Employment with a human face
Subtitle: balancing efficiency, equity, and voice
By: John W. Budd.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Ithaca
Language: eng
Number of pages: 263
Subjects: Industrial relations
Description: "Budd proposes a fresh set of objectives for modern democracies - efficiency, equity, and voice - and supports this new triad with an intellectual framework for analyzing employment institutions and practices. In the process, he draws on scholarship from industrial relations, law, political science, moral philosophy, theology, psychology, sociology, and economics and advances debates over free markets, globalization, human rights, and ethics. He applies his framework to important employment-related topics, such as workplace governance, the New Deal industrial relations system, comparative industrial relations, labor union strategies, and globalization. These analyses create a foundation for reforming employment practices, social norms, and public policies. In the book's final chapter, Budd advocates the creation of the field of human resources and industrial relations and explores the wider implications of this renewed conceptualization of industrial relations."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-255) and index.
Table of contents: title: The objectives of the employment relationship; title: The balancing imperative : human rights in conflict; title: Balancing outcomes : the environment and human agents; title: Balancing outcomes revisited : the ethics of the employment relationship; title: The balancing alternatives : workplace governance; title: The new deal industrial relations system; title: The geometry of comparative industrial relations; title: Alternatives to job control unionism; title: Balancing the global workplace.