Employment Relations
Subjects: Unions , Strategic HRM , Employee Voice and Involvement , Retirement and Pensions

Publications (by Dionne Pohler)
Are Unions Good or Bad for Organizations? The Moderating Role of Management's Response
Unions can be good or bad. It depends on management's strategies and response toward its employees and the union.
Multinationals' Compliance with Employment Law: An Empirical Assessment Using Administrative Data from Ontario, 2004-2015
Do multinational companies comply with the law in a developed country like Canada? Our key findings based on data from Ontario suggest that unions predict compliance across all foreign MNCs, and there are systematic country-of-origin effects on MNC compliance in non-unionized workplaces.
Balancing Efficiency, Equity and Voice: The Impact of Unions and High Involvement Work Practices on Work Outcomes
Are HR practices that encourage employee voice and involvement in decision-making, high involvement work practices, substitutes for unions? We propose that unions and high involvement work practices and systems are complements. Greater balance is achieved between efficiency, equity, and voice when good management practices are employed in the presence of unions.
The Missing Employee in Employee Voice Research
A review of the research on employee voice in the workplace, with associated insights and recommendations for future research.
The Merit of a Points-Based Merit System at the Edwards School of Business
A case study of the challenges in implementing a points-based merit system at a business school.

Other Publications
Ontario Changing Workplaces Review
Find the commissioned research reports and the final government report for the Government of Ontario's recent review of its employment and labour law.

Other Valuable Information
The five-week college teachers' strike in Ontario was one of the longest labour stoppages in the system's history. Panelists discuss the implications of the strike for different stakeholders.