Surveys various reactions of faculties and administrators to the collective bargaining experience of the State University of New York during the first year of a negotiated agreement between the State of New York and the Senate Professional Association, and examines attitude changes over the one-year period. (Editor/PG)

Suggestions are offered on how to improve employees' attendance records. (Author)

Presented before the Section on Administration, American College Health Association, Forty-sixth Annual Meeting, May 2, 1968.

This study compares the manner in which employment relations problems are resolved at institutions with collective bargaining contracts and those without such contracts. It also describes how collectively bargained agreements in general have resulted in the development of more formal conflict-resolution mechanisms in all sectors of higher…

Contained in this special report is a list of the 243 institutions that have collective bargaining agents. The citations are divided by the bargaining agent, and then listed by 4-year or 2-year institutions. The bargaining agents listed are: American Association of University Professors; National Education Association; American Federation of…

This article discusses the long-term growth of employee-benefit plans (which have grown tremendously since 1950) and assesses this trend in terms of real gains. The article states that contributions, by 1970, were nine times greater and benefit outlays 14 times greater than in 1950, and the number of persons covered by most types of benefits grew…

The issues of collective bargaining as they are being discussed and debated at the University of California-Berkeley are presented. The paper is divided into 5 sections, the first being a discussion of the legal framework within which the debate is presently being conducted. This section also includes a detailed discussion of proposed changes in…

This document contains a packet of materials on collective bargaining in higher education. It is designed to provide laymen with general information on the subject. In addition, it gives references for further study. The packet includes the following materials: (1) Academic Collective Bargaining: History and Present Status; (2) Legal Principles of…

Hypotheses generated from organization theory stated that if the primary responsibilities in decision making shifted in either direction between faculty and administrators, there would be a resultant change in their organizational environment. In this paper six community colleges were analyzed for change in organizational structure after the…

Concern over the problems of labor-management relations in the public sector has generated considerable interest and concern in recent years among faculty and students as well as government employers and employees throughout the nation. Thus the Manpower and Industrial Relations Institute of the University of Alabama decided to issue a series of…

This study of workers' satisfaction with their supervisors found, contrary to popular belief, that female supervisors received significantly higher scores on most of the variables considered. The article explores a number of myths about females as supervisors that are contradicted by the findings. (Author)

Because of the contention caused by the entire process of negotiations, animosity exists between teachers and the administration. A list of unintended consequences is discussed. (Author/MLF)

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Examines several management theories dealing with subordinate-supraordinate relationships and concludes that the most favorable relationship occurs in the institution when the transactional decision-making method is used. (Author/IRT)