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>I would like to have a better understanding of the expectations that
>employees have about their employers. Hence, I would appreciate if you
>could share yours by kindly replying to the 3 SHORT QUESTIONS BELOW.
For a fairly comprehensive academic discussion of this issue (and lots of
new references to look up....the snowball is HUGE!)
SEE:
Ewing, D. (1977) 'What business thinks about employee rights' ?Harvard
Business Review ??
Fortado, B. (1994) "Informal Supervisory Social Control Strategies" J of
Management Studies, vol 31(2), 251-274.
___, (1992) "Subordinate Views in Supervisory Conflict Situations: Peering
into the Subcultural Chasm" Human Relations, vol.45(11) 1141-1167.
___ and Salipante, P (1991) "The Practical View of Employee Rights" Employee
Responsibilities and Rights Journal, vol.4(2), 87-106.
Lind, E.A. & Tyler, T.T. (19xx) (?77?) The Social Psychology of Procedural
Justice, New York: Plenum Press.
Merry, S. and Silby, S. (1984). 'What do plaintiffs want: Re-examining the
concept of dispute'. Justice System Journal 9:151
Salipante, P. & Bouwen, R. (1991) "The Social Construction of Grievances:
Organizational Conflict as Multiple Perspectives". In K.. Gergen & P.
Dachler (eds.) Towards a Relational Theory of Organizations, Thousand Oaks,
CA: Sage.
Salipante, P and Fortado, B (19xx) "Employee Rights: Required versus
Desired". In C.A.B. Osigweh,Yg (ed.) Managing Employee Rights and
Responsibilities, New York: Quorum Books, 210-228.
This is a list I pulled off the top of my head (actually out of one of my
reference lists) and although every one may not be EXACTLY on target - they
all deal with the topic
There are lots of others - check the literature on 'psychological
contracts', also stuff on reciprocity, exchange theory, and tons of stuff in
organizational justice - especially the procedural justice stuff. Exciting
things are also coming out on hidden conflict.
Much of the more recent literature (eg post 1990) deals more specifically
with employee issues, although don't neglect the classics, either - I think
Mechanic in the early 60's wrote something, also Gouldner is sort of on
topic and you might find some stuff in the 'theory x - theory y' stuff way
back - (I think it was McClelland, but I'm not sure - it's in the old HR
literature.)
As you can suspect - I am very interested in this issue - my dissertaion
topic is on hidden conflict in organizations - which has to do with all of
the above as well as I'll-never-get-through-it-all tons of other stuff from
anthropology, sociology, psychology, classical literature, labor relations,
conflict management, org theory etc etc etc. I would be interested in
conversing with others on this wavelength
efw2@po.cwru.edu
E. Faye Wright,
Case Western Reserve University,
WSOM, Department of Labor and Human Resources Policy,
10900 Euclid Ave.
Cleveland, OH 44106
"Better to understand a little
Than to misunderstand a lot..."