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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... Outcomes : The Environment and Human Agents 47 4. Balancing Outcomes Revisited : The Ethics of the Employment Relationship 66 Conclusion 5. The Balancing Alternatives : Workplace Governance 6. The New Deal Industrial Relations System 7 ...
... outcomes are widening.1 The trend worldwide is for flexible employment relationships — employment flexibility , pay flexibility , functional flexibility , and procedural flexibility ( see chapter 8 ) . As a result , the institutions ...
... outcomes will favor employers at the expense of employees , with the potential for abuse . Checks and balances are needed to restore equality between labor and capital : The State , however , has the task of determining the juridical ...
... outcomes by assuming that conflict between employers and employees can be resolved by effective corporate policies that will align the interests of corporations and workers . Mainstream U.S. industrial rela- tions principles embrace the ...
... outcomes that under- mine the value of human life . As such , conflicts between efficiency , on the one hand , and equity and voice , on the other , can be considered conflicts between the conflicting human rights of property and labor ...
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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