| Healing Together Contributor(s): Kochan, Thomas A. (Author), Eaton, Adrienne E. (Author), McKersie, Robert B. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0801447984 ISBN-13: 9780801447983 Publisher: ILR Press OUR PRICE: $128.70 Product Type: Hardcover Published: April 2009 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Medical | Health Policy - Medical | Hospital Administration & Care |
| Dewey: 362.110 |
| LCCN: 2008048071 |
| Series: Culture and Politics of Health Care Work |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.2" W x 9" (1.10 lbs) 272 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Kaiser Permanente is the largest managed care organization in the country. It also happens to have the largest and most complex labor-management partnership ever created in the United States. This book tells the story of that partnership-how it started, how it grew, who made it happen, and the lessons to be learned from its successes and complications. With twenty-seven unions and an organization as complex as 8.6-million-member Kaiser Permanente, establishing the partnership was not a simple task and maintaining it has proven to be extraordinarily challenging.Thomas A. Kochan, Adrienne E. Eaton, Robert B. McKersie, and Paul S. Adler are among a team of researchers who have been tracking the evolution of the partnership between Kaiser Permanente and the Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions ever since 2001. They review the history of health care labor relations and present a profile of Kaiser Permanente as it has developed over the years. They then delve into the partnership, discussing its achievements and struggles, including the negotiation of the most innovative collective bargaining agreements in the history of American labor relations. Healing Together concludes with an assessment of the Kaiser partnership's effect on the larger health care system and its implications for labor-management relations in other industries. |
Contributor Bio(s): Kochan, Thomas A.: - Thomas A. Kochan is the George M. Bunker Professor of Management at MIT's Sloan School of Management. He is coeditor of Negotiations and Change and After Lean Production and coauthor with Saul A. Rubinstein of Learning from Saturn, all from Cornell.Eaton, Adrienne E.: - Adrienne E. Eaton is Associate Dean of the School of Management and Labor Relations and Associate Professor of Labor Studies and Employment Relations at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. She is the coauthor of Healing Together: The Labor-Management Partnership at Kaiser Permanente and coeditor of Employment Dispute Resolution and Worker Rights in the Changing Workplace, both from Cornell.McKersie, Robert B.: - Robert McKersie is Sloan Fellows Professor of Management Emeritus at the Sloan School. He is coauthor of The Transformation of American Industrial Relations, from Cornell. |