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Business School_Response To Request For Syllabi/Information About Pandemic-Related Courses And Activities Email, Tracy B. Bigney, Niclas Erhardt May 2020

Business School_Response To Request For Syllabi/Information About Pandemic-Related Courses And Activities Email, Tracy B. Bigney, Niclas Erhardt

Maine Business School

Email thread of the response from the Maine School Business to the request for syllabi/information about pandemic-related courses and activities from the Provost Office. Content was submitted by Tracy B. Bigney, Cooperating Instructor, University of Maine to Niclas Erhardt, Associate Dean, Maine Business School, University of Maine.


Business School_Pandemic Related Material In Bua 330 Human Resource Management Email, Tracy B. Bigney Apr 2020

Business School_Pandemic Related Material In Bua 330 Human Resource Management Email, Tracy B. Bigney

Maine Business School

Email from Tracy B. Bigney to the University of Maine Provost Office detailing how she had incorporated pandemic-related material into her class BUA 330 Human Resource Management.


Business School_Bua 330 Employment Law Paper, Tracy B. Bigney Apr 2020

Business School_Bua 330 Employment Law Paper, Tracy B. Bigney

Maine Business School

Employment Law Paper for University of Maine Course BUA 330 class on Mandatory Paid Sick Leave, from Tracy B. Bigney, Cooperating Instructor, Maine Business School.


Business School_Bua 330 Hr Role In Pandemic Planning Class Presentation, Tracy B. Bigney Mar 2020

Business School_Bua 330 Hr Role In Pandemic Planning Class Presentation, Tracy B. Bigney

Maine Business School

Class presentation slides for University of Maine Course BUA 330 class on "HR's Role in Pandemic Planning", from Tracy B. Bigney, Cooperating Instructor, Maine Business School.


Voice Without Say: Why Capital-Managed Firms Aren’T (Genuinely) Participatory, Justin Schwartz Aug 2013

Voice Without Say: Why Capital-Managed Firms Aren’T (Genuinely) Participatory, Justin Schwartz

Justin Schwartz

Why are most capitalist enterprises of any size organized as authoritarian bureaucracies rather than incorporating genuine employee participation that would give the workers real authority? Even firms with employee participation programs leave virtually all decision-making power in the hands of management. The standard answer is that hierarchy is more economically efficient than any sort of genuine participation, so that participatory firms would be less productive and lose out to more traditional competitors. This answer is indefensible. After surveying the history, legal status, and varieties of employee participation, I examine and reject as question-begging the argument that the rarity of genuine …