Partnership Highlighted in Harvard Business Review
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This is a crosspost from by John August, Executive Director of the Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions.
The July-August, 2011 issue of the Harvard Business Review is devoted to the study of collaboration, and a lead article in the issue, “Building a Collaborative Enterprise,” by Paul Adler, Charles Heckscher and Laurence Prusak, cites the Kaiser Permanente Labor Management Partnership as an important example of how collaboration works successfully.
Professor Paul Adler, of the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California, is well known to us in the Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions, the Partnership and Kaiser Permanente. He co-authored the definitive book (thus far) on the history of the LMP, Healing Together. More recently, he worked with the Union Coalition to help develop our new learning academy for union leaders.
Business Professors: Employee Free Choice Act Good for the Economy
Two top business experts have taken to the pages of Business Week to make the case for the Employee Free Choice Act.
Paul Adler, a professor at the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California, and Donald Palmer, an associate dean and professor at the University of California-Davis, say corporate hostility to the Employee Free Choice Act and to workers’ freedom to form unions is short-sighted because communities with well-paid workers have economic advantages for business.
Adler and Palmer cite training, job satisfaction and the healthy communities that come from economically secure workers as reasons why businesses benefit when their employees can form unions and bargain.
