Blog Entries (by date, title only)

Organizational Governance and Trade-Offs Between Pay and Subjective Employee Well-Being - 19 Jan 2025
Homo Economicus Sings the Blues, And We All Suffer For It - 14 Jul 2022
The Divergence Between Work Songs and High-Road HR Strategies - 27 Jun 2022
Using Political Party Manifestos to Investigate the Relative Importance of Industrial Relations Ideas in Politics - 21 Jan 2022
A Diagnostic Tool for Managing Conflict at its Sources - 27 Oct 2021
The Importance of Political Systems for Trade Union Membership, Coverage, and Influence - 20 Sep 2021
Worker Voice and Political Participation in Civil Society: Lousy Work Is Bad for Democracy - 08 Jul 2021
Will Work Really Change That Much? - 09 Jun 2021
The Importance of Cognitive Frames for Understanding HR Practices, Part 2 (Adding Workers In) - 05 May 2021
The Importance of Cognitive Frames for Understanding HR Practices, Part 1 (Organizational Leaders) - 15 Apr 2021
Can a Resurgence in Labor Unions Help Working Women, With or Without the PRO Act? - 08 Mar 2021
Does 5 to 9 solve 9 to 5? - 08 Feb 2021
Union-buster Steve visits Superstore, But Maybe Not After the PRO Act - 29 Jan 2021
How the U.S. Political System Might be Bad for Labor Unions Regardless of Who is in Power - 05 Nov 2020
Workplace Cooperation: Important, But Difficult - 07 Oct 2020
Is the NLRA Racist? - 31 Aug 2020
The Arbitration of Police Officer Discipline - 27 Jul 2020
Police Unions, Contracts, and Misconduct - 27 Jul 2020
Using Employment Relations Frames of Reference to Think about Discrimination and (Institutional) Racism - 29 Jun 2020
Data (Analytics) on COVID-19: Lessons for People Analytics - 24 Apr 2020
Managing Conflict at its Sources - 15 Feb 2020
A New Culprit in the Decline of American Labor? Robert F. Kennedy and the Long Cast of Hoffa's Shadow - 06 Jan 2020
Legislative Election Rules and Industrial Relations—Representativeness is Good - 18 Dec 2019
And Now for the Biden Labor Plan...Laudable But Still a Narrow View of High-Stakes, Worker Voice - 10 Nov 2019
(Incomplete) Reflections on the Sanders and Warren Labor Plans - 04 Oct 2019
The Fragility of Genuine Workplace Cooperation...Or, Avoid Sliding Down the Cooperation Curve - 23 Sep 2019
Cooperation—What Does it Really Mean? - 06 Aug 2019
Why I Just Can’t Tell You What Works - 24 Jul 2019
What Do Industrial Relations Scholars Research? From the Traditional to the Emergent (and a Hidden Message) - 13 Jun 2019
The Evolution of NAFTA and Labor Rights - 22 May 2019
Labor + Community + Environment = Australia’s Green Bans - 14 Apr 2019
The Great Uprising of 1877, The Great Divides of 2019 - 21 Mar 2019
What Causes Conflict? A New Three-Dimensional Framework - 02 Feb 2019
The State of Organized Labor in the U.S.: An Abbreviated FAQ - 12 Jan 2019
Unsolicited Advice for Amazon: Keep Talking with Your Workers - 01 Dec 2018
Should Work Be More Like BDSM Role-Play? - 05 Nov 2018
Finding the Meaning in Bullshit Jobs - 06 Oct 2018
After Epic Systems, It’s Striking What’s Left for Workers…Literally! - 03 Sep 2018
Paid Family Leave: The Lack of a National Policy Isn’t the Only Barrier - 21 Aug 2018
What Happens in the Aftermath of the Janus Ruling? - 02 Jul 2018
Undoing Work, or Doing it up? How Central Should Work Be to Society? - 13 Jun 2018
The IR Curmudgeon's View on Identity in Employment Relations - 15 May 2018
Confronting the Myth that Workers Know What They are Signing Up For - 06 Apr 2018
How Many Things are Inevitable if Workers Unionize? Just One. - 21 Mar 2018
Business Is Not a War, a Jungle, a Machine, or a Game: Rejecting Narratives that are Unhealthy for Work and Workers - 26 Feb 2018
Uncovering the Financialization Roots of Contingent Work - 05 Jan 2018
Employment with a Human Face: Delivered on Christmas, Enduring as a Teenager - 16 Dec 2017
Lessons for Resolving Conflict from the NFL Players Anthem Dispute and Papal Conclaves - 22 Nov 2017
Does Labor Law Protect Protesting NFL Players? It's Probably a Hail Mary - 15 Oct 2017
Minnesota Legislature: Respect U of M Contingent Faculty By Letting Them Decide Whether or Not to Unionize - 16 Sep 2017
From Google to Top Dog hot dogs via Charlottesville: What About Employee Free Speech? - 14 Aug 2017
What Happens at Work Doesn’t Stay There: (Poor) Workplace Democracy Promotes (Poor) Political Democracy - 19 Jul 2017
Employment Relations in a Post-Industrial Post-Democracy Era? - 22 Jun 2017
Are More Stock Options the Answer for Target's Woes? - 02 May 2017
Thoughts on Uber and Its Psychological "Tricks" - 17 Apr 2017
Why Study Labor Relations? - 16 Mar 2017
Fawning for Favors: Tipping, Harassment, and the Need for One Minimum Wage - 26 Feb 2017
Labor Unions Have More Younger Members Than They Think, And Why This is Important - 15 Jan 2017
Financialization, Not Globalization, Driving Carrier's Movement of Jobs - 19 Dec 2016
Industrial Relations Sadly Chuckles on the Eve of the Election - 07 Nov 2016
Thank You Wells Fargo...For Reminding Us of the Nature of the Employment Relationship - 01 Oct 2016
And the University of Minnesota faculty organizing drive drags on, or, bananas aren’t apples, but they are more like apples than like airplanes - 23 Sep 2016
Homogenization: Good for Milk, Bad for Managing Workers - 28 Aug 2016
The Unique CTUL-Target Partnership: Filling a Vacuum - 31 Jul 2016
The Soul and Scope of Labor Union Strategies - 27 Jun 2016
Working with Purpose…Not Just for the Productive - 01 May 2016
Everything you need to know about the employment relationship in one tweet - 22 Apr 2016
Questioning the Conventional Wisdom: Do Consensual Dispute Resolution Methods Produce Better Relationships? - 20 Mar 2016
Labor Relations 101 as Told Through the Musical Newsies - 14 Feb 2016
Don't quit, strike - 30 Jan 2016
Video Blog on Worker Incentives - 23 Dec 2015
And the MOOC Adventure Begins - 28 Nov 2015
To Tip or Not to Tip, That is the (HR Policy) Question - 27 Oct 2015
Brief Reflections on Work in Cape Town, South Africa - 17 Sep 2015
Book Review: The Development of Human Resource Management Across Nations - 13 Aug 2015
Reflections On My Own Work Experiences - 31 Jul 2015
Thoughts on an Earlier Book, Just Work - 15 Jun 2015
Thoughts on a New Book, Just Work - 31 May 2015
‘We’re All in This Together’: The Multi-Stakeholder Imperative for Healthy, Balanced Employment Relationships - 12 Apr 2015
Walton & McKersie Help an Economist Mature into an Industrial Relations Scholar - 05 Mar 2015
Say What? Employee Empowerment Zones? - 08 Feb 2015
What Theory Can and Cannot Do in (HR) Practice - 14 Jan 2015
Will the Real HRM Please Stand Up, or the Problem with Hard Unitarism - 02 Dec 2014
Deeper Lessons from Recent Employee Wellness Program Controversies - 05 Nov 2014
Another Empowering Story from the UK Miners Strike on its 30th Anniversary - 13 Oct 2014
Regulating Work: The Importance of the Geography of the Value Chain - 22 Sep 2014
Real Leaders Shouldn't Need $63 Million in Tax Help From Their Company - 30 Aug 2014
The Goals of Conflict Management: Have We Lost the Forest for the Trees? - 15 Jul 2014
What Do Unions in China Do? - 19 Jun 2014
Contested Ideas About Work: The Crowding Out of the Occupational Citizenship Conceptualization of Work - 23 May 2014
Moving Past the "Gut Feeling" Rhetoric in HR Analytics - 14 Apr 2014
A St. Patrick's Day Reflection--Heritage and Work - 17 Mar 2014
Is Making Work More Visible Always Better? - 23 Feb 2014
Why HR-OB Still Needs IR - 15 Jan 2014
HR Pros Ignore Economics at Their Own Peril - 12 Dec 2013
Conceptualizing Work: A History of Powerful Ideas - 03 Nov 2013
The Perniciously Simultaneous Erosion of Work and Family Stability - 11 Sep 2013
Update: Creating Publicly Valuable Outcomes in the Work Sphere - 01 Aug 2013
The (Potential) Benefits of Employee Voice - 24 Jul 2013
Right-to-Request--Let's Give Dialogue a Try - 12 Jun 2013
Minnesota's Child Care Unionization Law: Evolutionary, not Revolutionary - 24 May 2013
Say What? Work-Force Science a New Field...Not! And Data Aren't the Problem - 30 Apr 2013
Disposing of Workers, Flexible Work Practices, or Outdated Views on Work? - 05 Mar 2013
Invisible Labor: The Eye Does Not See What the Mind Does Not Know - 17 Feb 2013
The Roots of Words for Work - 15 Jan 2013
Why So Many Lockouts? Means, Motive, and Opportunity - 11 Dec 2012
Dilbert Completes an Employee Survey - 08 Nov 2012
It's a Shame that We Allow Wall St. Analysts to Dictate Employment and Work - 27 Oct 2012
Interview on Employee Voice - 09 Oct 2012
Implicit Public Values and the Creation of Public Value: The Importance of Work and the Contested Role of Labor Unions - 20 Sep 2012
Celebrating Work...By Not Working? - 03 Sep 2012
Job Quality: An Industrial Relations Perspective - 15 Aug 2012
Tweets from ILERA - 06 Jul 2012
How an Economics Thought of Work Influences Research and Practice - 25 May 2012
Employee Free Speech: Protections Needed in the Social Networking World, and in the Real World - 17 May 2012
Labor Relations Advice: The Importance of Being Level-Headed and Respectful - 27 Apr 2012
Frances Perkins: Mother of the New Deal - 10 Apr 2012
The Power of Work's Connections in Billy Elliot - 27 Mar 2012
The Value of Employee Voice - 19 Mar 2012
Say What? "There's nothing we can do that is more beneficial for people's freedom and liberty" than a right-to-work law? - 26 Feb 2012
Ron McCallum and the Importance of Labor Law - 16 Feb 2012
Eureka! The Labor History Symbolism of Melbourne's Tallest Building - 11 Feb 2012
Say What? A Right-to-Work? - 04 Feb 2012
Unlocking iPhone Work - 25 Jan 2012
Say What? Fighting the Jobs Crisis as We Would a War? - 15 Jan 2012
Making Work Meaningful...By Listening to Me?? - 10 Jan 2012
A New Year's Wish List for Work - 01 Jan 2012
Working Like A Dog? - 28 Dec 2011
Laughing about Work: Dilbert Meets a Self-Disciplining Worker - 19 Dec 2011
What is Worker Well-Being? - 12 Dec 2011
The Metaphor of the Octopus Worker - 05 Dec 2011
Say What? "Don't use words that invoke images of actual work" - 30 Nov 2011
What is Work, and Why Does it Matter? - 28 Nov 2011
Welcome - 28 Nov 2011
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