HBR blog network, March 16, 2012
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Business schools have a special opportunity and responsibility to lead and facilitate the dialogues needed to achieve a Jobs Compact. Let's put to work what we teach MBAs about how to frame, facilitate, and "get to yes" in complex, multi-party negotiations by helping national and regional business, labor, and education leaders translate these options into actions that create good jobs and competitive enterprises. And let's put our advice to work by teaching all our MBAs and executives how to build sustainable organizations that work for investors, employees, and the economy. (To see what we're doing at the MIT Sloan School, follow this link.)
No individual firm can do this acting alone — power comes through strong industry and regional networks. Business leaders need to work together and with other industry and regional stakeholders to share knowledge, mobilize the resources and build the ecosystems they need to compete on the basis of innovation, high productivity, and good wages...
This post is part of the HBR Insight Center on American Competitiveness.
(Link above refers to this among others)
Toward a New Grand Bargain:
Collaborative Approaches to Labor-Management Reform in Massachusetts
Barry Bluestone, Thomas A. Kochan
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In the face of continuing fiscal crisis, the governors of some states including Wisconsin, Ohio, and New Jersey have taken to attacking public sector unions using new legislation to undermine the collective bargaining rights of state and municipal employees. The reaction has been widespread protest and a growing rift between political leaders and civil servants. We believe this painful struggle can not only be avoided in Massachusetts, but that the continuing fiscal crisis facing the Commonwealth and its municipalities can provide the motivation for forging a fundamental change in public sector labor relations that not only could lead to more efficient and effective government service, but in the case our teachers’ unions, could play a critical role in improving public education and closing the achievement gap.




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