Labor Relations and Human Resource Management in the Airline Industry

The Global Airline Industry

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 275-311

  Gittell, Jody Hoffer ^a   von Nordenflycht, Andrew ^b   Kochan, Thomas A ^c   Mckersie, Robert ^c   Bamber, Greg J ^d  

^a BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Airline labor relations strategies and what works; Alternative strategies for employment relationship; Employee stock ownership plans; Human resource management at airlines; International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO); Labor relations (LR) and human resource (HR) management employment relationship aspects; Labor relations in US airline industry; LR and HR management in airline industry

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860192763     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470744734.ch10     Document Type: Chapter

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