Rise and Decline of Labor-Management Cooperation: Lessons from Health Care in the Twin Cities Harvard Case Solution & Analysis

Labor management cooperation is considered for many years as a panacea for the ills of competitive organizations. Academic and popular press welcomes the joint efforts of companies and their labor unions to come together to solve competitive problems saving employees jobs. In addition, research and examples of labor management cooperation have found that by working together, unions and firms can improve organizational performance and employee outcomes.

Increasingly, however, it seems that cooperation is often, but not long phenomenon. This article focuses on the key initiatives of labor management cooperation, which was designed to facilitate the fundamental restructuring of health care delivery in the Minneapolis / St. Paul, Minnesota. In 10 years of managing more than a dozen hospitals and representatives of the Association of Minnesota Nurses' come together to negotiate and manage the process of system integration, rationalization and improvement of delivery. The results were remarkable. However, several years later, despite the success, only fragments of the control cooperation remain at these hospitals. This article discusses the causes of the death, and gives lessons to those who engage in cooperation of enterprises, which can help extend the life of these initiatives. "Hide
by Gil Preuss, Ann C. Frost Source: California Management Review 23 pages. Publication Date: January 1, 2003. Prod. #: CMR250-PDF-ENG

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