- Title
- The phenomenology of union decision-making: a new way to enquire into reality.
- Creator
- Malik, Ashish; Shaw, Robert
- Relation
- 25th Annual Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management (ANZAM) Conference: The Future of Work and Organisations. Proceedings of the 25th Annual Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management (ANZAM) Conference (Wellington, New Zealand 6-9 December, 2011)
- Relation
- http://www.anzam.org/events/types/events-conference
- Publisher
- Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management (ANZAM)
- Resource Type
- conference paper
- Date
- 2011
- Description
- This paper inaugurates a discussion about the phenomenology of union decision-making. Phenomenology provides a new lens that may enable us to gain penetrating insights into how unions function in the fractious world of human resources management. The present paper is preliminary to any fieldwork that may be undertaken. Its main purposes are to identify theory that could be the foundation of further practical work, relate recent work in the phenomenology of management to union practices and to propose directions of enquiry. The relevant theory is that of Edmund Husserl who provides us with a practical method of enquiry into the real world of human resource practice. Husserl’s work has already been applied in relation to local government functioning and some of the findings there appear relevant to the present enquiry. In particular, the nature and role of plebiscites – when seen with the phenomenological lens – challenges our ideas about the rationality of union decisions and how they affect union members and businesses.
- Subject
- unions; decision making; business research methods; phenomenology
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1052654
- Identifier
- uon:15461
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781877040870
- Language
- eng
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