Publications

May 1984 (Revised August 1995)
Teaching Note

Organized Labor and the Worker, Teaching Note

By: Richard S. Tedlow

Teaching Note for (9-391-256). View Details

Keywords: Labor Unions

May 1984 (Revised May 1989)
Case

Cleveland Twist Drill (B)

By: Richard G. Hamermesh

Describes events at Cleveland Twist Drill between April 1982 and February 1983. Jim Bartlett's approach to the union and the implementation of the "move strategy" are described. Students are asked to evaluate these actions and to develop plans for dealing with current... View Details

Keywords: History; Management Style; Leadership Style; Standards; Power and Influence

April 1984 (Revised May 1986)
Case

Union Tank Car Co.

By: W. Carl Kester

April 1984
Background Note

Export Controls

By: David B. Yoffie

Explores the problems and opportunities associated with export controls--one of the most widely used tools of international trade policy in the 1970s and early 1980s; and the role of the United States and Soviet Union as major players in the international economy.... View Details

Keywords: Macroeconomics; Trade; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Policy; Problems and Challenges; Opportunities; Soviet Union; United States

April 1984 (Revised June 1986)
Case

Soviet Gas Pipeline

By: David B. Yoffie

Keywords: Energy Industry; Soviet Union

October 1983 (Revised May 1984)
Case

From Lean Years to Fat Years: The Labor Movement Between the Wars

By: Richard S. Tedlow

Keywords: History; Labor Unions; Labor and Management Relations

April 1983
Article

Productivity and Labor Unions: An Application of the Theory of Self-Enforcing Contracts

By: Carliss Y. Baldwin

Keywords: Labor Unions; Contracts; Theory

October 1982 (Revised September 1986)
Case

Coal Strike of 1977-78 (A) (Condensed)

By: D. Quinn Mills

Keywords: Labor Unions; Labor and Management Relations; Mining Industry

June 1982
Case

Union Pacific Railroad Co.

By: Roy D. Shapiro

Keywords: Rail Transportation; Rail Industry

May 1982 (Revised June 1982)
Case

Air Traffic Controllers

By: Michael Beer

On August 3, 1981 President Ronald Reagan terminated 12,000 air traffic controllers, members of the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization, for violating their no-strike oath. Provides background on the human resources policies and practices of the Federal... View Details

Keywords: Resignation and Termination; Labor and Management Relations; Government and Politics; Labor Unions; Negotiation; Employees; Air Transportation Industry; United States

April 1982 (Revised September 1986)
Case

Ideal Standard France: Pat Paterson

By: Christopher A. Bartlett

A newly appointed country subsidiary manager must decide on action for an operation losing $1 million per month. He is constrained by price controls on one hand and sensitive union relations on the other. Furthermore a major loss-contributing plant has recently been... View Details

Keywords: Business Subsidiaries; Transition; Cost Management; Management; Crisis Management; Labor and Management Relations

January 1981 (Revised June 1993)
Background Note

Note on Why Employees Join Unions

By: Michael Beer

Provides some answers to the question of why employees join unions. Summarizes recent data on workers' perceptions of unions: their power and instrumentality. Also explores the special situation of white collar workers. View Details

Keywords: Labor Unions; Employees; Social Psychology

April 1980 (Revised September 1985)
Background Note

The Disposable Diaper Industry in 1974

By: Michael E. Porter

Describes the rapidly growing disposable diaper industry in 1974, a period in which Procter and Gamble's industry leadership faced strong challenges from Kimberly Clark, Johnson and Johnson, and Union Carbide. The latter two firms were in the process of entry into the... View Details

Keywords: Market Entry and Exit; Competition; Consumer Products Industry