The Future Of Employee- Employer Relations

Overview: This paper seeks to initiate a discussion of the challenges facing the future of employeeemployer relations in the United States. It takes a very broad perspective to the task, one that reflects the expanded domain of issues, activities, and parties that must be considered if employee relations are to contribute to the twin challenges facing the American economy and workforce: The need to improve long term economic competitiveness while simultaneously improving our standards of living.Several alternative models of employee relations and organizational governance are evaluated for their potential for encouraging and sustaining these innovations. These models share several key features. First, they expand the domain of employee relations to include the strategic level of corporate decision-making and organizational governance processes. Second, they all seek to elevate the importance of human resource considerations and employees as stakeholders in corporate strategy and governance. Third, they encourage employee participation and representation for both distributive and integrative employment relations issues (Walton and McKersie, 1965). Fourth, they break out of the isolationism characteristic of American corporations.

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Format: PDF | Size: 170KB | Date: Jan 2003 | Pages: 23