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Creating a Learning Organization through a Co-Generative Learning Process--A Nordic Perspective
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Finnestrand, Hanne – Learning Organization, 2023
Purpose: This paper aims to demonstrate how the Nordic model, featuring highly regulated trade union-employer collaboration, has enabled the building of learning organizations through a co-generative learning model involving both practitioners and action researchers. Design/methodology/approach: A literature search on the Nordic sociotechnical…
Descriptors: Organizational Development, Unions, Employers, Cooperation
Caring as a Managerial Strategy
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Kroth, Michael; Keeler, Carolyn – Human Resource Development Review, 2009
The purpose of this article is to broaden the discourse about caring as a managerial strategy by describing caring from three perspectives: nursing, education, and management. The authors suggest that current organizational models inadequately address the caring connection between manager and employee. Definitions of managerial caring and care…
Descriptors: Models, Caring, Labor Force Development, Administration
Helping Labor and Management Set Up a Quality-of-Worklife Program.
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Maccoby, Michael – Monthly Labor Review, 1984
American Telephone and Telegraph (AT&T) and the union representing its workers--Communications Workers of America--have cooperated in a quality of work life program unique in scope and intensity: a labor-management agreement in which 40,000 Bell System employees have participated. Commitment to the program has survived a 1983 strike and the…
Descriptors: Administration, Employer Employee Relationship, Labor Relations, Participative Decision Making
Employer Interest in Child Care Revives.
Neugebauer, Roger – Child Care Information Exchange, 1992
Reports child care trends based on surveys of child care organizations and consulting groups. Trends discussed include those which relate to (1) the demand for child care services; (2) employers' role in child care; (3) types of child care service; and (4) providers of child care. (SM)
Descriptors: Administration, Day Care Centers, Early Childhood Education, Educational Trends
Fixing Employee Weaknesses: Addressing the Myth.
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Gilley, Jerry W. – Performance Improvement, 2001
Suggests that human resources development professionals need to change their performance improvement focus and philosophy to embrace the importance of building on strengths and managing weaknesses. Identifies five characteristics indicative of employees' strengths. Describes seven strategies to help employees minimize their weaknesses while…
Descriptors: Administration, Employees, Employers, Employment Practices
Taking Management Techniques from Industry.
Michalski, Stan; Wilson, Bob – American School and University, 1979
Two St. Louis universities adopt management techniques from business. (Author)
Descriptors: Administration, Change Strategies, Cost Effectiveness, Employer Employee Relationship
Regional Bargaining Associations: Meeting the Challenge of Public Sector Collective Bargaining.
Smit, Gary M.; And Others – Government Union Review, 1985
Public employers, including school districts, are faced with unionized workers' demanding a larger share of public resources. The formation of regional bargaining associations for employers to counteract union demands is proposed. A case study of a successful association is provided. (MD)
Descriptors: Administration, Collective Bargaining, Elementary Secondary Education, Employers
High-Involvement Management. Participative Strategies for Improving Organizational Performance.
Lawler, Edward E., III – 1986
Participative approaches to management are discussed, noting how each major participative management approach works, its particular strengths, costs, and savings. Identified as particularly promising is "high-involvement management" which involves employees both financially and psychologically. Guidelines for implementation are provided. A…
Descriptors: Administration, Administrative Organization, Employer Employee Relationship, Higher Education
Should We Do Some Joint Training? Part I--Developing a Strategy.
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Smith, Peter A.; Leary, Malcolm – Journal of European Industrial Training, 1978
Discusses the use of joint training approaches in industrial relations and the most effective training methods and techniques for the different groups in the industrial relations scene: management, supervisors, and union representatives. Outlines an industrial relations joint training strategy devised by the authors. (MF)
Descriptors: Administration, Cooperative Planning, Employer Employee Relationship, Industrial Training
Continuous Learning within Japanese Organizations.
Saint, Avice – 1982
This report describes what Japanese organizations have been and are doing to develop their human resources to achieve a high degree of individual and organizational effectiveness and productivity. The first part presents case studies of 16 organizations--both private industry and government--based on interviews conducted in September 1981 in…
Descriptors: Administration, Administrative Organization, Adult Education, Case Studies
A Study of Accommodations Provided to Handicapped Employees by Federal Contractors. Final Report. Volume II: Ten Case Studies.
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Berkeley Planning Associates, CA. – 1982
A series of 10 case studies was conducted as part of a 20-month nationwide study of the accommodations provided to handicapped employees by federal contractors. During the course of the project, case study visits were made to the following firms: the Dow Chemical Company; E. I. DuPont de Nemours and Company; Hewlett-Packard; IBM Corporation;…
Descriptors: Accessibility (for Disabled), Administration, Affirmative Action, Case Studies