The phenomenology of union decision-making: A new way to enquire into reality.

In Robert Keith Shaw & Ashish Malik (eds.), Proceedings of the Australia and New Zealand Academy of Management Conference, 2011. ANZAM (2011)
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Abstract

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

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Robert Keith Shaw
University of Auckland (PhD)

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