Improved metrics for workplace dispute resolution procedures: Efficiency, equity, and voice

Industrial Relations

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 460-479

  Budd, John W ^a   Colvin, Alexander J S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISPUTE RESOLUTION; LABOR RELATIONS; TRADE UNION; WORKPLACE;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 44349172392     PISSN: 00198676     EISSN: 1468232X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-232X.2008.00529.x     Document Type: Article

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