Labor Relations: Striking a Balance - Hardcover

Budd, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0078029430 ISBN 13: 9780078029431

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education, 2012

Synopsis

John Budd continues to present the most dynamic, engaging approach to understanding labor relations in the 21st century with Labor Relations, 4/e. This textbook presents labor relations as a system for balancing employment relationship goals (efficiency, equity, and voice) and the rights of labor and management. By weaving these themes with the importance of alternative perspectives on the nature of the employment relationship throughout the text, students can learn not only how the traditional labor relations processes work, but also why these processes exist and how to evaluate whether they are working. In this way, students can develop a deeper understanding of labor relations that will help them successfully navigate a contemporary labor relations system that faces severe pressures requiring new strategies, policies, and practices.

About this title

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0078029430
• ISBN 13: 9780078029431
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 576