Labor Relations: Striking a Balance 4th Edition by John Budd

Exercise 9

Recall the pluralist industrial relations and unitarist human resource management schools of thought from Chapter 2. Assume that labor leaders adhere to the pluralist industrial relations school of thought and that management adheres to the human resource management school of thought. How does the contract between these two schools help increase the understanding of management's emphasis on "cooperation" versus labor's emphasis on "participation?" How do the two schools help increase the understanding of different perspectives on nonunion representation and the Electromation controversy?