This paper examines employee reactions to the introduction of work teams, reduced job classifications, and skill-based pay as established through the Modern Operating Agreement (MOA) between Chrysler Corporation and the United Auto Workers. Survey data suggest that workers responded favorably to...

This paper, drawing on interviews conducted in 1989 and 1990 with directors nominated by unions to American corporate boards of directors, shows that union choices in the establishment of board representation in the 1980s reflected union strategy and structure. Those choices, in turn,...

This case study of the Communications Workers of America (CWA) demonstrates the value of resource dependence and contingency organizational theories - two branches of organization theory, which has most commonly been used to interpret firm behavior - for analyzing union revitalization....