Word: ownership
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...second major trend involves the top-down, staff-driven management style the Assistant Dean has attempted to impose on PBHA. PBHA has always thrived on the groundswell of student energy created when students are given both true ownership over their programs and substantive leadership opportunities. This is in direct contradiction to the Assistant Dean's corporate approach--a hierarchical one without student or client input...
...command students to act a certain way. Without consulting students or fully understanding the nuances of any given situation, she made a decision at the top that was not supported by or made in conjunction with those actually performing the service. This counteracts the long history of student ownership that has made PBHA work. Such staff management will diminish both the student experience and the quality of the programs...
...difference at United, the nation's second largest airline, is that its employees (not including flight attendants) happen to own the company, and the rising bitterness among its pilots and machinists threatens the entire premise of employee ownership. In 1994 United employees completed a purchase of 55% of the company. In exchange for their ownership stake, they made concessions totaling $4.8 billion. (Pilots as a group own 25% of the company.) They also gave up their right to strike. Yet United's pilots, embittered by what they feel was harsh and callous treatment of them by their management during labor...
...meantime, United must worry about its 20,000-strong Association of Flight Attendants, which opted out of the employee-ownership plan and thus can strike. The union and the company are mired in negotiations that, according to union spokeswoman Jill Gallagher, are "not going well at all." The union is already conducting "informational picketing" at selected sites...
Northwest Airlines is another labor trouble spot, with six unions currently in negotiations. Like United, Northwest gave its employees ownership of one-third of the company in exchange for 15% across-the-board pay cuts for three years. All parties are paying close attention to what happens at American. "The airline industry is a copycat industry," says Paul Omodt of ALPA in Minneapolis, Minnesota, which represents Northwest pilots. "What happens at one airline happens at another. There's not a lot of original thought." Labor negotiations are also due to begin at Continental...