Relations Industrielles/Industrial Relations articles from January 1993

Relations Industrielles/Industrial Relations archives from January 1993

Are strong unions compatible with the new model of human resource management?
January 1, 1993... production standards, HRM innovations resulted in "win-win" solutions, the costs of which were borne almost entirely by the workers. Even then, the solutions were beneficial only to some workers, i.e. those whose job bids were successful in the...

Alternative models of industrial relations graduate programs in Canadian and U.S. universities.
January 1, 1993... ENTERING INTO THE PEDAGOGICAL QUAGMIRE Promoting the concept of a "model" for teaching industrial relations is itself both risky and provocative, on a number of grounds. First, and perhaps foremost, there remains considerable debate regarding...

Centrality in workers' belief systems about unions.
January 1, 1993... A belief system about unions consists of "the total universe" of an individual's beliefs about unions (Rokeach 1968:454). The theoretical literature on belief systems presents a complex picture of how social beliefs are organized. Belief systems...

Cyclical variations in the duration of unemployment spells.
January 1, 1993... It is often accepted as a truism that the higher the economy-wide unemployment rate, the longer are the durations of individual unemployment spells. A cursory look at the aggregate data on the duration of interrupted unemployment spell lengths...

Dispute resolution and self-selection: an empirical examination of the Federal Public Sector, 1971-1982.
January 1, 1993... In 1967 the Government of Canada legislated an innovative mechanism for resolving collective bargaining disputes in the federal public service.(1) Under this legislation, the bargaining agent involved chooses unilaterally whether any impasse in...

Industrial discipline in the Canadian federal jurisdiction.
January 1, 1993... With the enactment of statutory laws governing dismissal for nonunionized workers in Canada, a key issue for inquiry is what approach adjudicators acting under this legislation have adopted with respect to industrial discipline. Most nonunionized...