BIOTECHNOLOGY: Labor Relations

Labor Management Relations

Labor-management relations are the interacting relations between labor and management. The purpose of our study is to find out the worker wage satisfaction, worker satisfaction with supervisory behavior and worker satisfaction with welfare items. This cross sectional study was conducted from October 2010 to January 2011. A group of 200 employees was take part in this study through a predesigned...

Concentrated Ownership and Labor Relations∗

We show that differences in the quality of labor relations across countries can help to explain cross-country differences in ownership concentration. Controlling for minority shareholder protection, countries in which labor relations are hostile tend to have more concentrated ownership than countries in which labor relations are cooperative. Union strength, labor regulation, and the political o...

Family Firms and Labor Relations

Empirical evidence suggests that family ownership has important implications for economic growth. Several studies find that family firms—at least secondand later-generation family firms in which the chief executive officer (CEO) is a family member, especially if CEO succession is based on primogeniture—perform relatively poorly (e.g., Francisco Pérez-González 2006; Morten Bennedsen et al. 2007;...

The Chaplain and Labor Relations

Chaplaincy Today • Volume 23 Number 1 • Spring/Summer 2007 AS A HOSPITAL CHAPLAIN, you recently noticed flyers in a break room cryptically urging employees to “unite.” Yesterday you overheard one nurse’s aide whisper to another about a “special meeting” after work. Today a nurse manager has asked if you’ve “heard anything” from employees about forming a union. How do you respond to her question...

Imagining U.S. Labor Relations without Union Security