MANAGING HUMAN RESOURCES FOR COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE

Employee-Management Collaboration

3300 words each question. Total 600 words

1. How would you create the organizational conditions needed to make a collaborative approach work to the benefit of management and employees in general (or union employees? What specific steps should be taken by both sides -management and employees (or unions)? 

2. How could you convince more employees in general (or unions) and executives to undertake this approach (e.g. that the longer-term benefits of a participative/cooperative approach will outweigh the short-term costs/uncertainty of a new approach)?