Collective bargaining is a process of negotiation between employers and a group of employees aimed at agreements to regulate working salaries, working conditions, benefits, and other aspects of workers' compensation and rights for workers. The interests of the employees are commonly presented by representatives of a trade union to which the employees belong. The collective agreements reached by these negotiations usually set out wage scales, working hours, training, health and safety, overtime, grievance mechanisms, and rights to participate in workplace or company affairs.
The School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University (ILR) is an industrial relations school at Cornell University, located in Ithaca, New York, United States. The School has six academic departments which include: Economics, Human Resource Management, International and Comparative Labor, Labor Relations, Organizational Behavior; and Social Statistics.
John Thomas Dunlop was an American administrator and labor scholar.
Human resource management is the strategic approach to the effective management of people in an organization so that they help the business to gain a competitive advantage. It is designed to maximize employee performance in service of an employer's strategic objectives. HR is primarily concerned with the management of people within organizations, focusing on policies and on systems. HR departments are responsible for overseeing employee-benefits design, employee recruitment, training and development, performance appraisal, and Reward management. HR also concerns itself with organizational change and industrial relations, that is, the balancing of organizational practices with requirements arising from collective bargaining and from governmental laws.
The School of Labor and Employment Relations (LER) is a graduate school at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. Founded in 1946, the school is the second oldest labor and industrial relations school in the nation. Students at Illinois can earn a Master of Human Resources and Industrial Relations or a PhD in Industrial Relations. The school focuses on the MHRIR program. Until August 2008, LER was known as the Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations. In spring, 2015, the master's program expanded to accommodate an online program targeted to working professionals.
Roy J. Adams is a Canadian-American academic, author, adventurer, labour rights activist and poet.
Dr. Gregory Koutmos is Gerald M. Levin Professor of Finance and Chair of the Finance Department of the Charles F. Dolan School of Business at Fairfield University in Fairfield, Connecticut. He is an authority in the field of financial markets volatility, equilibrium asset pricing models, and fixed income securities and risk hedging.
Thomas A. Kochan is a professor of industrial relations, work and employment. He is the George Maverick Bunker Professor of Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management, where he has been a faculty member since 1980.
Cesario Alvero Azucena Jr., popularly known as Ces Azucena or C.A. Azucena, is a prominent labor lawyer, professor, management consultant, and author in the Philippines.
Andrew Marshall Pettigrew is Professor of Strategy and Organisation at the Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford. A British professor, he was formerly dean of the University of Bath School of Management. He received his training in sociology and anthropology at Liverpool University and received his Ph.D. from Manchester Business School in 1970. He has held academic appointments at Yale University, Harvard University, London Business School and Warwick Business School.
Maria Nieves R. Confesor, popularly known as Nieves Confesor, is the former Executive Director of the Asian Institute of Management (AIM) TeaM Energy Center for Bridging Leadership.
Peter J. Pestillo is the former Chairman and CEO of Visteon based in Dearborn, Michigan from January 1, 2000 to May 31, 2004. Pestillo became the first CEO and chairman of the Visteon when it was spun off from Ford Motor Company. The new company was created in an effort headed by Pestillo.
Morris M. Kleiner is an American academic. Kleiner received his M.A. and Ph.D. in economics from the University of Illinois and his undergraduate degree from Bradley University. He is a professor and AFL-CIO chair in labor policy at the Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. From 1974 to 1987 he was an assistant and later full professor at the School of Business at the University of Kansas.
The University of Sydney Business School is the business faculty and a constituent body of the University of Sydney. It was established in January 2011 and formed from the School of Business within the previous Faculty of Economics and Business. The former combined faculty itself descended from the original Faculty of Economics founded in 1920, which was the first faculty of its kind in Australia.
Karen E. Boroff is an educator, researcher, and administrator in American higher education. She is the former dean of Seton Hall University’s Stillman School of Business. She is noted for her focus on integrity, innovation and excellence in leading the School to increased prominence within the State of New Jersey and nationally.
Carlos M. Cardoso is an American businessman and formerly chairman, president and chief executive officer of Kennametal, a metalworking and tool production company headquartered in Latrobe, Pennsylvania.
Anne Evans Estabrook is an American real estate developer who was the frontrunner in the Republican primary for the 2008 United States Senate race in New Jersey before suffering a mini-stroke and withdrawing from the race.
Dr. Jacob Seidenberg (1914–1996) was an American government official who specialized in labor arbitration and non-discrimination contracts, and wrote extensively on labor law and negotiations.
Edward Wight Bakke was an American sociology and economics professor at Yale University who achieved prominence in the field of industrial relations. He was a Sterling Professor, Yale's highest level of academic rank, and served as director of the Yale Labor and Management Center from its founding in 1945 until its dissolution in the late 1950s. The author, co-author, or co-editor of thirteen books, Bakke made major contributions to the study of unemployment and organizational theory.
Donald E. Gibson is an American academic administrator and author. He is a professor of management and dean of the Fairfield University Dolan School of Business and former executive director of the International Association for Conflict Management.
