Employment With a Human Face

by Budd, John W.

• ISBN13: 9780801442087
• ISBN10: 0801442087
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-02-01
• Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr

Summary

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.

Author Biography

John W. Budd is Industrial Relations Landgrant Term Professor at the Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota.

Table of Contents

Preface
Abbreviations
Introduction	p. 1
The Objectives of the Employment Relationship	p. 13
The Balancing Imperative: Human Rights in Conflict	p. 32
Balancing Outcomes: The Environment and Human Agents	p. 47
Balancing Outcomes Revisited: The Ethics of the Employment Relationship	p. 66
The Balancing Alternatives: Workplace Governance	p. 82
The New Deal Industrial Relations System	p. 101
The Geometry of Comparative Industrial Relations	p. 118
Alternatives to Job Control Unionism	p. 137
Balancing the Global Workplace	p. 158
Conclusion	p. 180
Epilogue: The Late Middle Ages of Industrial Relations	p. 188
Notes	p. 199
References	p. 223
Index	p. 257
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