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.
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.
Marc Bridgham, on April 13, 2016
AVIODING THE DEATH OF A 1,000 "OOPS"
Two stories out of a thousand…
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.
Melissa Holobach, on October 21, 2015
It is not the “first mistake” that creates problems, and even hazards. It’s all the other mistakes that can follow. Allow me to explain.
Robert Hughes, on October 2, 2015
As the Volkswagen emissions story continues to unfold, the scale of the damages and the scope of who stands to suffer and how continues to expand.
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.
Robert Hughes and Nicholas Bizony, on May 27, 2015
Part 5: The current state of employee engagement in America
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.
Robert Hughes and Nicholas Bizony, on May 13, 2015
Early NQWC experiments succeed in bringing labor and management together at major U.S. employers
Marc Bridgham, on December 19, 2014
Of all the management rights, budgetary responsibility is perhaps the one most tightly held. At the same time, some of the loudest laments we hear from management leaders are that employees do not understand the business, or the budgetary realities and financial constraints under which they must operate. Therein lies the root of a vicious cycle: in the spirit of protecting a coveted management right, leaders may inadvertently perpetuate an informational vacuum, which gets filled with misinformation, rumor and hearsay.
