Tonight is my first class for MGT 4223 – Labor Management Relations. Welcome to all my students!
Feel free to comment on any post you find interesting (I know, I know, that’s probably none of the posts – please expand your definition of “interesting” to include something here). As I say in the syllabus, in lieu of quizzes (which are probably a bigger pain for me than they are for you) I will post at least a couple of times a week a question or two out of the readings and you are expected to comment at least once per week on a post. You don’t HAVE to comment on the topics from the text and I’ll be most impressed if you can work in something you read to one of the current event posts.
The first thing I’d like to get your thoughts on comes from our text, John Budd’s Labor Relations: Striking a Balance (a great book with a somewhat unfortunate title). In Chapter 1, on page 7 there is a section called “The Objectives of the Employment Relationship” where professor Budd discusses three objectives of the employment relationship: efficiency, equity and voice. These form the foundation of professor Budd’s analysis of our topic.
Do you agree that efficiency, equity and voice encompass the core aspects of the employment relationship? Why or why not?
What other objectives might there be to employment?
Do you think any of the three (or more) objectives are more important than any other? How would you evaluate conflicts between the three?
