Managing Human Resources, Eight Edition

Labor Relations Strategy

A company’s labor relations strategy is its management’s overall plan for dealing with unions. A company’s labor relations strategy sets a tone that can range from open conflict with the union to labor–management cooperation. The most important choice affecting a company’s labor relations strategy is management’s decision to accept or to avoid unions.38

labor relations strategy

A company’s overall plan for dealing with labor unions.

Union Acceptance Strategy

Under a union acceptance strategy , management chooses to view the union as its employees’ legitimate representative and accepts collective bargaining as an appropriate mechanism for establishing workplace rules. Management tries to obtain the best possible ...