Publications

December 1984
Teaching Note

First National Bank of Lake City (A), Teaching Note

By: Michael Beer

Teaching Note for (9-474-139). View Details

Keywords: Labor Unions; Banks and Banking; Banking Industry

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December 1984
Teaching Note

General Motors and the United Auto Workers (Condensed), Teaching Note

By: Michael Beer

Keywords: Labor Unions; Auto Industry

December 1984
Article

The Evolution of the Labor Market for Medical Interns and Residents: A Case Study in Game Theory

By: A. E. Roth

Keywords: Labor; Markets; Theory; Games, Gaming, and Gambling

December 1984
Article

Unionization and Profitability: Evidence from the Capital Market

By: M. B. Zimmerman and R. S. Ruback

Keywords: Labor Unions; Profit; Information; Markets; Finance

1984
Chapter

Variations in Managerial Career Structures in High Technology Firms: The Impact of Organizational Characteristics on Internal Labor Market Patterns

By: R. M. Kanter

Keywords: Personal Development and Career; Organizational Design; Technology Industry

October 1984
Case

Transition from Contract to Consensus at General Motors

By: George C. Lodge

Keywords: Labor and Management Relations; Labor Unions; Human Resources; Management

August 1984
Case

American Industrial Health Council (Condensed)

By: Joseph L. Bower

Keywords: Working Conditions; Business and Government Relations

June 1984 (Revised August 1995)
Teaching Note

Labor Movement Between the Wars, Teaching Note

Keywords: Labor Unions

May 1984 (Revised August 1995)
Teaching Note

Organized Labor and the Worker, Teaching Note

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Keywords: Labor Unions

January 1984
Article

Stability and Polarization of Interests in Job Matching

By: A. E. Roth

Keywords: Employment

November 1983
Background Note

Note on Labor-Management Cooperation

By: D. Quinn Mills and Mary Lou Balbaky

Keywords: Labor and Management Relations

November 1983 (Revised March 1995)
Case

Federal Government and Employment

Provides a vehicle for a discussion of the Employment Act of 1946. View Details

Keywords: Employment; Government Legislation; United States

October 1983 (Revised May 1984)
Case

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

Keywords: History; Labor Unions; Labor and Management Relations

September 1983 (Revised December 1988)
Case

Cleveland Twist Drill (A)

By: Richard G. Hamermesh

Deals with the problems of implementing strategy in a declining industry and the negotiation of strategy with external constituencies, particularly labor unions. Traces Jim Bartlett's first nine months as president and asks for a plan of action. View Details

Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Management Style; Negotiation Tactics; Labor and Management Relations; Corporate Strategy

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1983
Chapter

On the Role of Social Security as a Means for Efficient Risk-Bearing in an Economy Where Human Capital is Not Tradeable

By: Robert C. Merton

Keywords: Risk Management; Human Capital; Compensation and Benefits

Article

Wage-Employment Contracts

By: Jerry R. Green and Charles M. Kahn

This paper studies the efficient agreements about the dependence of workers' earnings on employment, when the employment level is controlled by firms. The firms' superior information about profitability conditions is responsible for this form of contract governance.... View Details

Keywords: Labor; Wages; Contracts