Guide for administrators regarding teacher contract administration, arbitration, and grievance procedures. (LR)

Fact-finding, as a means of settling public employment disputes, is discussed. The history, legal status, and procedures of fact-finding are summarized. (MF)

Provides a procedure for resolution of agreement impasses that attempts to make collective bargaining the important ingredient of the industrial relations pattern in the public sector. Includes an analysis of and a rationale for each step in the procedure. (Author/IRT)

Briefly describes types of binding arbitration that various states have adopted as a means of preventing teacher strikes. (IRT)

Advocates at grievance arbitrations should know the requirements for challenging arbitrator jurisdiction, especially timeliness; should know the procedural safeguards in the contract that must be followed in order to sustain discipline; should know the theory of the case; and should realize that techniques of presentation may be important.…

Discussion of the use of consensus-building techniques to resolve public policy disputes focuses on the use of a simulation of the conflict that needs to be resolved. An example is given of the National Energy Policy Simulation that was designed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)-Harvard Public Disputes Program. (38 references)…

The emergence of faculty collective bargaining in colleges and universities has brought the industrial process of arbitration into the academic arena. This article examines one institution's experience with this process. (Editor)

A history of and growth of labor-management programs, issues in labor-management relations, and methods of dealing with union representatives are discussed. Several graphics and handouts illustrate labor-management problems. A glossary of related terms and bibliography are included. (NF)

The article offers practical thoughts on mediation to school systems involved in disagreements related to implementation of the Education for All Handicapped Children Act. The authors recommend training programs for mediators as well as for participants in mediation sessions, individualized education program meetings, placement meetings, and due…

This article proposes and discusses improvements in due process procedures based on two sources: empirical findings in the education literature and importable practices from labor arbitration and civil adjudication. (Author/CL)

Dealing with the topic of negotiation, this issue discusses experimental social psychological studies on negotiating behavior, the ways that power is used in negotiation, consequences and considerations involved in choosing a negotiating strategy, mediation, the cognitive constraints to negotiation, and similarities and differences between…