Kenneth O Alexander
Biographic Data
| ID | 698076 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kenneth O Alexander |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kenneth |
| FAMILY NAME | O Alexander |
| SIGNATURE | ALEXANDER K O |
| AFFILIATIONS | Michigan Technological University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1962 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Worker, the Union and the Democratic Workplace
Much attention has been devoted to the potential gains in work satisfaction and productivity that can result from more democratic work organization. In the U.S. the willingness of management to share power is a key factor in the transfer from authoritarianism, as is widely recognized. Less widely recognized are the worker and the union as impediments to change. Various characteristics and interests of both, many related to the long history of the…
Worker Ownership and Participation in the Context of Social Change
A massive volume of literature has been generated over recent years concerning the nature of work organizations and resultant effects upon worker satisfaction and enterprise efficiency. Between extreme radical and conservative views, a good deal of attention has focused on worker ownership and the locus of power in the organization. Worker ownership can lead to beneficial results, but only if carefully structured. Worker participation in decision…
The Promise and Perils of Worker Participation in Management
Movement from authoritarian to participatory work organization promises gains in both worker satisfaction and productivity. In spite of the potential gain in social welfare, change in the United States has been relatively slow. Part of the explanation lies in problems of implementation, in the practical problems of transition Part also lies in management fears concerning the ability to circumscribe the scope of worker participation in order to pr…
Work and Welfare in Economics
Today's conventional economics typically ignores the impact of alternative forms of work organization upon the welfare of the worker. In effect, its methodology is concerned with the welfare of the individual as a consumer, but not with the welfare of the individual as a worker. Hence, welfare conclusions of economics are subject to challenge on grounds of being incomplete. Whether the worker is alienated or achieves self-fulfillment, etc., stand…
Power and productivity
Scientists, Engineers and the Organization of Work
Scientists and engineers experience job dissatisfaction and perform below potential productivity, largely because of conflict between professionalism and work bureaucracies. Research has documented potential gain on both counts through reduced hierarchical power of management and movement toward greater participation in shared decision-making. But relative reduction in managerial power is not likely; neither is the spread of unionism for scientis…
The Worker and the Job
On Work and Authority
Continued debate over the nature of work is adding to an existing vast literature in labor economics, business and personnel administration, industrial sociology and social psychology. Both theory and experience indicate that the authoritarian workplace results in social costs through reduced labor productivity and increased worker dissatisfaction. But progress toward shared authority and worker participation in the administration of the producti…
The Economic Benefits and Costs of Retraining
Conglomerate Mergers and Collective Bargaining
Focuses on company mergers and their impact on collective bargaining. Discussion of the changes in Section 7 of the Clayton Act that were caused by the Celler-Kefauver amendment; Undesirable aspects of a merger; Description of the changing modes of collective bargaining. (Abstract copyright EBSCO.)
Automation and Industrial Labor
Permanent Poverty
Employment Shifts in Areas of Persistent Unemployment
Presents an analysis of total, regional, and industrial employment shifts in local labor markets in Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin during the period 1950-1960. Implications for federal policy; Concepts of employment change for persistent unemployment counties and for remaining counties in the states; Effect of the regional share factor by industry. (Abstract copyright EBSCO.)
Economic Change and Federal Policy
Unionism, Wages, and Cost-Push
The Wage Pattern in the United States, 1946–1957
Worker Ownership and Participation in the Context of Social Change
A massive volume of literature has been generated over recent years concerning the nature of work organizations and resultant effects upon worker satisfaction and enterprise efficiency. Between extreme radical and conservative views, a good deal of attention has focused on worker ownership and the locus of power in the organization. Worker ownership can lead to beneficial results, but only if carefully structured. Worker participation in decision…
Scientists, Engineers and the Organization of Work
Scientists and engineers experience job dissatisfaction and perform below potential productivity, largely because of conflict between professionalism and work bureaucracies. Research has documented potential gain on both counts through reduced hierarchical power of management and movement toward greater participation in shared decision-making. But relative reduction in managerial power is not likely; neither is the spread of unionism for scientis…
On Work and Authority
Continued debate over the nature of work is adding to an existing vast literature in labor economics, business and personnel administration, industrial sociology and social psychology. Both theory and experience indicate that the authoritarian workplace results in social costs through reduced labor productivity and increased worker dissatisfaction. But progress toward shared authority and worker participation in the administration of the producti…
Conglomerate Mergers and Collective Bargaining
Focuses on company mergers and their impact on collective bargaining. Discussion of the changes in Section 7 of the Clayton Act that were caused by the Celler-Kefauver amendment; Undesirable aspects of a merger; Description of the changing modes of collective bargaining. (Abstract copyright EBSCO.)
The Wage Pattern in the United States, 1946–1957
Unionism, Wages, and Cost-Push
Economic Change and Federal Policy
Employment Shifts in Areas of Persistent Unemployment
Presents an analysis of total, regional, and industrial employment shifts in local labor markets in Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin during the period 1950-1960. Implications for federal policy; Concepts of employment change for persistent unemployment counties and for remaining counties in the states; Effect of the regional share factor by industry. (Abstract copyright EBSCO.)
Permanent Poverty
Automation and Industrial Labor
Conglomerate Mergers and Collective Bargaining
Focuses on company mergers and their impact on collective bargaining. Discussion of the changes in Section 7 of the Clayton Act that were caused by the Celler-Kefauver amendment; Undesirable aspects of a merger; Description of the changing modes of collective bargaining. (Abstract copyright EBSCO.)
The Economic Benefits and Costs of Retraining
The Worker and the Job
On Work and Authority
Continued debate over the nature of work is adding to an existing vast literature in labor economics, business and personnel administration, industrial sociology and social psychology. Both theory and experience indicate that the authoritarian workplace results in social costs through reduced labor productivity and increased worker dissatisfaction. But progress toward shared authority and worker participation in the administration of the producti…
Power and productivity
Scientists, Engineers and the Organization of Work
Scientists and engineers experience job dissatisfaction and perform below potential productivity, largely because of conflict between professionalism and work bureaucracies. Research has documented potential gain on both counts through reduced hierarchical power of management and movement toward greater participation in shared decision-making. But relative reduction in managerial power is not likely; neither is the spread of unionism for scientis…
Work and Welfare in Economics
Today's conventional economics typically ignores the impact of alternative forms of work organization upon the welfare of the worker. In effect, its methodology is concerned with the welfare of the individual as a consumer, but not with the welfare of the individual as a worker. Hence, welfare conclusions of economics are subject to challenge on grounds of being incomplete. Whether the worker is alienated or achieves self-fulfillment, etc., stand…
The Promise and Perils of Worker Participation in Management
Movement from authoritarian to participatory work organization promises gains in both worker satisfaction and productivity. In spite of the potential gain in social welfare, change in the United States has been relatively slow. Part of the explanation lies in problems of implementation, in the practical problems of transition Part also lies in management fears concerning the ability to circumscribe the scope of worker participation in order to pr…
Worker Ownership and Participation in the Context of Social Change
A massive volume of literature has been generated over recent years concerning the nature of work organizations and resultant effects upon worker satisfaction and enterprise efficiency. Between extreme radical and conservative views, a good deal of attention has focused on worker ownership and the locus of power in the organization. Worker ownership can lead to beneficial results, but only if carefully structured. Worker participation in decision…
The Worker, the Union and the Democratic Workplace
Much attention has been devoted to the potential gains in work satisfaction and productivity that can result from more democratic work organization. In the U.S. the willingness of management to share power is a key factor in the transfer from authoritarianism, as is widely recognized. Less widely recognized are the worker and the union as impediments to change. Various characteristics and interests of both, many related to the long history of the…
Economics (12 works) · Political science (9 works) · Economic growth (7 works) · Labor Movements and Unions (6 works) · Labour economics (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Productivity (5 works) · Work (physics) (5 works) · Authoritarianism (4 works) · Business (4 works)