Employment with a Human Face: Balancing Efficiency, Equity, and VoiceCornell University Press, 2004 - 263 páginas John W. Budd contends that the turbulence of the current workplace and the importance of work for individuals and society make it vitally important that employment be given "a human face." Contradicting the traditional view of the employment relationship as a purely economic transaction, with business wanting efficiency and workers wanting income, Budd argues that equity and voice are equally important objectives. The traditional narrow focus on efficiency must be balanced with employees' entitlement to fair treatment (equity) and the opportunity to have meaningful input into decisions (voice), he says. Only through a greater respect for these human concerns can broadly shared prosperity, respect for human dignity, and equal appreciation for the competing human rights of property and labor be achieved.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. |
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... should the reverse be true — should equity and voice have pri- ority over efficiency needs ? Neither of these extreme options is preferable ; rather , a democratic society should seek to balance efficiency I ' Introduction.
... balance efficiency , equity , and voice . The power of free economic markets to provide efficiency and economic prosperity is important and should be encouraged , but respect for human dig- nity and democratic ideals further requires ...
... balances - that will help respect and serve human life ( Flexner 1989 ; Hartmann 2002 ; Kor- ten 1995 ) and democracy ( Frank 2000 ; Kelly 2001 ; Phillips 2002 ) . In 1999 , the ... balance between efficiency , equity , and Introduction | 3.
... balance unequal bargaining power between employers and employees and to therefore produce outcomes that create economic pros- perity and respect for human life . Explicit analyses of fundamental issues pertaining to the nature of work ...
... balance these competing human rights , the employment relationship should , therefore , balance efficiency , equity , and voice . Can markets or cor- porations be relied on to balance these goals in the absence of unions , gov- ernment ...
Contenido
The Objectives of the Employment Relationship | 13 |
The Balancing Imperative Human Rights in Conflict | 32 |
Balancing Outcomes The Environment and Human Agents | 47 |
Balancing Outcomes Revisited The Ethics of the Employment Relationship | 66 |
The Balancing Alternatives Workplace Governance | 82 |
The New Deal Industrial Relations System | 101 |
The Geometry of Comparative Industrial Relations | 118 |
Alternatives to Job Control Unionism | 137 |
Balancing the Global Workplace | 158 |
Conclusion | 180 |
The Late Middle Ages of Industrial Relations | 188 |
Notes | 199 |
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