ISSN:0019-8676    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-232X.1988.tb01042.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1988

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

Prior to recent contract negotiations, members of a very large United Steelworkers of America local union were asked to fill out a contract questionnaire regarding their preferences for various benefits and their willingness to strike to avoid making concessions. This paper reports the survey results and compares the members' pre‐contractual preferences with the actual negotiated settlemen

ISSN:0019-8676    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-232X.1988.tb01043.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1988

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

This study uses a laboratory experiment to examine empirically the effect of the mandatory permissive distinction on the negotiation of wages, employment guarantees, and advertising expenditures. Results suggest that negotiators spend more time bargaining over a smaller settlement range when an issue is mandatory than when it is permissive. Further, tentative findings provide no evidence that negotiators can circumvent the distinction through the use of tradeoffs across issues or bargaining power.

ISSN:0019-8676    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-232X.1988.tb01044.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1988

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

We analyze the salary portions of a multi‐state sample of police interest arbitration awards to determine what decision criteria (e.g., pay comparability, ability to pay, inflation) arbitrators' mention most frequently. Using the results, we construct measures of these criteria and assess their influence on awarded salaries. We find that arbitrated salaries are related to several of the measures and also to the employer and union salary offers. The parties' offers are also influenced by our measures, indicating that unions and employers attempt to strategically position their offers before the arbitrato

ISSN:0019-8676    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-232X.1988.tb01045.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1988

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

We use arguments from economics and industrial relations to help examine aspects of job satisfaction in the context of a changing industrial relations scene. Market comparisons and wage contours provide the strongest predictors of pay satisfaction. Results also suggest that workers in the “B” tier of two‐tier wage plans are in fact more satisfied with pay and that overall, workers are more satisfied with less supervision and more control over their

ISSN:0019-8676    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-232X.1988.tb01046.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1988

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

The history of employee attitude testing in American industry is presented as an example of how behavioral science has been used by management as a tool for solving industrial relations problems. Developed in the twenties, worker attitude surveys were widely used during the late thirties and after World War II to improve employee relations and employee loyalty. Problems associated with surveying, including the inexperience and naiveté of the survey takers, led industry to form close ties with academic behavioral scientists

ISSN:0019-8676    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-232X.1988.tb01047.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1988

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

This paper examines how unions affect the rate of productivity change. The direction of union impact cannot be predicted from economic theory. Firms may select either more productive technologies to offset higher union wages or less productive technologies to keep union wage demands in line. Evidence from manufacturing indicates that unions have not affected productivity growth; in construction, productivity growth has been much slower where there is a high initial level of unionization or where unionization is growing.

ISSN:0019-8676    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-232X.1988.tb01048.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1988

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

In this paper, we hypothesize that the general level of uncertainty can influence the level of strike activity. We test this hypothesis by considering the impact of inflation uncertain&on strike activity. Two databases are used: a pooled time‐series cross‐section sample of individual negotiations over the period 1971–1980, and quarterly data on negotiations from 1954 to 1980. Results from both data sets support the proposition that inflation uncertainty influences strike act

ISSN:0019-8676    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-232X.1988.tb01049.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1988

数据来源: WILEY