New or modified functions and responsibilities require personnel managers to obtain additional knowledge, techniques and skills. Two alternatives are available: the Master of Business Administration program or programs offered in industrial relations centers. (EB)

Author proposes that national health care system consist of voluntary health insurance supplemented by government participation where needed. (IR)

Looks at union-management (U-M) ideology as a potential explanatory variable in labor relations and demonstrates a method of measuring the ideology of union (N=34) and management (N=38) representatives. Semantic differential and antecedent-consequent techniques indicated significant union-management differences on all 10 U-M beliefs measured. (WAS)

In this article an account is given of work undertaken by an internal organization development (OD) unit within the United Kingdom's National Health Service, in the area of joint consultation within a health authority. Some thoughts are also presented on the relationship between OD practice and the field of industrial relations. (SSH)

Trends of the late 1970s in educational labor relations will continue in the 1980s. There will be less legislation permitting public sector unionization, slower union organizing, tougher negotiations, more inter-union fights, more attempts to organize educational managers, greater political activity among educational unions, and increased debate…

Argues that the two extremes of aggression or capitulation are equally malproductive ways for administrators to approach teacher unions and collective bargaining. Suggests instead a relationship that moves between the lesser opposites of antagonism and cooperation called "antagonistic cooperation" by labor economist E. Wight Bakke.…

Reviews the literature on the effects of teacher strikes on students and reports the results of a study analyzing student achievement in the presence or absence of strikes. Students in schools not experiencing strikes showed consistent gains, especially in mathematics, over students in schools where strikes took place. (WD)

To familiarize managers with the conditions under which collective bargaining agreements may violate antitrust law, the historical evolution of antitrust law concerning labor-management relations is traced; the managerial implications of the United States Supreme Court's decisions are discussed; and likely future trends are suggested. (Author/MLF)

Informal negotiations over teacher contracts serve to create an atmosphere of trust and to focus settlements on items of major concern. This article gives guidelines established during such a "nonnegotiation" process in Coldwater (Michigan). (Author/WD)

Presents a simulation game on labor negotiations for secondary students. (SJL)

Briefly reviews the impact of the ideology of professionalism on librarianship and explores the affected labor-management and librarian-client relationships. (RAA)

Explores the circumstances under which public employers may take action on employment-related matters without bargaining agent assent in those instances in which a contract has terminated or negotiations have reached an impasse. (Author/IRT)

Reexamines the right of employees to sit-in independently during arbitration between their union and their employer. Journal availability: See EA 511 946. (IRT)

Presents support for the conclusion that an equity expectation exists among workers vis-a-vis their supervisor's communicative behavior toward them. Three communicative variables were manipulated simultaneously to create clearly different relationships between control and experimental groups, and perceived inequity and its effects were measured.…

The impact of collective bargaining on labor peace in government will be determined by the effects of the taxpayers' revolt, the bargaining table attitudes of the unions and public employers, the competence of the public management group, and the availability of procedures. Available from the Graduate School of Business, Indiana University,…