Communicating Employee Responsibilities And Rights: A Modern Management Mandate [Hardcover]

Understanding the array of occupational rights that give meaning to the emerging demands, expectations, and role responsibilities in the modern workplace is of critical importance. Equally important is achieving an understanding of the evolving workplace practices these rights mandate. Employer and employee understanding of these considerations offers enormous potential for avoiding situations that provoke and escalate conflicts in the contemporary workplace. At the heart of all of this is the need for clear, consistent, and effective communication in the modern organization. This book, containing contributions by outstanding scholars and practitioners in the fields of communication, organizational psychology and management, law, personnel, and industrial and labor relations, addresses the issues involved in communicating employee responsiblities and rights.CHIMEZIE A.B. OSIGWEH, YG., Professor of Management and Director of Personnel and Industrial Relations Research at Norwalk State University, is President of The Council on Employee Responsibilities and Rights in Virginia Beach, Virginia.

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Preface
Part I. Introduction
Communication, Responsibilities and Pro-Rights Revolution in the Industrial Workplace by Chimezie A.B. Osigweh, Yg.
Defining and Communicating Employee and Employer Rights in an Institutional Context by Patricia H. Werhane
Employee Rights from the Government Perspective: An Overview from the Practicing Attorney's Viewpoint by Tommy W. Taylor and Penny J. White
Part II. Employee Rights and Responsibilites Communication: Selected Issues and Organizational Delivery Systems
Freedom of Speech and Private Sector At-Will Employment: Implications for Society, the Individual, and Management by Wayne Sanders
Nonunion Employee Rights to Continued Employment by Darryel Robards
Employee Participation in Organizational Decision-Making: Caught in the Squeeze by Jo E. Keller
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