Workplace Justice Without Unions

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Justice in the U.S. nonunion workplace operates within the tenets of employment-at-will. Based on the late nineteenth century â€œWoodâ€™s rule,â€ this concept led courts to recognize the right of an employer to fire a worker at any time, for any reason. Fortunately for nonunion workers, a workplace justice system has evolved that provides them some recourse when they have been let go without just cause. This is a complex and not widely understood system, but now there is a book that clarifies its workings and compares its effectiveness and fairness to a variety of other workplace justice systems.

Wheeler, Klaas, and Mahony provide a thorough analysis of organizational justice systems by exploring nonunion systems of workplace justice and comparing them with the union system, American courts, and systems in 11 other countries. The U.S. nonunion workplace justice system includes protective federal legislation, labor arbitration, and a host of management-initiated procedures including the use of open-door policies, ombudsmen, mediation, peer review panels, and the most recent and controversial method, employment arbitration. The latter methodâ€"arbitration of workplace disputes in a nonunion settingâ€"receives special attention from the authors, who include a discussion of the law concerning employment arbitration along with an intensive survey that investigates its practice.

Determining whether any of these procedures provides due process requires studying each of them in some detail. The authors use a combination of literature search and survey questions posed to the various decision makers. Their empirical analysis focuses on the overall win/loss rates by employees in termination cases in labor arbitration, employment arbitration, and the federal courts. Specifically, they attempt to determine the degree to which the same result would be reached in the same cases across different processes by posing scenarios to labor arbitrators, employment arbitrators, managers, members of peer review panels, jurors in employment discrimination cases, and labor court judges from other countries. Analysis of the responses to these scenarios allows comparison of the relative harshness or leniency of the systems toward employees for different disciplinary offenses, and the criteria used to reach decisions. The result is a body of data and analysis that permit the authors to discern the differences among these systems in both outcome and procedure, and to compare them on the basis of their merits.

Wheeler, Klaas, and Mahony conclude by discussing a number of important issues for employment and organizational policy, including the effects of the decline in unionization on workplace justice systems and the trend toward using employment arbitration as a substitute for the court system.

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Workplace justice without unions.(Book Review): An article from: International Labour Review

Manufacturer: International Labour Office
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ASIN: B000AJQNDE
Release Date: 2006-07-14

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Title: Workplace justice without unions.(Book Review)
Publication: International Labour Review (Refereed)
Date: December 22, 2004
Publisher: International Labour Office
Volume: 143 Issue: 4 Page: 401(3)

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Workplace Justice without Unions.(Book review): An article from: Relations Industrielles/Industrial Relations

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Workplace Justice without Unions.(Book review): An article from: Relations Industrielles/Industrial Relations
James J. Brudney
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ASIN: B000J3F92W
Release Date: 2006-09-28

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This digital document is an article from Relations Industrielles/Industrial Relations, published by Thomson Gale on March 22, 2006. The length of the article is 1445 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Workplace Justice without Unions.(Book review)
Author: James J. Brudney
Publication: Relations Industrielles/Industrial Relations (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 22, 2006
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Volume: 61 Issue: 2 Page: 359(4)

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David Howarth and Peter Loedel provide a theoretically inspired account of the creation, design, and operation of the European Central Bank, (ECB). Issues explored include the theoretical approaches to the ECB, the antecedents of European monetary authority, the different national perspectives on central bank independence, the complex organization of the bank, the issues of accountability and the difficult first years of the ECB in operation.

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The authors of Building SET Applications for Secure Transactions show you why the Secure Electronic Transaction (SET) standard makes secure e-commerce a reality. This wide-ranging text informs Information Systems (IS) managers what SET is, how it works, and how to implement a secure commerce system on their Web sites.

This book first teaches the SET standard, which has been endorsed by such major vendors as Visa and MasterCard as well as IBM, Netscape, and Microsoft. The authors argue that SET will revolutionize e-commerce by providing secure transactions for all.

In order to understand SET on the Internet, the authors explain ordinary credit card transactions in the real world. In subsequent chapters, the authors teach the underpinnings of today's cryptography standards (such as DES and RSA) and how certificates and digital signatures work in terms of the SET protocol.

The book's strength is its wide-ranging perspective on e-commerce and how it fits into traditional business systems. Several chapters provide checklists for the IS manager considering the move toward the Web for commerce. Analyzing and designing, planning for security, and testing are just some of the issues that must be faced when implementing a successful e-business. Clearly, SET is not a magic bullet against fraud, but the authors show why the future of electronic commerce is bright. --Richard Dragan

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Complete coverage of the emerging standard for securely handling online payments. This guide explains SET's impact on online commerce and describes how to create SET-compliant solutions. Demonstrating exactly how to implement SET, the book also covers purchase and installation, application development, testing, and more. SET (Secure Electronic Transaction standard) is an open standard that has been endorsed by most software, hardware, and credit card companies. It will soon be the standard for e-commerce on the Internet.

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neither here nor there.......2000-03-26

This book starts by giving a technical overview of the protocol and just when authors start getting a little deep into the subject they slip onto business details which does not go too deep either. The content is not focussed at all. There are whole chapters on things like "object oriented programming" and "planning a web site" - which are hardly related to SET.

Products detailed in the book are pretty old (e.g RSA has already sold S/PAY to another company in 1998 but book still refer to it as an RSA product)

Overall the book cannot be recommended to people with technical knowledge. only somebody who is in a managerial capacity who has absolutly no knowledge of cryptography or networking and has been pushed into a project requiring SET implementation could find some use for the book.

If you are looking for in-depth focussed understanding of SET, I would recommend reading book 1 and book 2 of original SET implementaion (www.setco.org). They are long but they are the only thing that made me understand SET.

good for those who want to implement SET.......1999-04-13

if u r really interested in implementing set protocol u can go thru this book.

It's good for a rookie!.......1998-12-09

This book described SET stadand clearly. I think someone who want to know more about SET but now not very familliar with it could read this book.

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Establishes how to find business contacts, do research, and communicate with customers as well as the Do's and Don'ts of web page design and usage.

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Highly recommended, first class introductory "how to" book........2000-03-03

In Doing Business On The World-Wide Web, Marni Patterson shows the reader just what is needed to get started with any kind of commercial activity on the Internet. She offers a special hands-on guide to navigating the World Wide Web; how to sell subscriptions and services on the Web; and the secrets of thwarting hackers and cyberpunks. Doing Business On The World-Wide Web explains why establishing a home page is good for any business and how to gauge your own website's effectiveness as a business tool. Doing Business On The World-Wide Web is a highly recommend, first class introductory "how to" manual for anyone contemplating adding the Internet to their business or entrepreneurial activities.

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Doing the right thing: how to build socially responsible web infrastructure. What is web accessibility and why is it so important?(Related Article: Is ... 6 quick tests.): An article from: Planning

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Doing the right thing: how to build socially responsible web infrastructure. What is web accessibility and why is it so important?(Related Article: Is ... 6 quick tests.): An article from: Planning
Abhijeet Chavan , and Chris Steins
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This digital document is an article from Planning, published by American Planning Association on July 1, 2003. The length of the article is 2386 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Doing the right thing: how to build socially responsible web infrastructure. What is web accessibility and why is it so important?(Related Article: Is my website accessible? 6 quick tests.)
Author: Abhijeet Chavan
Publication: Planning (Magazine/Journal)
Date: July 1, 2003
Publisher: American Planning Association
Volume: 69 Issue: 7 Page: 10(4)

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Electronic Commerce Dictionary: The Definitive Terms for Doing Business on the Information Superhighway

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Electronic Commerce Dictionary: The Definitive Terms for Doing Business on the Information Superhighway
Ted Haynes
Manufacturer: Robleda Co
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ASIN: 0964650606

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The definitive terms for doing business on the Information Superhighway. The book defines over 900 terms and acronyms essential for anyone trying to understand electronic commerce and looking for opportunities to profit from it. htm.

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Effective Meetings: Improving Group Decision-Making (SAGE Human Services Guides)
John E. Tropman
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"(This book) deals with a topic whose importance is evident to anyone familiar with the human service field, where innumerable hours are inevitably spent in meetings. This book's basic premise is that group decsion making is valuable and essential in our modern society because it brings together individuals with a variety of different expertise, values and experiences in order to solve complex problems.... Tropman presents specific procedures to help participants improve decision making by utilizing the contribution of all group members appropriately, and he offers some explicit guidelines and techniques for this purpose."

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This digital document is an article from Fairfield County Business Journal, published by Westfair Communications, Inc. on September 13, 2004. The length of the article is 1012 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Publication: Fairfield County Business Journal (Magazine/Journal)
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Building more effective women leaders through mentoring.(FW FOCUS: WOMEN IN FRANCHISING)(International Franchise Association's Women's Franchise Committee ... An article from: Franchising World

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Building more effective women leaders through mentoring.(FW FOCUS: WOMEN IN FRANCHISING)(International Franchise Association's Women's Franchise Committee ... An article from: Franchising World
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This digital document is an article from Franchising World, published by Thomson Gale on March 1, 2007. The length of the article is 955 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Author: Rosemarie E. Hartnett
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Effective Committee Service (Survival Skills for Scholars)
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Committees. Seemingly endless, boring discussions going nowhere. No university survives without them, and no faculty member can avoid them. Why are there such a plethora of committees in the university? What functions do they serve? And how can you, as a committee member or chair, ensure that the work gets done quickly and effectively with a minimum of conflict, boredom, or wasted time? Author Neil J. Smelser has incorporated decades of experience on a myriad of committees from the local level up to national policy advisory groups into this book. He skillfully demystifies committees and explains how to get on certain committees and avoid others, how to get the committee work done as efficiently as possible, how to ensure that your views are properly represented in the committee's report, how chairing a committee can help shape its mission and direct its outcome, and how to use committees as a positive factor for your academic career. Smelser's advice will be useful to anyone working in the university setting.

Fair Weather: Effective Partnerships in Weather and Climate Services (National Research Council)

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Upholding humanitarian principles in an effective integrated response.(Humanitarian aid and intervention: the challenges of integration) : An article from: Ethics & International Affairs
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This digital document is an article from Ethics & International Affairs, published by Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs on October 1, 2004. The length of the article is 4260 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Upholding humanitarian principles in an effective integrated response.(Humanitarian aid and intervention: the challenges of integration)
Author: Joel R. Charny
Publication: Ethics & International Affairs (Refereed)
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Publisher: Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs
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Disincentives to effective employee training and development: A research project for the Utilization Committee, U.S. Civil Service Commission

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Disincentives to effective employee training and development: A research project for the Utilization Committee, U.S. Civil Service Commission
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Today's job market is the toughest in recent history. Nearly every day, big companies make headlines by laying off thousands of workers.

The hidden bright spot is that small companies have created tens of thousands of good new jobs. Nearly 80 percent of all new jobs have been created not by big corporations but by small companies.

"A Big Splash in a Small Pond" is the first book that gives you the tools you need to find the job you want. It offers:

Self-evaluations to help you decide if you'll fit in with small-company culture;

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"A Big Splash in a Small Pond" will help outplaced corporate employees, recent college graduates, former career military, women returning to the workforce, and frustrated professionals find new opportunities in the workplace of the 1990's.

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A Big Splash in a Small Pond : Finding a Great Job in a Small, High-Growth Company
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The New NHS Explained provides a brief and authoritative overview of the funding, organization, delivery systems and accountability mechanisms of the new NHS and enables the reader to get a rapid grasp of the nature and significance of the new structures.

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Brilliant survey of what Labour is doing to the NHS.......2007-07-12

Our National Health Service used to plan and fund to meet patient needs, providing free and fair access for all. But things are very different now, as Dr Alison Talbot-Smith, a specialist registrar in respiratory medicine, and Professor Allyson Pollock, head of the Centre for International Public Health Policy at the University of Edinburgh, explain in this excellent book.

They have provided a careful and scholarly survey of the NHS's current workings. It follows Professor Pollock's NHS plc: the privatisation of our health care (Verso, 2004), in which she destroyed the government's rationales for its anti-NHS policy.

They write, "The NHS is being radically transformed. It was originally conceived and built up as a tax-funded, centrally-planned, publicly-owned and accountable service, available everywhere to everyone equally, like schools or police services. The new NHS is to be a market, in which patients choose particular hospitals or clinics and in which doctors and hospitals compete for business, both with each other and with for-profit healthcare corporations."

Until 2000, the government claimed that it would not privatise clinical services but The NHS Plan of 2000 proved this to be a lie. The NHS was to become a holding company, `franchising' health services out to various providers. The government has destroyed the mechanisms for ensuring greater equity of resource allocation and service distribution.

Privatisation means extra costs: setting up new bodies to regulate, monitor, inspect and audit; marketing services to attract patients; billing and invoicing; paying huge fees to unnecessary management consultants and lawyers; and, for the private providers, the overriding imperative of paying dividends. For example, surgery performed in private hospitals costs 40% more than in NHS hospitals, because of higher costs and the need to return a profit to the shareholders.

The government imposed external regulation on the health professions, reducing the roles of the professions' own bodies. New contracts for GPs and consultants give the government more powers over how doctors work. The government's Medical Training Application Service for junior doctors is a disaster. The government has also tried to impose more `flexibility' on all NHS staff's conditions. But the government has succeeded in one area - it has created 70% more managers. Public trust in NHS workers' service ethos is being replaced by litigiousness, fostered by private law and legally binding contracts.

Most of the increased amounts of public money that the government boasts about putting into the NHS go straight through the NHS and out the other side to private companies. The total value of PFI-financed hospital schemes approved by the Labour government is £17 billion. PFI accounts for 98% (by value) of building schemes in the NHS hospital and community health services. Private borrowing is dearer, but the public sector runs the risks. In 2004, Labour lifted the ceiling on health administration costs, which had already doubled, cutting clinical care budgets so that there are fewer beds in PFI hospitals. PFI's spiralling costs and corruptions are obvious to everyone but the scheme's godfather, Gordon Brown.

Many NHS trusts have large financial deficits, causing them to suspend or delay treatment or even close services. Community hospitals are being closed; there are major cuts in mental health services, palliative care, pain relief and speech and occupational therapy services. And now Brown proclaims that he wants to end all district general hospitals!

Labour has forced local authorities to divest themselves of all their social service assets, including long-term care for the elderly, ending equal access to equal quality of care for older people. Much social care and long-term care is now charged for. All these cuts are worsening health inequalities. Patients' entitlements to NHS care are being curtailed. The NHS no longer provides comprehensive care.

`User fees', `top-up fees', `co-payments' and vouchers are undermining the NHS's goals. `Choice' of service provider swiftly becomes `choice' of level of service, a choice determined by ability to pay, not by need.

Labour's `reforms' are not producing a better or more cost-effective NHS. As the authors note, "The outsourcing of ancillary services, like hospital cleaning and catering, has yet to provide evidence that the profit motive leads to better service, or lower costs." In sum, Labour is destroying our National Health Service, one of Britain's greatest achievements.

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This volume is the result of a symposium in which 15 distinguished scholars, business leaders, lawyers, social scientists, philosophers, and theologians considered management and corporations in 1985.

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