SOC227H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Rand Formula, Social Conflict, Collective Agreement
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The benefits and costs to employees of a union. Union: response to employer/management conflict and imbalance of power. Two dimensions: interests: what each wants, ususally opposed (somebody"s gain is another persons loss); occasionaly there are win-win solution, action: choice of how to act to get their interests. Management wants productivity, performance, efficiency (more output at less. Workers want benefits for doing their work (economic, social and psychological: social power. The capacity to get another party to alter its behavior in a way that benefits you . Note: social power is relational; specific to the relationship between the two parties; How much one party depends on the other for something. Importance of the issue: sometimes it"s very important (ex. Power of an ee = er"s dependence on ee. Bargaining power: above formula captures what your bargaining power is going to be. Employees don"t have as much bargaining power as employers. Shortage: when there"s a shortage of a certain kind of work.
