基本説明
Considers the question of how workplace disputes are raised in the absense of formal hierarchy.
Full Description
Understanding the complex dynamics involved in workplace disputes helps improve the way organizations deal with unwelcome but inevitable occurrences. These issues have been researched from different perspectives, but previously such research has failed to ask how flattened organizational form might impact ways of resolving disputes, focusing instead on what occurs in conventional, hierarchical organizations only. In Co-operative Workplace Dispute Resolution, Elizabeth Hoffmann considers the question of how workplace disputes are raised in the absence of formal hierarchy. In contrast to conventionally organized businesses, co-operatives attempt to evenly distribute power and ownership and encourage worker control through egalitarian ideologies, flattened management structures and greater information sharing. Like conventional businesses, though, they still pursue goals relating to profit and efficiency. Dr Hoffmann argues that lessening hierarchy and sharing power, as occurs in co-operatives, provides insight into how greater worker involvement and ownership might operate in a less extreme and more modest form in conventional mainstream business. This book focuses on dispute resolution strategies at matched pairs of worker co-operatives and conventional businesses in three very different industries: coal mining, taxicab driving, and wholefood distribution. The author's central finding is that the worker co-operative members have access to more dispute resolution strategies than their conventionally employed counterparts. This leads to the conclusion that benefits might be achieved by conventional businesses that wish to embrace specific attributes usually associated with co-operatives, including management-employee cooperation, shared ownership, or greater workplace equality.
Contents
List of Abbreviations; Acknowledgments; About the Author; Introduction; Chapter 1 What Are Worker Co-operatives?; Chapter 2 What is Workplace Dispute Resolution?; Chapter 3 Three Different Worker Co-operatives; Chapter 4 Mining the Depths of Co-ownership: The Coal Industry; Chapter 5 Legal Consciousness on the Road: The Taxicab Industry; Chapter 6 Loyalty Instead of Leaving: Dispute Resolution in the Organics Industry; Chapter 7 Co-operative Struggles: Struggles Toward the Goal of Equality; Chapter 8 Lessons for the Rest of Us: The Co-operative Landscape;
