Environmental factors in labor-management relationships. (conference paper, Industrial Relations Research Association) From: Monthly Labor Review | Date: April 1, 1986| Author: Voos, Paula B. | COPYRIGHT 1986 U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Environmental factors in the labor-management relationship In recent years, there has been an explosion of interest in cooperative labor relations. Employee participation programs, gain-sharing programs, and joint union-management committees of various types have all received considerable scrutiny. However, while there has been discussion of the economic circumstances which lead the parties to experiment with such programs, there has been less consideration of the extent to which th...

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