Labor Relations: Striking a Balance (COLLEGE IE OVERRUNS) - Softcover

Budd, John W.

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9780071105217: Labor Relations: Striking a Balance (COLLEGE IE OVERRUNS)

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ISBN 10: 0071105212 ISBN 13: 9780071105217

Publisher: McGraw Hill, 2009

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Labor Relations: Striking a Balance, 1st Edition, by John Budd presents labor relations as a system for striking a balance between the employment relationship goals of efficiency, equity, and voice, and between the rights of labor and management. Budd's Labor Relations broadens the narrow process focus of existing labor relations texts by placing the discussion of contemporary U.S. processes into the context of underlying themes - what are the goals of labor relations, are those goals being fulfilled, and are reforms needed. This textbook replaces the tired paradigm of "labor relations equals detailed work rules" with the dynamic paradigm of "labor relations equals balancing workplace goals and rights." Labor law, union organizing, bargaining, dispute resolution, and contract administration are central topics, but these processes are not presented as self-evidently good. These topics are placed in the broader context of the goals of the employment relationship, conflicting rights, and the environment of the 21st Century. This broader context serves to make labor relations more engaging and relevant to students. It also allows instructors to raise important "big picture" ideas while covering the applied business functions and strategies of the existing processes..

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About the Author:

John W. Budd is a professor in the Industrial Relations Center at the University of Minnesotas Carlson School of Management where he holds an Industrial Relations Landgrant Professorship. Professor Budd has taught labor relations to undergraduates, professional Masters students, and Ph.D. candidates and has received multiple teaching awards. He is the author of The Thought of Work (Cornell University Press), Employment with a Human Face: Balancing Efficiency, Equity, and Voice (Cornell University Press),and Invisible Hands, Invisible Objectives: Bringing Workplace Law and Public Policy into Focus (with Stephen Befort, Stanford University Press), the coeditor of The Ethics of Human Resources and Industrial Relations (with James Scoville, Labor and Employment Relations Association), and has published numerous journal articles relating to work, labor relations, and conflict resolution. Professor Budd has been the director of the University of Minnesotas Center for Human Resources and Labor Studies, and has also served as director of graduate studies for Minnesotas graduate program in human resources and industrial relations.

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