Values underlying personnel/human resource management: Implications of the bishops' economic pastoral letter
✍ Scribed by Daniel J. Koys
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 1988
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 761 KB
- Volume
- 7
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0167-4544
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✦ Synopsis
The economic pastoral letter states that employees have rights to employment, non-discriminatory treatment, adequate wages, health care, old age and disability insurance, healthy working conditions, rest and holidays, reasonable protection from arbitrary dismissal, notice of plant closings, unionization and collective bargaining. In addition, the bishops call for better cooperation between labor and management. This paper discusses how these rights can be protected by good personnel/human resource policies and procedures.
Much of the discussion of the bishops' pastoral letter, Economic Justice for All, 1 has centered on macroeconomic issues (e.g., unemployment, poverty, the world economy). Less noticed is that it also discusses some basic employee rights and better cooperation between labor and management [84,[102][103][286][287][288][289][290][291]. 2 Many of those rights can be protected by organizational human resource policies and procedures currently in use. Organizations, however, vary on their use of these policies and procedures and true labor-management cooperation still eludes many organizations.
Still, management values and concern for employee rights have become important topics in the management literature. The best selling book, In Search of Excellence presents evidence that the managers of some "excellent" firms show a true respect for the individual. Further, members of those organizations view themselves as a corporate family. 3 This paper shows how organizations can apply some