Colloquium

 

Thursday, January 15, 2009
2:00 pm
UCLA Faculty Center, Hacienda Room

 

Worker Voice and US Exceptionalism: Lessons from Other English-Speaking Countries

Presented by Peter Haynes, University of Auckland

Peter Haynes has lectured at the University of Auckland and is about to take a role as Senior Lecturer at the Waikato Management School, University of Waikato. He is a former trade union official and public policy analyst. He co-edited with Richard Freeman and Peter Boxall a comparative study of worker participation, What Workers Say: Employee Voice in the Anglo-American Workplace  (Cornell University Press, 2007). He has published on worker representation and participation in New Zealand and Australia in the British Journal of Industrial Industrial Relations, Economic & Industrial Democracy and Journal of Industrial Relations. His research also spans studies of union strategy, service sector employment relations and high-performance work systems.

 

Co-sponsored with the Anderson School of Human Resources and Organizational Behavior Area