Navigating The Workplace: What School Executives Should Know About Labor Relations

Education, personnel, and the labor movement -- Organizational hierarchy -- History of unions and organized labor -- Politics in the workplace -- The importance of the labor/management relationship -- Labor laws -- Labor defined among industries -- Leading together -- Power -- Negotiating to win -- Contracts, agreements, "handshakes," and past practice -- It's not what you're selling, it's how you're selling it -- When to "go to the mattresses" -- Communication is key -- Trust -- Strong leadership on both sides -- The willingness to make concessions -- The art of negotiation -- Response to actions -- Antiunion animus -- Pyrrhic victories and strategies of labor unions -- Avoiding work actions -- To be or not to be : when something truly is or isn't the appropriate decision -- The Goldilocks approach : not too hot and not too cold -- Impact of important labor court cases, legal considerations, and precedents.

• | Author: Richard D. Tomko
• | Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• | Publication Date: Aug 30, 2022
• | Number of Pages: 160 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1475862547
• | ISBN-13: 9781475862546