Managing Employee Rights and Responsibilities
A companion to the editor's previous volume, Communicating Employee Responsibilities and Rights, this book summarizes the current state of knowledge in the area of employee responsibilities and rights and points to future directions for research and practice. The contributors examine the theory behind employee rights and responsibilities and suggest the need for a shift from discipline-specific orientations to the development of an interdisciplinary paradigm. They emphasize the need to look at rights and responsibilities issues from a broad management context and examine the management of the various issues in modern organizations. Detailed case studies of programs that have worked well, short case examples, court decisions, and quantified data document specific ideas throughout the book.

The book is divided into four sections, beginning with two introductory essays. Three chapters follow that address legal issues such as legislation to protect against unjust discharge, the current status of wrongful dismissal legislation, and trends in Title VII discrimination legal theories. In the next seven chapters that address human resources and management education perspectives, the contributors treat topics involving positive discipline, internal mechanisms for resolving employee complaints, the ombudsman model of managing employee rights, whistleblowing, and the responsibilities of management education to help fulfill the rights of students and future business leaders. The concluding section contains two chapters and examines whether employee rights strategies are desired or required and develops a social constructionist and political economic perspective of employee rights. Taken together, these chapters offer the most comprehensive exposition of this complex subject available to date.

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Managing Employee Rights and Responsibilities
A companion to the editor's previous volume, Communicating Employee Responsibilities and Rights, this book summarizes the current state of knowledge in the area of employee responsibilities and rights and points to future directions for research and practice. The contributors examine the theory behind employee rights and responsibilities and suggest the need for a shift from discipline-specific orientations to the development of an interdisciplinary paradigm. They emphasize the need to look at rights and responsibilities issues from a broad management context and examine the management of the various issues in modern organizations. Detailed case studies of programs that have worked well, short case examples, court decisions, and quantified data document specific ideas throughout the book.

The book is divided into four sections, beginning with two introductory essays. Three chapters follow that address legal issues such as legislation to protect against unjust discharge, the current status of wrongful dismissal legislation, and trends in Title VII discrimination legal theories. In the next seven chapters that address human resources and management education perspectives, the contributors treat topics involving positive discipline, internal mechanisms for resolving employee complaints, the ombudsman model of managing employee rights, whistleblowing, and the responsibilities of management education to help fulfill the rights of students and future business leaders. The concluding section contains two chapters and examines whether employee rights strategies are desired or required and develops a social constructionist and political economic perspective of employee rights. Taken together, these chapters offer the most comprehensive exposition of this complex subject available to date.

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Managing Employee Rights and Responsibilities

Managing Employee Rights and Responsibilities

by Chimezie Osigweh
Managing Employee Rights and Responsibilities

Managing Employee Rights and Responsibilities

by Chimezie Osigweh

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A companion to the editor's previous volume, Communicating Employee Responsibilities and Rights, this book summarizes the current state of knowledge in the area of employee responsibilities and rights and points to future directions for research and practice. The contributors examine the theory behind employee rights and responsibilities and suggest the need for a shift from discipline-specific orientations to the development of an interdisciplinary paradigm. They emphasize the need to look at rights and responsibilities issues from a broad management context and examine the management of the various issues in modern organizations. Detailed case studies of programs that have worked well, short case examples, court decisions, and quantified data document specific ideas throughout the book.

The book is divided into four sections, beginning with two introductory essays. Three chapters follow that address legal issues such as legislation to protect against unjust discharge, the current status of wrongful dismissal legislation, and trends in Title VII discrimination legal theories. In the next seven chapters that address human resources and management education perspectives, the contributors treat topics involving positive discipline, internal mechanisms for resolving employee complaints, the ombudsman model of managing employee rights, whistleblowing, and the responsibilities of management education to help fulfill the rights of students and future business leaders. The concluding section contains two chapters and examines whether employee rights strategies are desired or required and develops a social constructionist and political economic perspective of employee rights. Taken together, these chapters offer the most comprehensive exposition of this complex subject available to date.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780899303369
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 11/03/1989
Pages: 321
Product dimensions: 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.75(d)

About the Author

CHIMEZIE A. B. OSIGWEH, YG., Professor of Management and Director of Personnel and Industrial Relations Research at Norfolk State University, is President of the Council on Employee Responsibilities and Rights in Virginia Beach, Virginia. His previous publications include Communicating Employee Responsibilities and Rights (Quorum Books, 1987), Improving Problem Solving Participation, Professional Management, Organizational Science Abroad, and The Divided Organization. Osigweh is Editor-in-Chief of the Employee's Responsibilities and Rights Journal.

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction
The Challenge of Employee Rights and Responsibilities in Organizations
A Perspective on Workplace Justice for Organized and Unorganized Workers
Legal Perspectives
Legislation as the Best Protection Against Unjust Discharge
The Terrain of Wrongful Dismissal Legislation
Trends in Title VII Discrimination Legal Theories: The Future of Disparate Treatment and Disparate Impact
Human Resources and Management Education Perspectives
Positive Discipline: A Nonpunitive Approach to Managing Human Resources
Positive Discipline from the Worker's Perspective
Internal Mechanisms for Resolving Employee Complaints in Nonunion Organizations
Reactive and Proactive Resolution of Employee Responsibilities and Rights Staff Issues via the Ombudsman Concept
How'm I Doin'? I Have a Need and a Right to Know
The Communicative Act of Whistleblowing
The Responsibilities of the Management Professoriate in the Administrative State
Conclusion
Employee Rights: Required versus Desired
A Social Constructionist and Political Economic Perspective of Employee Rights
Appendix
Bibliography
Index

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