The Mutual Gains Enterprise: Forging a Winning Partnership Among Labor, Management, and Government [Hardcover]

Thomas A. Kochan (Author), Paul Osterman (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 1, 1994 | ISBN-10: 0875843948 | ISBN-13: 978-0875843940 | Edition: First Printing

In this text, the authors identify the barriers that block true reform, and propose a "mutual gains policy framework" which emphasizes how management, labour and government need to engage in change together to achieve long-term viability. Their carefully-considered proposals, taken from the best practices of specific firms, state governments and foreign business, bring rhetoric into reality, as they identify how their plan can be implemented.

Editorial Reviews

From Library Journal

Kochan and Osterman, professors at MIT and human resource specialists, use many and varied case studies to illustrate the advantages of labor-management cooperation to accomplish specific goals. They stress the importance of unions, management, and the government working together and discuss key points in educating and training employees to achieve such cooperation-training that is routinely given in Japan and Europe and in foreign-owned plants in the United States. Only Edward Cohen-Rosenthal's Mutual Gains: A Guide to Union-Management Co-Operation (Greenwood, 1986) offers comparable insights on this subject. A thorough addition to this topic, Kochan and Osterman's work could become a classic in the field.
Joan A. Traugott, MSLS, West Babylon, N.Y.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 272 pages
• Publisher: Harvard Business Press; First Printing edition (July 1, 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0875843948
• ISBN-13: 978-0875843940
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.4 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,802,288 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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