Personnel management and labor relations

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Personnel management and labor relations

• POS 211
• Chapter 11

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Revised class schedule

• Nov 13 and 18 Personnel Management and Labor
  Relations
• Chapter 11
• Nov 20 Case example Strike Trade Union
  Simulation
• Nov 25 Midterm 2 take home exam (no class)
• Nov 27 - Public Financial Management
• Chapter 13
• Dec 2 and 4 Social Equity
• Dec 9 and 11 - Projects and Presentations

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How to study strategic management?

• The Industrial Organizational Approach
• based on economic theory deals with issues like
  competitive rivalry, recourse allocation,
  incentive structure
• assumptions rationality, self discipline
  behavior, profit maximization
• The Sociological Approach
• deals primarily with human interactions
• theory of leaderships
• Role for civil society

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Personnel Management and Labor Relations

• The personnel function
• Recruitment
• Behavioral Anchor
• Numerical rating scale (e.g. 1-5, Tennis player,
  p. 408)
• Performance Appraisal
• Supervisory, self-rating, peer rating, subordinal
  and group rating

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Patronage

• Effective immediately, no decision relating to
  hiring shall be made unless and until such
  decision is reviewed and approved by a department
  or agency head appointed by the President after
  noon on January 20,2001

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Collective Bargaining

• Establishment of organizations for bargaining
• Formulations of demands
• Negotiation of demands
• Administration of the labor agreement

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Collective bargaining cycle

• Organizing
• Representation elections
• Contract negotiation
• (union demands and management demands)
• Contract agreement
• Contract administration

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Why strikes occur?

• no contract, no work
• Union leader complicated situation

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• Case example
• National Union of Teachers (NUT) Strikes
  England and Wales, April 24th, 2008.

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Governmental structure..

• Department of Education and Skills (between 2001
  and 2007)
• June 28, 2007 G. Brown divides the Ministry of
  Education into (1) Ministry for children, schools
  and families, and (2) Ministry for innovation,
  universities and skills,
• Brown "It is of critical importance for young
  people, parents and employers that there should
  be coherence between pre and post-16 learning and
  skills and we look forward to working with the
  government to see how this can be delivered
  within the new structure.

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Teachers Demand

• April 24th 2008 fair pay for teachers
• Video Hundreds of schools in England and Wales
  are affected by the first national NUT strike in
  21 years.
• http//search.bbc.co.uk/cgi-bin/search/results.pl?
  tabavqnutrecipeallscopealledition
• http//edition.cnn.com/video//video/world/2008/04
  /24/blake.uk.school.strike.itn?irefvideosearch
• April 29th 2008 class sizes
• maximum of 20 pupils per teacher in 2020.

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Debate ..

• Strike 2 million children/ high drop-out rate
  (discipline in schools)
• What can be done?
• Government and NUT
• Government refuses to give in.
• What are incentives for the government to give
  in?
• What are incentives for NUT to terminate the
  strike? And what are incentives for other unions
  to join the strike?
• Bargaining power 2 issues
• Education Minister Knights standpoint

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Teachers' Rights, Responsibilities and Legal
LiabilitiesCase example United States

• Teachers in the United States enjoy a number of
  rights pertaining to their employment, including
  recognition of certain freedoms, prohibition
  against certain forms of discrimination, and
  significant protections against dismissal from
  their position. These rights are derived from
  state and federal constitutional provisions,
  state and federal statutes, and state and federal
  regulations.

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Teachers' Rights, Responsibilities and Legal
Liabilities

• Constitutional provisions provide protection to
  teachers at public schools that are generally not
  available to teachers at private schools. Since
  public schools are state entities, constitutional
  restrictions on state action limit some actions
  that public schools may take with respect to
  teachers or other employees.

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Teacher Contracts

• Employment as a Teacher
• Certification
• Obtaining a position
• Probationary contracts
• Interim contracts
• Temporary contracts
• Continuing contract
• Terminating a contract
• Termination or suspension by school boards

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Teaching Duties

• Duties in Classroom Instruction
• Duties as a Staff Member
• Financial Responsibilities
• Hours of Work

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Teacher Liability

• The Criminal Code
• Insurance
• Negligence
• Supervision
• Student Injury or Illness
• Transporting Students
• Child Abuse
• Field Trips

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Assault

• Nonsexual Assault Offences
• Sexual Assaults

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Assessment of Students

• Responsibility for Evaluation
• Teacher
• Principal
• Superintendent
• School board
• Education Minister

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Authority and Role of Administrators

• Hierarchy of a School System
• Superintendent
• Supervisors
• Consultants
• Principal
• Assistant principals
• Other administrative personnel

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Sources

• http//www.enotes.com/everyday-law-encyclopedia/te
  achers-rights
• http//www.teachers.ab.ca/QuickLinks/Publications
  /OtherPublications/TeachersRightsResponsibilit
  iesandLegalLiabilities/