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Hi Colleagues
New to the conference this year are Plenary Sessions tied to the Conference theme "Capitalism in Question". Each division has 90 minutes allotted during the scholarly program for a Plenary Session which can take the form of a debate, a special speaker, or other innovative form. We invite you to the inaugural Plenary Session the Conflict Management Division which will host a debate:
Is Organizational Justice the New Industrial Relations? A debate on Individual vs Collective Underpinnings of Justice
Scheduled on Monday, August 12, 2013 from 11:30am-1:00pm at WDW Dolphin Resort in Salon 3
Presenters: Stephen Gilliland Raymond L. Hogler
Associate Dean, Executive Education Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Labor Law, 2007
Executive Director, Center for Leadership Ethics University of Tuscia (Viberbo, Italy)
Department Head and Arnold Lesk Chair in Leadership Acting Chair, Department of Management
Department of Management and Organizations Colorado State University
University of Arizona, Eller College of Management
This debate will tie the conference theme "Capitalism in Question" to the implementation of justice processes in firms. People like John D. Rockefeller Jr. – who has been called one of the founders of Industrial Relations – created systems of representation and grievance handling that allowed workers to act together. It was not a union relation, but it foreshadowed the advent of widespread collective bargaining in the workplace. For about three decades from 1950 on, union relations served to establish good wages, secure jobs, and cooperative relations with employers. As this began to break down in the 1980s, unions went into a severe decline and traditional bargaining gave way to individual employment relationships. New intellectual disciplines took over the study of work and workers, primarily economics and psychology. The focus was on quantitative methodology and individual behaviors. The question for this debate is whether the old system still has any useful lessons for understanding employment relations, or whether the new mode of analyzing justice and voice in the workplace is adequate, or even superior.
People like Rockefeller (and many, many other employers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries) tried to implement justice processes in their firms aiming to cover all dimensions of workplace behavior from an employer/worker standpoint, and we will examine their ideas against contemporary views of justice and voice in the workplace.
The debate will include time for questions and interaction with the audience so we would love it if you would attend and be thinking about questions you might ask at the Plenary Session. I've asked both of our debate panelists for some preliminary points for discussion and it looks like we will have a good set of arguments for this lively session. Please consider attending our Plenary Session.
Take care and see you in Orlando!
Thank you
Michael Gross
2013 Scholarly Program Chair
Conflict Management Division
Michael A. Gross, Ph.D.
2013 Program Chair, Conflict Management Division, Academy of Management
Associate Professor of Management
College of Business
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Colorado State University
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E-mail: Michael.Gross@business.colostate.edu