For more than two decades now, the Overland Resource Group team has partnered with many dozens of organizations and their labor groups, facilitating transformational change in complex environments through collaboration.
by Mike Hunter, ORG President, on March 29, 2017
For more than two decades now, the Overland Resource Group team has partnered with many dozens of organizations and their labor groups, facilitating transformational change in complex environments through collaboration.
by Marc Bridgham, on April 13, 2016
AVIODING THE DEATH OF A 1,000 "OOPS"
Two stories out of a thousand…
by Robert Hughes, on March 4, 2016
Recently, I had the pleasure of being a guest lecturer at the New York University Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service for a graduate study course on Labor Management Cooperation. My host was Arthur Matthews, an accomplished mediator, arbitrator and adjunct professor at NYU, Cornell and the Clinton School of Public Service at the University of Arkansas. A colleague of Howard’s, Kathy Drew-King also served as a guest lecturer for the course. Kathy is a Regional Attorney for the NLRB office serving the boroughs of Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island in the City of New York, and Nassau and Suffolk Counties.
by Timothy Kincaid, EdD, on February 11, 2016
At the end of last year, Overland Resource Group announced its annual Best & Worst of Labor Management Relations, highlighting what we felt were 2015’s “best” examples (UAW & Big Three Automakers), “worst” examples (Railway Labor Act), and gave Special Recognition to Salesforce for taking bold action to assure equal compensation for women and men. The 2015 list took a more macro-tack than previous years. We thought it interesting to revisit those named in our 2014 Best & Worst list to see what has changed in just over one year. Here are some highlights:
by Robert Hughes and Nicholas Bizony, on June 4, 2015
This is the sixth installment of a blog series, “Collaboration and Employee Engagement; Ideas Whose Time Has Come, Again.” Earlier, we explored the beginnings of labor-management cooperation in the 1960s, the formation of the National Quality of Work Center (NQWC) that conceptualized collaboration between labor unions and management for shared benefit, and the early experiments that moved cooperation to become the new normal. Here in the last installment, we consider the significant evolution in leadership, management, and organizational thinking since the 60’s, the relevance for employee engagement and Labor management cooperation, and where labor and management cooperation fit in that context.
by Robert Hughes and Nicholas Bizony, on May 27, 2015
Part 5: The current state of employee engagement in America
by Robert Hughes and Nicholas Bizony, on May 20, 2015
This is the fourth installment in a blog series “Collaboration and Employee Engagement; Ideas Whose Time Has Come, Again.” Earlier, we explored the beginnings of labor-management cooperation in the 1960s, the formation of the National Quality of Work Center (NQWC) that conceptualized collaboration between labor unions and management for shared benefit, and experiments that showed benefits of new levels of cooperation. Now, we see experiments becoming the new normal in many organizations.
by Robert Hughes and Nicholas Bizony, on May 13, 2015
Early NQWC experiments succeed in bringing labor and management together at major U.S. employers
by Robert Hughes and Nicholas Bizony, on May 8, 2015
A Structure for Working Together – The National Quality of Work Center is Conceived
by Robert Hughes and Nicholas Bizony, on May 7, 2015
This is the first installment of a six-part blog series from Overland Resource Group, exploring the past, the current state, and the future of union-management collaboration and employee engagement.
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