codified in contracts to a very high degree, the scale and scope of the codification of most types of employee involvement programs are not extensive. However, once codified in contracts, more than three-fourths of programs have been actually implemented at the workplace. Also, it was found that where a collective bargaining contract contains language expressing 'strong' commitment to labor-management cooperation, there is a much higher probability that employee involvement programs would be included in the contract.; Based on these findings, several suggestions to remove various barriers to the successful adoption of labor-management cooperative efforts and employee involvement programs are offered at both micro and macro levels. This dissertation will provide an additional resource for both labor and management when they negotiate and adopt various types of employee involvement programs under relevant circumstances.
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