An objective record is presented of the processes that led to faculty collective bargaining at Chicago State University (CSU), based principally on the published proceedings of the Board of Governors of State Colleges and Universities of the State of Illinois. The study presents chronologically the official record of the CSU faculty-governing…

This 715-item bibliography on teacher-school board negotiations updates the earlier bibliography by Owen G. Arnold and John Gordon Taylor published by Phi Delta Kappa in 1967. This revision contains more than double the number of items which appeared in the earlier publication, indicating the expansion of the field. Items cited, dating from 1956…

This publication is part of a three-volume series of manuals designed to serve both as instructional guides and as ready references to some of the more complex problems of public school collective bargaining. The series is intended for use primarily by school board members, educational administrators, and other individuals interested in collective…

This guide is designed to help the supervisor conduct effective counseling interviews with his employees. It consists of the following sections: (1) a general description of the counseling interview; (2) a discussion of the individual and the job; (3) suggestions on conducting the interview (considering what to do before, during and after the…

The idea of using groups, rather than individuals, as the basic building blocks for an organization is suggested in this paper. Although this idea is not new in theory, it is new in practice. To design an organization from scratch around groups appears to violate the American value of individualism. Groups, however, have advantages over…

It is possible to remain faithful to the general intentions of management by objectives (MBO) while boiling it down to four major points. First, MBO places the emphasis on results rather than on resources or the ways in which resources are utilized. Second, responsibility for achieving these results is shared jointly by the superior and his…

This booklet presents findings of a study conducted to explore the status of the emerging position of school district director of employee relations. Purpose of the study was to ascertain how widespread the position is, to examine the nature of the duties being currently performed by directors of employee relations, and to develop a model job…

This paper examines a large number of recent court cases, state commissioner of education decisions, and public employee relations board rulings dealing with the employment and dismissal of school employees in New York. Since the discussion focuses almost entirely on New York cases, it will be of limited value to readers in other states. In his…

This booklet presents a comprehensive summary of all state laws affecting collective bargaining for educational personnel that had been passed as of November 1975. Most of the booklet consists of an extensive chart that summarizes on a state-by-state basis the scope and provisions of all current collective bargaining laws affecting education. This…

This booklet contains six short papers prepared for a symposium on collective negotiation in education. The opening paper presents a national overview of the subject, while the subsequent articles mainly discuss experiences under the Pennsylvania Public Employee Relations Act of 1970, which granted state and local employees full collective…

This publication discusses public school administrators' legal rights to continuing employment, as established by litigation in state and federal courts. Although the number of court cases dealing with school administrators' employment rights has been relatively small, a number of recent cases at both the federal and state levels are examined.…

Necessary required efforts are discussed which effect Special Work Project (SWP) clients through their transition from subsidized to nonsubsidized work. These ranged from personal counseling to day care services, and it was found that supportive services helped reduce barriers to employment. Enrichment funds were allocated for teaching basic…

The study entailed a survey and cost-benefit analysis of existing employer-subsidized day care programs in the United States. It was designed to assess the potential rationale for involvement in employer-subsidized child care from the limited perspective of the employer. The cost of day care appears to be highly sensitive to small changes in…

In analyzing employee militancy expressed through employee unions, the various employee attachments to work were examined. The established attachments were then used as a basis in building a model illustrating the relationship between the individual attachments to work and the collective action of workers in union-management relations. From…

Undertaken to isolate employee characteristics and to determine how they relate to several aspects of employee attitudes toward the corporate newspaper, this study measured the characteristics of employee tenure, job rank, and perceived "self-newspaper" agreement on the manner in which topics were handled within corporate publications. The random…