Analyzing Union's Role in Economic Performance and HRM Practices

This essay examines the intricate relationship between labor unions and economic performance, emphasizing the significance of understanding union membership trends, workplace roles, and public policy implications. It evaluates the impact of unionization on organizational productivity and profitability, considering the balance between union compensation premiums and efficiency gains compared to non-union settings. The analysis extends to the influence of collective bargaining on wages and the role of unions in promoting flexible work schedules and improved organizational standards. The essay concludes by advocating for effective HRM approaches that facilitate work-life flexibility through contract negotiations and problem-solving associations, providing a comprehensive overview of unions' multifaceted role in shaping economic and workplace dynamics. Desklib provides access to similar essays and study resources for students.

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The association of union and economic performance is necessarily essential to
comprehend the transitions in union membership, the role and responsibilities in the workplace
as well as public policy. It is important to note that the decisiveness of unionization on level of
productivity and profitability on organizations enter into the policy calculus of revenues and
benefits related to policies that tend to improve or further constrain union organizing as well as
the shared bargaining coverage (Chun et al., 2015). It has been noted that well-established union
workforce necessitates strong unionized employers whereby the rate of competitive pressure
constraints the size of the union sector if the rate of union compensation premiums are not being
completely compensated or equalize by increased rate of efficiency and productivity in
comparison to the non-union workplace governance, whereby there is a substantial managerial
diplomacy further being regulated by market forces and laws, union governance is official and
deliberate. However the success and accomplishment of public centric to private sector unionism
facilitates to the thesis that degree of vitality or dynamism as well as competitive pressures aid as
the fundamental aspect of constraining force on the factors related to collective bargaining
(Hirsch, 2017). For instance it can be stated that the US union pay has been regulated by a shared
bargaining process further altered by the preferences and inclination of union members along
with the bargaining ability which has further been inclined by product as well as labor market
situational context (Chun et al., 2015).
Labor unions can pose immense influence in the organization in order to support the
employees to attain accessibility to flexible schedules. However, previous researches have
revealed that unions have been considered as a driving force in order to raise wages,
remuneration and further benefit organizational standards (Berg et al., 2014) . Unions can further
involve flexible scheduling in areas of contract negotiations and must further initiate an effective

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approach in facilitating work-life flexibility acts and practices (Myant, 2013). This can further
entail union officials functioning as experts and consultants in order to assist employees to
negotiate flexibility with their leaders and create problem-solving associations in order to find
effective resolutions to specific flexibility requirements.

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References
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Chun, D., Chung, Y., Woo, C., Seo, H., & Ko, H. (2015). Labor union effects on innovation and
commercialization productivity: An integrated propensity score matching and two-stage
data envelopment analysis. Sustainability, 7(5), 5120-5138.
Hirsch, B. T. (2017). What do unions do for economic performance?. In What do unions do? (pp.
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Myant, M. (2013). The impact of the economic crisis on collective bargaining in the Czech
Republic. Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research, 19(2), 185-194.