William A. Streshly / Todd A. DeMitchell

Teacher Unions and TQE

Building Quality Labor Relations

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This valuable resource guide provides ideas about how to improve school labour relations by incorporating the principles of Total Quality Management. It presents key historical concepts, necessary tools and important strategies for transforming the current status of school labour relations into one characterized by trust and openness, with the emphasis on students.

Table of contents:
Foreword - Larry E Frase
Teachers and Their Early Associations
How We Got Where We Are
Moving Toward Quality
Closing the Gap Between School Districts and Unions
Applying Deming's 14 Points to School District Labor Relations
Collective Bargaining
Barrier or Vehicle for Reform?
The Transition From Industrial Unionism to Professional Unionism
Launching a Quality Employer-Employee Relationship
New Quality in Employer-Employee Relations
The Emergence of the Policy Trust Agreement
Planning and Troubleshooting Guide

Produktdetails

• Verlag: SAGE Publications
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780803960909
• ISBN-10: 0803960905
• Artikelnr.: 63461672

Autorenporträt

William A. Streshly is Professor of Educational Administration at San Diego State University. He has twenty-five years of experience in public school administration, including more than thirteen years as district superintendent, five years as high school principal, five years as vice principal, and two years as counselor and student activities adviser. Currently, he teaches school law and finance in addition to coordinating San Diego State Universitys Administrative Credential Program. He has published articles on character educashy;tion, staff development, curriculum development, competency testing, school finance, school labor relations, restructuring schools, and managing change. He is the coauthor of two other books, The Top Ten Myths in Education and Teacher Unions and TQE. A fourth book on teacher unions is scheduled to be released in the fall of 2001. He has served as speaker and consultant for xviii Avoiding Legal Hassles more than thirty state and national conferences, school districts, and professional organizations, in addition to scores of speaking engagements for community service clubs, chambers of commerce, alumni clubs, and political groups. He has served as a leader in numerous community/civic organizations and has served as an educational adviser to county, state, and federal officials. John Walsh is an attorney with Best Best amp; Krieger LLP in Riverside, California. His practice includes school law, public agency law, and general litigation. He graduated cum laude from Loyola Law School and was elected to the Order of the Coif, an international academic honor association. While in law school, he received American Jurisprudence Awards for his studies of contracts and trial advocacy. He also holds a doctorate in history from the Clareshy;mont Graduate University, Clareshy; mont, California; a masters degree in history from American Unishy;versity, Washington, D.C.; and an undergraduate degree in politics and history from Queens University, Ontario, Canada, where he graduated with honors. He represents a wide variety of school districts, colleges, and public agencies and also writes and gives presentations on legal issues of importance to his school disshy;trict clients. His article on peer sexual harassment appeared in the Hastings Womens Law Journal. Prior to practicing law, he taught history and American studies at Claremont McKenna College (Claremeont, California), Occidental College (Los Angeles), and in the Rancho Santiago Community College District.