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- Title
JOINT PRODUCTIVITY COMMITTEES: LESSONS OF RECENT INITIATIVES.
- Authors
Goldoff, Anna C.; Tatage, David C.
- Abstract
In recent years joint labor-management productivity committees have been instituted by all levels of government in the U.S. Creating such a program involves a massive amount of time, money, and manpower. Little has been done on codifying and categorizing labor-management committees. Recent initiatives point to four areas as the key to program success, that are planning, union-management attitudes, collective bargaining versus productivity issues, and program evaluation. Along with comprehensive planning, recent joint productivity experiments emphasize the importance of union and management attitudes in sustaining program success. Many studies have found cooperative attitude between labor and management and a favorable perception of productivity to be the most important indicators of program success. Joint productivity programs are fragile institutions. Poor organizational planning, union mistrust, the overlap of collective bargaining issues, and inattention to program evaluation are common problems encountered by them.
- Subjects
UNITED States; LABOR productivity; LABOR-management committees; UNITED States politics &; government; GOVERNMENT agencies; GOVERNMENT programs; INDUSTRIAL relations
- Publication
Public Administration Review, 1978, Vol 38, Issue 2, p184
- ISSN
0033-3352
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/976296