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A terse, well-written, up-to-date, and refreshing account of recent
developments in employment practices across a sample of seven
industrialized nations, including the Soviet Union, by an
established scholar of comparative systems. The trends discussed
are industrial democracy at enterprise and establishment level,
quality of working life, job tenure and security of employment,
personnel policy, and working time arrangements. . . . The book
provides a useful and accessible introduction to a number of
important themes in the management and maintenance of human
resources. . . . Highly recommended. . . . Choice In recent years,
fundamental economic forces have profoundly affected the labor
markets of the industrialized nations. Among these forces are: the
mass entrance of women into the labor market and major changes in
work patterns designed to accomodate them; industrial restructuring
due to the decline in manufacturing and the concomitant rise in
service industries and advanced technologies; the shift in workers'
objectives toward job security, improved quality of working life,
and more adequate provision for post-retirement years; and,
finally, employee demand for industrial democracy or increased
participation in making business decisions, which has led to the
implementation of economically viable participatory schemes. The
policy innovations and experiments effected during the past two
decades in response to these labor market developments are the
subject of New Trends in Employment Practices. In addition to the
United States, the author considers four major industrial nations
of the democratic world, France, Germany, Great Britain, and Japan.
Walter Galenson also looks at Sweden, a country long noted for its
imaginative labor programs, and the Soviet Union, a nation where
recent events have graphically illustrated the strength of the
demand for greater democracy at the enterprise and political
levels. The book begins with a discussion of the promotion of
industrial democracy at the enterprise level, citing a State of
Washington program in which the unemployed receive seed money to
start small businesses instead of being sent unemployment benefits.
Galenson also details British experience with this same scheme. In
Industrial Democracy at the Shop Floor Level, employee
representation on corporate boards and employee ownership of
companies, increasingly common phenomena in the United States, are
investigated along with the relevant experience under German
codetermination. Chapter Three is devoted to the movement for an
improved Quality of Working Life (QWL), which is based largely on
Japanese and Swedish models and has many adherents in the United
States and Canada. Chapter four illustrates programs that take into
account increased desire for job security, and specifically the
Japanese system of lifetime employment guarantees. Preserving jobs
and finding new ones when layoffs do occur, and Sweden's
two-decade, near-zero unemployment due to its active labor market
policy, are reviewed next. Chapter Six's focus is on the altered
patterns of work time and Chapter Seven describes how various
aspects of Soviet employment were handled in the past and explains
the impact of Gorbachev's reforms. A final chapter offers a summary
and conclusions. This cogent treatment of labor market practices
will be of vital interest to corporate labor administrators who are
or will be engaged in collective bargaining over the subjects
treated in these pages. The book is ideal for courses in labor
economics, comparative labor institutions, and internationally
oriented courses in business schools.
General
Imprint: |
Praeger Publishers Inc
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
December 1990 |
First published: |
December 1990 |
Authors: |
Walter Galenson
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Dimensions: |
216 x 140 x 14mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
168 |
Edition: |
New |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-313-27629-3 |
Categories: |
Books >
Business & Economics >
Economics >
Labour economics >
General
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LSN: |
0-313-27629-3 |
Barcode: |
9780313276293 |
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