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Summarizing the critical changes affecting labor relations in the global marketplace, this comprehensive text outlines problems and provides strategies for success in the dynamically evolving work environment. Blending description, analysis, and empirical research into a thorough overview of the field, the authors discuss court decisions and collective bargaining and labor relations at all levels of government. In addition to a compendium of research resources, this classroom-friendly edition includes more new case studies illustrating key examples. The third edition retains the successful features of previous editions and combines expertise from both academic and professional perspectives.
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Best Single Text Available.......2006-07-21
I teach collective bargaining & labor relations in the Master of Public Administration (MPA) program at the University of New Hampshire. Kearney's book is the sole comprehensive text on public sector labor relations available at this time. Its thorough coverage includes the history of public sector labor relations, the ins & outs of collective bargaining, the impacts on budgets and personnel policies, and much more. I've used it as the primary text in a graduate-level course, supplemented by journal articles and case studies. Several students remarked that the book was detailed yet readable, as well as realistic (students often catch on when an author has never been a practitioner of the subject matter). I recommend this book for courses in public sector labor relations, and it would be useful in most Public Administration programs. A good complement to this text is Najita and Stern's Collective Bargaining in the Public Sector: The Experience of Eight States, a reader of case studies that illustrate most of the concepts described by Kearney.
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Collective Bargaining in the Public Sector: The Experience of Eight States (Issues in Work and Human Resources)
Manufacturer: M.E. Sharpe
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Useful but Dry.......2007-05-04
I think this is a useful book of case studies, most applicable to a public sector labor relations or public administration class. The cases are structured so that students can easily compare key concepts in public sector labor relations from state to state. For example, having read the applicable chapters, students should find it relatively easy to discuss the scope of bargaining in New Jersey and compare it to the scope of bargaining in Pennsylvania. However, when I have assigned this book, students have given me negative feedback on it, complaining that it is tedious. Despite this, I would consider using it again.
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Public Sector Employment in a Time of Transition (Industrial Relations Research Association Series)
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The public sector seems to be in the early stages of a profound transition, similar in scale to the transformation of private sector industrial relations in the 1970s and 1980s. This volume analyzes elements in what is variously described as reinventing government, re-engineering the public sector, and instituting performance-based government. The contributors suggest the new system will be shaped by two main strategies now being followed. One emphasizes improving the efficiency of government through innovative practices and a movement away from the bureaucratic, civil service model. The other stresses cost cutting as an end in itself. While the first strategy offers improved services and a more involved workforce, the implicit goals of the second are often service reduction, downsizing government, privatization of service provision, and reductions in real compensation. This volume deals with the full scope of public employment relations, including issues of labor adjustment, workplace practices and human resource management policies, as well as alternative dispute resolution procedures and labor-management cooperation in the collective bargaining arena.
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- Public Works, Public Sector Unions, and Anti-Union Movement
- Excellent book!
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Public Workers: Government Employee Unions, the Law, and the State, 1900-1962 (ILR Press Books)
Joseph E. Slater
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From the dawn of the twentieth century to the early 1960s, public-sector unions generally had no legal right to strike, bargain, or arbitrate, and government workers could be fired simply for joining a union. Public Workers is the first book to analyze why public-sector labor law evolved as it did, separate from and much more restrictive than private sector labor law, and what effect this law had on public-sector unions, organized labor as a whole, and by extension all of American politics. Joseph E. Slater shows how public-sector unions survived, represented their members, and set the stage for the most remarkable growth of worker organization in American history.
Slater examines the battles of public-sector unions in the workplace, courts, and political arena, from the infamous Boston police strike of 1919, to teachers in Seattle fighting a yellow-dog rule, to the BSEIU in the 1930s representing public-sector janitors, to the fate of the powerful Transit Workers Union after New York City purchased the subways, to the long struggle by AFSCME that produced the nation's first public-sector labor law in Wisconsin in 1959. Slater introduces readers to a determined and often-ignored segment of the union movement and expands our knowledge of working men and women, the institutions they formed, and the organizational obstacles they faced.
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Public Works, Public Sector Unions, and Anti-Union Movement.......2004-07-06
This is the definitive read on the history and development of public sector labor unions. Based on exhaustive research, Professor Slater's insights on the perceived conflict between public section unions and democracy and good government provide a solid basis on which on understand the current rhetoric on whether new institutions like the TSA or Homeland Security Agency should be permitted to organize and act collectively. He clearly demonstrated, through historical examples, that this rhetorical strategy although superficially persuasive, and even some courts have bought into this rhetoric, it does not reflect the reality of the modern public sector labor union. This book is the seminal work in the field and should be assigned in any class interested in the modern labor movement, public sector labor unions or public sector labor law, or courses on goverment and unionism.
Excellent book!.......2004-02-19
A wonderful book that anyone intrested in labor law, labor history and labor policy ought to read.
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Collective Bargaining in the Public Sector
Alan Edward Bent , and
T.Zane Reeves
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Bargaining Beyond Impasse: Joint Resolution of Public Sector Labor Disputes
Jonathan Brock
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Bargaining representation and union membership in the federal sector: a free rider's paradise.: An article from: Public Personnel Management
Marick F. Masters , and
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Title: Bargaining representation and union membership in the federal sector: a free rider's paradise.
Author: Marick F. Masters
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Public Personnel Management (Refereed)
Date: September 22, 1989
Publisher: International Personnel Management Association
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Collective Bargaining
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Collective Bargaining is an up to date, comprehensive handbook about public sector negotiations in the context of New York's public schools. But even if your practice does not encompass public school labor relations, you will find collective bargaining an indespensible tool to understanding and applying New York's public sector labor law. It contains complete, easy-to-read explanation of the Taylor Law, as well as analysis of clauses that are common in public sector collective bargaining agreements.
Collective Bargaining is a valuable 364 page reference that also includes:
-More than 1,000 citations to hundreds of court and PERB decisions.
-Recent changes in the scope of bargaining and the latest rule changes by PERB.
-An extensive appendix on mandatory and nonmandatory subjects of bargaining.
-A glossary of commonly used terms in school negotiations.
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Collective Bargaining and Impasse Resolution in Public Sector
David A. Dilts , and
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Although much has been written concerning labor relations and collective bargaining in the private sector, negotiators working in public sector employer-employee relations have been handicapped by the paucity of practical information relating to the specific demands of their field. Responding to an evident need, Dilts and Walsh supply detailed guidelines for the practicing negotiator and at the same time enlarge our knowledge of an area that is of increasing significance to academics and professionals alike. They provide in-depth explanations of the principles and practices of fact-finding, interest arbitration, mediation, contract negotiation, and impasse resolution procedures for the public sector, with particular emphasis on labor relations problems confronting state and local governments. The first four chapters outline the basics of public sector collective bargaining. Labor law, contract negotiations, impasse creation, negotiation strategies and tactics, and relevant economic and behavioral issues are discussed. The steps typically found in statutory impasse resolution procedures are examined. The authors next focus on mediation techniques, the situations in which they most often prove successful, and the procedures used in fact-finding and interest arbitration hearings. They explain the differing decisional standards employed by arbitrators and fact-finders in cases involving economic issues and language issues. Other topics covered are factors affecting impasse resolution, the effects of impasse resolution on labor relations, guidelines for utilizing fact-finding reports and interest arbitration awards, and experimental impasse resolution techniques that have been applied in the public sector. The most comprehensive, practitioner-oriented work in its field, this volume will be of value to professionals, e.g., union and management officials and representatives, and academics concerned with public sector labor-management relations, labor law, and human resources management.
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This is a remarkable book that every student and parent should read before applying to college. It explains the rules and how to play the game successfully. Well-written and up-to-date, Admission Matters offers important insights into the college admission process, as well as important practical advice they can implement all along the way.
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good book.......2007-07-15
The best book I read so far. As an admission consultant, I think it covers the basic information that parents and kids should know. I even met her in person this year. There is one little problem about this book - it is two years old. So new things happened within these two years have not yet been covered, such as the SMART grant (new for year 2007).
Amazing resource for anyone with admissions question.......2006-10-11
As a high school senior, I've been having the usual problems with finding a college that I feel is right for me, and then actually going about the process of applying. Not only was this book helpful in answering nearly all of my questions, but it is written in an interesting, friendly manner that I found heartening in the midst of a process that has been incredibley stressful! I recommend this book not only to high school students but their parents as well - my Mother read it and she loved it too!
Admission Matters.......2006-02-25
This book is clearly written and an excellent guide for the high school student and parents.
the best college admissions book I've seen.......2005-12-16
This is an outstanding book. What I appreciate most about it is its thoughtfulness. Where other books present statistics and give only brief attention to very important topics, this book presents a fair, smart, and thorough account of the World of Admissions and encourages you to sit down and think about things, guiding you along each step of the process.
Wonderful Resource!.......2005-11-03
"Admission Matters" attracted me for a number of reasons--the background, experience and knowledge of the authors is compelling, but moreover I chose this book because as the parent of three with two already in college and the third an applicant now, I was hopeful that I would find new details and advice regarding the competitive hurdles that my youngest will be facing. My hopes were more than fulfilled! This book is an engaging and informative resource that blends just the right amount of humor, candor, anectodal details, encouragement and reality for parents and their college bound kids. It is also organized to facilitate quick reads of sections and question areas of greatest interest. This is a refreshing and valuable guide in the high-anxiety sea of college planning.
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From the author of Four Critical Years--a book the Journal of Higher Education called the most cited work in higher education literature--What Matters in College? presents the definitive study of how students change and develop in college and how colleges can enhance that development. Based on a study of more than 20,000 students, 25,000 faculty members, and 200 institutions, the book shows how academic programs, faculty, student peer groups, and other variables affect students' college experiences.
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Follow-up to a classic.......2001-04-18
This is Astin's follow-up to his classic "Four Critical Years", which was one of the most cited books in the higher education literature. This book sums up some of Astin's more recent research and is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand what a college education is all about. This book is jam-packed with REAL research!
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Intended as a toolkit for academic administrators, faculty and researchers to deal effectively with the rapid emergence of competency-based learning models across higher education, this volume provides practical advice and proven techniques for implementing and evaluating these models. Drawing from a recent National Postsecondary Education Cooperative project that examined data and policy implications across public and private institutions as well as an industrial setting, readers will find an inventory of strong practices to utilize in evaluating competency-based initiatives. Issues discussed include practical concerns of measuring and reporting competency; the critical connections between the skills employers seek and student preparation for them; the connections between distance education, accrediation, and competencies; and the difficult procedure of setting appropriate passing standards for assessments. With a bibliography on competency literature and a framework for creating competency models, this volume is an invaluable tool to researchers and practitioners alike.
This is the 110th issue of the Jossey-Bass series New Directions for Institutional Research.
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Competency Based Education in Higher Education.......2005-09-17
This book makes two significant contributions to the discussion of implementing Competency Based Education (CBE) in higher education. First, much of the literature on CBE is focused on the challenges of implementing CBE within elementary and secondary schools. For that reason alone, many in higher education dismiss CBE as irrelevant to its mission believing, instead, that its applicability is limited to those primary and secondary school settings. That, in itself, makes this an important book. As an edited volume it offers a variety of perspectives on CBE developed within different types of institutional settings and relating CBE to a wide range of concerns common to most institutions of higher education: assessment and retention, improving student learning, distance education and accreditation issues and the demand for increased institutional accountability. Second, the volume concludes with an excellent annotated bibliography that will point the reader in new directions for continued research. This is an essential primary resource for anyone interested in this topic.
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Comprehending College Textbooks: Steps To Understanding and Remembering What You Read
Joe Cortina ,
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Katherine Gonnett
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Created for developmental reading and study skills courses,
Comprehending College Textbooks focuses on college textbook reading comprehension. The text provides a systematic approach to the reading process and reinforces concepts, skills, and strategies through practice and effective repetition.
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The future of student afffairs in the community college depends on practitioners' ability to provide programs and services that really matter to the institution's bottom line: student learning and student success.
This volume uses the results of a national survey of community college leaders to identify the major challenges and opportunities facing student affairs practitioners in the community college and to describe the most effective strategies for meeting these challenges. Chapter authors discuss the profession's core values, explore the need to replace anecdotal cultures with cultures of evidence, identify support services that really matter, examine opportunities for partnerships with faculty, evaluate the significance of emerging research on career counseling and support for students from populations historically underrepresented in higer education, and provide tools practitioners can use to assess the institutional climate for mearsure the effectiveness of student affairs programs and services at their institutions. IN addition, each chapter offer numerous examples of best practices in community college student affairs programming.
This is the 131st volume of the Jossey-Bass quarterly report series
New Directions for Community Colleges.
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Don't buy it- try Ebsco Host.......2007-08-01
This was on the required book list for class so I bought it. I felt extremely stupid later when I figured out that the entire thing was available through the library's online service. It probably is at your school as well.
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Author: Elizabeth Mayer
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Title: Instant expert: the stuff that matters: just warming up to the college football season? What's wrong with you? This'll toast your tootsies in a hurry.(COLLEGE FOOTBALL: SECOND HALF PREVIEW)
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Title: The new 'A's' of higher education: accessibility, affordability, and accountability are what matter most these days.(END NOTE)
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What Is The Matter With Colleges?
Elbert Hubbard
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THIS 7 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Philistia: Elbert Hubbard's Selected Writings Part 9, by Elbert Hubbard. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 0766103900.
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