Product Description: Summarizing the critical changes affecting labor relations in the global marketplace, this comprehensive text outlines problems and provides strategies for success in the dynamically evolving work environment. Blending description, analysis, and empirical research into a thorough overview of the field, the authors discuss court decisions and collective bargaining and labor relations at all levels of government...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The public sector currently employs around 40 percent of all union members in the United States. Pressures for cost-effective and quality government services have placed new demands on the labor-management relationship. A fluctuating set of expectations about the appropriate responsibilities of government and a shifting political culture are severely testing the ability of the public sector to meet demands for increased accountability and expanded services...read more

Product Description: Local government employees have a higher propensity to engage in collective bargaining than do private sector employees. This springs from the tight competition in the local budgeting process among those requesting, paying for, and providing services...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Book by Reischl, Dennis K.

Product Description: The focus of this book is to provide an introduction to the issues and procedures central to local government collective bargaining. There are many books which explain private sector labor relations but there are few books available which provide information pertinent to local governments...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Almost half of government employees are represented by labor organizations, and public-sector unions act as a significant force in the effective operation of government and can exert substantial control over labor costs and procedures in the workplace...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Book by Reischl, Dennis K., Smith, Ralph R.

Product Description: This book provides practical insights into improving the effectiveness of labour negotiations in the public sector. It outlines the common conceptions, goals, needs, and obligations the different parties involved in public sector labour negotiations bring with them to negotiations...read more

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Product Description: Book by Reischl, Dennis K., Smith, Ralph R.

Product Description: A compendium of first-hand information on Quality of Work Life systems in the public sector. Provides managers, union officers, and workers with the conceptual tools to make more informed choices in developing their own systems.

Product Description: Includes articles which offer a mix of theoretical analysis, case history and empirical research, interspersed with good, practical advice from those who have sat long hours at the bargaining table.

Product Description: As Professor Blum notes in his Foreword to this new edition, on its first publication in 1948, Government as Employer was one of the first major works dealing with the problems of employees in the public sector. A classic in its field, and long out of print, the work is brought back into print with a new Preface by Sterling D...read more