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Employment with a Human Face: Balancing Efficiency, Equity, and Voice

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Description for Employment with a Human Face: Balancing Efficiency, Equity, and Voice Paperback. Series: ILR Press Book. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; KCF; KNXB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 154 x 17. Weight in Grams: 402.

John W. Budd contends that the turbulence of the current workplace and the importance of work for individuals and society make it vitally important that employment be given "a human face." Contradicting the traditional view of the employment relationship as a purely economic transaction, with business wanting efficiency and workers wanting income, Budd argues that equity and voice are equally important objectives. The traditional narrow focus on efficiency must be balanced with employees' entitlement to fair treatment (equity) and the opportunity to have meaningful input into decisions (voice), he says. Only through a greater respect for these human concerns can ... Read more

Budd proposes a fresh set of objectives for modern democracies—efficiency, equity, and voice—and supports this new triad with an intellectual framework for analyzing employment institutions and practices. In the process, he draws on scholarship from industrial relations, law, political science, moral philosophy, theology, psychology, sociology, and economics, and advances debates over free markets, globalization, human rights, and ethics. He applies his framework to important employment-related topics, such as workplace governance, the New Deal industrial relations system, comparative industrial relations, labor union strategies, and globalization. These analyses create a foundation for reforming employment practices, social norms, and public policies. In the book's final chapter, Budd advocates the creation of the field of human resources and industrial relations and explores the wider implications of this renewed conceptualization of industrial relations.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Series
ILR Press Book
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801472602
SKU
V9780801472602
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About John W. Budd
John W. Budd is Industrial Relations Landgrant Professor at the Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota. He is the coeditor of The Ethics of Human Resources and Industrial Relations, also from Cornell, and Labor Relations: Striking a Balance.

Reviews for Employment with a Human Face: Balancing Efficiency, Equity, and Voice
In this book, John W. Budd articulates a stimulating (re)conceptualization of the employment relationship in modern society.... He brings together a rich treatment of industrial relations and human resource management perspectives under the eclectic rubric of HRIR. Budd concludes by making a valuable call for a renaissance in the subject area through stronger multidisciplinary linkages. The challenge is for those ... Read more

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