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)

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)

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.…

A study of the United Packinghouse Workers of America compared the postwar years and the Reagan era. Using event-structure analysis, the development of new corporate strategies (new technologies, production reorganization, cheap nonunion labor) fundamentally transformed the capital-labor relationship and led to the collapse of industrial unionism…

Longitudinal case studies of four British organizations tested theories that union membership is waning, collective bargaining is being separated from strategic decision making, and employee involvement is lessening union impact. The conclusion reached was that the marginalization of unions has more complex causes; employee relations need to be…

Experimental studies were conducted in two unions to examine the effects of perceptual variables--reactance and intentionality attributions--on the intent to seek redress from management action. Based on participants' responses to a series of vignettes, both studies demonstrated that greater threat and dispositional attributions provoked stronger…

Data from the Social Science Citation Index were used to rank publication records of 788 scholars in 12 industrial relations and related journals from 1983-88. Such analysis could be used as one objective measure of research excellence in promotion and tenure decisions. (SK)

Case studies of seven Australian manufacturers found the following: (1) relationship between training and deliberate business strategy; (2) more training in more-automated firms; (3) relationship between work form (autonomy/control) and training type (behavioral/technical); (4) more training associated with less-formal labor relations; and (5)…

The study's objectives were to: (1) determine the criteria used by industry in the selection of an area as a plant site; (2) measure the interdependence and economic impact that a manufacturing sector has on an agriculturally dominated rural area; and (3) evaluate employees' attitudes toward their new jobs in manufacturing. Jamestown, North Dakota…

Using individual student data from the Sustaining Effects Survey, the authors examine the question "Do teacher unions affect the productivity of public schools?" Results indicate that union districts are seven percent more productive for average students, but less productive for students who are significantly above or below average.…

Researchers interviewed 83 subordinate employees and 70 supervisory employees to investigate the ways subordinates try to influence their supervisors. Supervisors and subordinates reported similar agents and methods of influence, causes of success, and outcomes of attempts at upward influence, but different causes of failure. (Author/RW)

To analyze the attitudes existing in the "right-to-work" states (primarily in the South and the West) that affect formalized employer-employee relationships, the researchers surveyed 122 presidents, chancellors, and chief academic officers in Texas public and private community and junior colleges. (Author/WD)

Differences in the approach to and nature of collective bargaining practices in industrialized countries are examined, along with recent trends and developments. While inflation and other problems may change the character of negotiation agreements, the institution of collective bargaining has demonstrated adaptability. (MF)

This study lends support for the hypothesis that management attitudes toward the union have a strong influence on the success of the union-management relationship in the public sector. However, the causal direction of this correlation was not thoroughly determined. (Author)

Government employment statistics indicate that the number of federal labor relations specialists declined 7% from 1991-2000; the proportion of women in the field grew from 42.2% to 50.9%; and the pay gap narrowed. The number of women in upper management rose 18% between 1991 and 1998. (Contains 31 references.) (SK)