Many unions around the globe have been experiencing a drop in membership and a decline in density over the last ten years. The union response, as documented in this paper based on a survey of innovations and change in Canadian labour organizations, has been both defensive and pro-active,...

Pay-for-knowledge (PFK) compensation plans have been in existence for better part of three decades, yet we know little about the organizational infrastructure necessary to support these plans. This fact is the catalyst for this paper. The purpose of this paper is to review the literature on PFK...

Workplaces in Canada have experienced a wide variety of changes over the past two decades. This paper presents highlights of the results of a major survey of unions on their perceptions of the impact of change initiatives and their responses to initiatives.

If Canadian industries are to compete successfully in the new economy, unions and management must move away from their traditional adersarial relationships. This study analyzes a conflict resolution method, known as Relationships by Objectives (RBO), that directs unions and management away from...

In the era of the knowledge-based economomy and continuous learning. Pay-for-knowledge (PFK) conpensation plans have received an over increasing amount of attention from both practitioners and researchers. However, the implementation of a PFK compensation plan does not auarantee that plan's...

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In the face of increasing corporate internationalism, and the implications for movement of production, capital, and jobs from one country to another, the union movement has increasingly faced changes to the nature of the worker-management relationship. Central to the changing relationship is the...

In recent years more focus on resolving differences has brought attention to several aspects of dispute resolution including internal dispute resolution. provides the practitioner with a hands on approach to constructing an effective IDR program. Ryan identifes the emerging IDR processes, IDR's...

This study decribes the typical effects of the merger process on the people involved and, using the merger between Molson Breweries and Carling O'keefe as an example, identifies the crucial role that human resource professionals must play in ensuring merger success.

How do survivors of downsizing react to the initial effort? What sort of impact does it have on career objectives, commitment to the organization, job satisfaction? Do workers realize that over the past decade the traditionally linear career path has been warped, skewed, and in some cases split?...