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Nation, Corporation Or Family? Tribal Casino Employment And The Transformation Of Tribes, Theodor Gordon Jul 2010

Nation, Corporation Or Family? Tribal Casino Employment And The Transformation Of Tribes, Theodor Gordon

Occasional Papers

Since its modest beginnings in the early 1980s, tribal gaming rapidly developed into a $25 billion industry that generates over a quarter million jobs. However, the increasing employment of non-Indians in tribal casinos prompts new cultural and political challenges. This paper analyzes tribal and commercial casino trade publications in order to demonstrate how tribal casino employee relations play a significant role in transforming public policy and perceptions of tribal government in the United States.


Values, Ideologies, And Frames Of Reference In Employment Relations, John W. Budd, Devasheesh P. Bhave Jan 2008

Values, Ideologies, And Frames Of Reference In Employment Relations, John W. Budd, Devasheesh P. Bhave

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

Employment relations—which form most of the 20th century was called industrial relations, and what some now call human resources and industrial relations—is a multidisciplinary field studying all aspects of work and the employment relationship (Ackers and Wilkinson, 2003; Budd, 2004; Kaufm an, 2004). A multidisciplinary approach means that competing values and assumptions underlie the analyses, policies, and practices of employment relations scholars, practitioners, and policymakers. Unfortunately, these underlying beliefs are often implicit rather than explicit, or, with the longstanding focus on how industrial relations processes work, sometimes ignored altogether. But understanding the employment relationship, corporate human resource management practices, labor …


從公有到私有企業 : 中國勞資關係的轉型, Kwok Keung Chow Nov 1997

從公有到私有企業 : 中國勞資關係的轉型, Kwok Keung Chow

Hong Kong Institute of Business Studies Working Paper Series

本文剖析國內官方勞動關係的傳統觀念,好像工人當家、罷工是極左思想等,如何在改革開放下出現本質的變化,相應地令勞動力市場也同時開放,亦令私有企業得以發展,也就令勞動關係出現轉型的現象,並進一步帶動了九十年代的《工會法》、《勞動法》等用作調整新勞動關係的法律相繼出台。為此,本文建議當局須從工會的運作和職能的重新確認上、勞動立法的擴展上、集體協約的建立上,以及勞動爭議的處理手法上等四方面來加以應付。