The Charon Response looks at how business firms should deal with the human and emotional consequences of a major work force reduction. Such reductions are a regular feature of the corporate landscape and can be handled in a caring manner if management so chooses. Due to the intense emotions...

It has been argued that the social and informational cues within the work environment need to be investigated to better understand and identify a nomological network underlying the psychological contract construct. This study is one of the first to investigate how employees may use social and...

A model is proposed that regards cooperative relationships between union and management as having three distinct forms. Problem-Solving is the most basic with employee problem-solving groups appended to existing union and management structures and processes. In the Team Concept the...