Description
Book SynopsisThe chapters in this text are designed to provide administrators and leaders with background and strategy to help assist them in designing their own play calls when dealing with employees, unions, and labor leadership. Each chapter herein contains Coaches Corner and You Make the Call case study sections to help review the educational leadership message that was set forth in the pages of the chapter and provide a real-life inbox scenario for leaders and aspiring school executives who can discuss different play calls to utilize in specific circumstances. Sharing these discussions among students and leadership teams allows for growth and a sharing of ideas among individuals in the field.
Trade ReviewNavigating the gauntlet of leader responsibilities can be a daunting task for new and experienced leaders alike. Dr. Tomko provides a detailed map for navigating labor issues while also employing strong relationship-building and communication skills. This is difficult work and is often compartmentalized, narrowing the vision for robust decision making. Dr. Tomko's publication creates a clearly articulated path for how to blend the leadership spaces of the manager and the team builder to assist in building a healthy organization.
-- Kimberley Harrington Markus, Former New Jersey Commissioner of Education, Chief Education Officer of the Education Research and Development Institute
Tomko has squarely hit the mark in Navigating the Workplace: What School Executives Should Know About Labor Relations and comes at a time when unprecedented challenges in public and private education, at all levels, require leaders to possess, or quickly acquire, skills that set the tone in establishing an organizational culture that leads to institutional success or failure. This book is an outstanding tool for both seasoned and new educational leaders searching for ways to positively address evolving dynamics between themselves and their teams. I am also impressed by the way Tomko presents to the reader a balance between theory, while also offering a “real world” perspective based on his extensive experience as a school superintendent and educational researcher and provides the reader with a best practices approach towards confronting labor relations issues as an educational executive in our nation’s schools, colleges and universities.
-- William J. Bisset, PhD, University Vice President for Enrollment Management and Student Affairs
Table of ContentsPreface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1Education, Personnel, and the Labor Movement
2Organizational Hierarchy
3History of Unions and Organized Labor
4Politics in the Workplace
5The Importance of the Labor/Management Relationship
6Labor Laws
7Labor Defined Among Industries
8Leading Together
9Power
10Negotiating to Win
11Contracts, Agreements, “Handshakes,” and Past Practice
12It’s Not What You’re Selling, It’s How You’re Selling it
13When to “Go to the Mattresses”
14Communication is Key
15Trust
16Strong leadership on Both Sides
17The Willingness to make Concessions
18The Art of Negotiation
19Response to Actions
20Antiunion Animus
21Pyrrhic Victories and Strategies of Labor Unions
22Avoiding Work Actions
23To Be or Not to Be: When Something Truly Is or Isn't the Appropriate Decision
24The Goldilocks Approach: Not Too Hot and Not Too Cold
25Impact of Important Labor Court Cases, Legal Considerations, and Precedents
