Communicating Employee Responsibilities and Rights: A Modern Management Mandate

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Understanding the array of occupational rights that give meaning to the emerging demands, expectations, and role responsibilities in the modern workplace is of critical importance. Equally important is achieving an understanding of the evolving workplace practices these rights mandate. Employer and employee understanding of these considerations offers enormous potential for avoiding situations that provoke and escalate conflicts in the contemporary workplace. At the heart of all of this is the need for clear, consistent, and effective communication in the modern organization. This book, containing contributions by outstanding scholars and practitioners in the fields of communication, organizational psychology and management, law, personnel, and industrial and labor relations, addresses the issues involved in communicating employee responsiblities and rights.

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. . . the appearance of this book is timely and helpful to a wide variety of scholars. Osigweh claims that the next conflict on the horizon is the 'pro-rights revolution' by employees who feel that their rights in the workplace have been abused. . . A few of the chapters are empirical, some provide documented information that practitioners or academicians would find useful. . . one of the must interesting chapters is the second, which focuses on the moral justification for the recognition and communication of employee rights. . . the authors present data for their assertions. . . probably most useful to organization scholars are the pieces on the legal and moral contexts of the topic, since they present the most unique and original information in the volume.-Admin. Science Quarterly, Cornell
." . . the appearance of this book is timely and helpful to a wide variety of scholars. Osigweh claims that the next conflict on the horizon is the 'pro-rights revolution' by employees who feel that their rights in the workplace have been abused. . . A few of the chapters are empirical, some provide documented information that practitioners or academicians would find useful. . . one of the must interesting chapters is the second, which focuses on the moral justification for the recognition and communication of employee rights. . . the authors present data for their assertions. . . probably most useful to organization scholars are the pieces on the legal and moral contexts of the topic, since they present the most unique and original information in the volume."-Admin. Science Quarterly, Cornell

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CHIMEZIE A.B. OSIGWEH, YG., Professor of Management and Director of Personnel and Industrial Relations Research at Norwalk State University, is President of The Council on Employee Responsibilities and Rights in Virginia Beach, Virginia.