Communicating Employee Responsibilities and Rights: A Modern Management Mandate

by Chimezie Osigweh

Overview

Understanding the array of occupational rights that give meaning to the emerging demands, expectations, and role responsibilities in the modern workplace is of critical importance. Equally important is achieving an understanding of the evolving workplace practices these rights mandate. Employer and employee understanding of these considerations offers enormous potential for avoiding situations that provoke and escalate conflicts in the contemporary workplace. At the heart of all of this is the need for clear, consistent, and effective communication in the modern organization. This book, containing contributions by outstanding scholars and practitioners in the fields of communication, organizational psychology and management, law, personnel, and industrial and labor relations, addresses the issues involved in communicating employee responsiblities and rights.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780899302003
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	06/04/1987
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	270
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.62(d)
Lexile:	1400L (what's this?)

About the Author

CHIMEZIE A.B. OSIGWEH, YG., Professor of Management and Director of Personnel and Industrial Relations Research at Norwalk State University, is President of The Council on Employee Responsibilities and Rights in Virginia Beach, Virginia.

Table of Contents

Figures and Tables
Preface
Part I. Introduction
Communication, Responsibilities and Pro-Rights Revolution in the Industrial Workplace by Chimezie A.B. Osigweh, Yg.
Defining and Communicating Employee and Employer Rights in an Institutional Context by Patricia H. Werhane
Employee Rights from the Government Perspective: An Overview from the Practicing Attorney's Viewpoint by Tommy W. Taylor and Penny J. White
Part II. Employee Rights and Responsibilites Communication: Selected Issues and Organizational Delivery Systems
Freedom of Speech and Private Sector At-Will Employment: Implications for Society, the Individual, and Management by Wayne Sanders
Nonunion Employee Rights to Continued Employment by Darryel Robards
Employee Participation in Organizational Decision-Making: Caught in the Squeeze by Jo E. Keller
Battle of the Ban and Smoking in the Workplace: A Human Resource Policy Analysis by George Munchus III
Communicating Employee Responsibilities and Rights: The Medium and the Message by Marshall Sashkin and William C. Morris
The Communication Revolution: Will Cold Plastic Replace Warm Flesh? by Gerald M. Goldhaber and Vincent S. Di Salvo
Messages from the Environment: The Influence of Policies and Practices on Employee Responsibility by Joanne M. Ciulla
Communicating Employee Rights and Responsibilites: The Influence of Role Modeling by R. Bruce McAfee and Betty R. Ricks
Employee Rights: Content, Argumentativeness, Verbal Aggressiveness, and Career Satisfaction by William I. Gorden and Dominic A. Infante
Communicating Employee Rights and Responsibilities through Work Rules—Some Preliminary Findings by R. Bruce McAfee and Mark L. Chadwin
A Model of Communicating Employee Responsibility Through Labor-Management Participation Teams in an Organization in Financial Difficulty by Dietrich L. Schaupp and Randyl D. Elkin
Two Models for Communicating Standards by John Waide
Part III. Conclusion
An Employee Rights Scale for a Communication Perspective by William I. Gorden and Dominic A. Infante
Bibliography
Index
Contributors