Communicating Employee Responsibilities and Rights

CHIMEZIE A.B. OSIGWEH, YG., Professor of Management and Director of Personnel and Industrial Relations Research at Norwalk State University, is President of The Council on Employee Responsibilities and Rights in Virginia Beach, Virginia.

• Figures and Tables Preface Part I. Introduction Communication, Responsibilities and Pro-Rights Revolution in the Industrial Workplace by Chimezie A.B. Osigweh, Yg. Defining and Communicating Employee and Employer Rights in an Institutional Context by Patricia H. Werhane Employee Rights from the Government Perspective: An Overview from the Practicing Attorney's Viewpoint by Tommy W. Taylor and Penny J. White Part II. Employee Rights and Responsibilites Communication: Selected Issues and Organizational Delivery Systems Freedom of Speech and Private Sector At-Will Employment: Implications for Society, the Individual, and Management by Wayne Sanders Nonunion Employee Rights to Continued Employment by Darryel Robards Employee Participation in Organizational Decision-Making: Caught in the Squeeze by Jo E. Keller Battle of the Ban and Smoking in the Workplace: A Human Resource Policy Analysis by George Munchus III Communicating Employee Responsibilities and Rights: The Medium and the Message by Marshall Sashkin and William C. Morris The Communication Revolution: Will Cold Plastic Replace Warm Flesh? by Gerald M. Goldhaber and Vincent S. Di Salvo Messages from the Environment: The Influence of Policies and Practices on Employee Responsibility by Joanne M. Ciulla Communicating Employee Rights and Responsibilites: The Influence of Role Modeling by R. Bruce McAfee and Betty R. Ricks Employee Rights: Content, Argumentativeness, Verbal Aggressiveness, and Career Satisfaction by William I. Gorden and Dominic A. Infante Communicating Employee Rights and Responsibilities through Work Rules--Some Preliminary Findings by R. Bruce McAfee and Mark L. Chadwin A Model of Communicating Employee Responsibility Through Labor-Management Participation Teams in an Organization in Financial Difficulty by Dietrich L. Schaupp and Randyl D. Elkin Two Models for Communicating Standards by John Waide Part III. Conclusion An Employee Rights Scale for a Communication Perspective by William I. Gorden and Dominic A. Infante Bibliography Index Contributors