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Collective Bargaining and Human Resource Managers

Human resource managers are typically involved in setting up the pay schedules and work environment for organizations. In many small organizations, these arrangement are made directly with the company's managers and employees; in larger organizations, there may be collective bargaining units (unions)

which negotiate on behalf of employees. Human resource

professionals must be able to negotiate effectively, or to hire

negotiators to represent the company's interest, recognizing that the relationship between employees and management is a mutually beneficial one, but one which can also put the various parties at crosspurposes. This research investigates the collective bargaining process in general, and considers the specific problems which human resource professionals face when dealing collective bargaining in professional sports organizations.

While collective bargaining guidelines are wellestablished for traditional industries such as automobiles and steel, collective bargaining in professional sports is a relatively new development. It is only recently that players have been allowed to exercise some "free agency" with regard with which team they are associated, and some players continue to be traded among teams against their preferences. Contracts are negotiated on an individual basis by players' agents and managers, but there are collective bargaining agreements which govern general contract provisions for all players. This is considerably different from most collective bargaining situations where individual employees do not have individual contracts separate from their co-workers. Given the unique features of the professional sport industry, the problem to be addressed is how human resource managers can approach collective bargaining in a sports environment, and what changes might need to be made to the process.

Major League Baseball went through a strike in the mid199Os and the National Basketball Association ju...

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