The alternative dispute resolution movement arose to provide more efficient and less expensive methods of setting disputes than are provided by the court system. This study focuces on one of these methods-mediation. The authors outlines the key elements of a successful mediation process, the...

Over the past five years there has been significant attention paid to health care restructuring, downsizing, and rationalization. However, there was relatively little research on the relationship between workforce reduction strategies and organizational impacts. A new study presents results of a...

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,...

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...

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.

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?...