The Labour Problem: Command; Control; and Conflict

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The Labour Problem Command Control and Conflict

• Professor Roger Seifert BA(Oxon) MSc (Econ) PhD
  (London)

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HRM and Solving the Labour Problem

• The labour problem is relatively low productivity
• Managers seek to solve it through command (job
  regulation) control (ideology) and labour
  market realities
• Workers reject these efforts, formally and
  informally, some of the time leading to conflict

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Thank you

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