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Liu, Joseph T. – Management Teaching Review, 2021
This article reviews the documentary film "American Factory" as a resource for undergraduate management courses, especially those with a global emphasis. The film illustrates several themes, including overcoming cross-cultural challenges with cultural intelligence; international labor relations; employee health, safety, and well-being;…
Descriptors: Manufacturing, Management Development, Teaching Methods, Occupational Safety and Health
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Betts, Jan; Holden, Rick – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2003
Analyzed two programs in a public agency: Investors in Management (a British government initiative) and employee-led development. Found that both programs exposed tensions between individual growth and traditional values constraining growth. Concluded that effective organizational learning in the public sector must be collective and aware of…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Foreign Countries, Labor Relations, Organizational Culture
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Rigby, Kathleen – School Organisation, 1995
Portrays a (British) sixth-form college's experiences while preparing for incorporation. Analyzes recent developments of interest to education managers facing externally imposed change. Focuses on communication and consultation structures, the changing balance of power as institutions become independent entities, and industrial relations in a new…
Descriptors: Colleges, Communication Problems, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Lam, Y. L. Jack; Kong, Shiu L. – 1980
Data were collected from teacher and trustee representatives on negotiation teams in 13 school districts in Manitoba (Canada) to determine the effects of collective bargaining on the relationship between teachers and boards. Differences were found to center on the issue of authority in such areas as teaching conditions, staffing procedures, and…
Descriptors: Boards of Education, Collective Bargaining, Conflict, Elementary Secondary Education
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Barrera, Eduardo – Journal of Communication, 1995
Discusses the history of Mexican telecommunications policy (in four distinct eras from 1882 to 1995) from the perspective of its functions as a tool of state power. Examines the impact of the privatization of telecommunications in Mexico on labor, international organizations, transnational and national cooperations, and Mexican law and policy. (SR)
Descriptors: Communication Research, Foreign Countries, Government (Administrative Body), Government Role
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Mody, Bella – Journal of Communication, 1995
Traces changing state-capital relations in telecommunications in India since its beginning as a law-and-order maintenance tool of the British Empire. Focuses on how the state included the interests of particular external and internal forces (foreign capital, domestic capital, the World Bank, workers and managers in the state monopoly, and users)…
Descriptors: Capital, Communication Research, Foreign Countries, Government (Administrative Body)