Part 1:
Question 1:
What are some key obstacles that stand in the way of true cooperation by labor and management?
Please list the obstacles you consider to be most significant. Do you believe these obstacles can be overcome? If so, how?
Question 2:
As noted, the chapter starts out with a high note in terms of labor-management relationships. However, later, on page 525, we are given "four lessons from skilled negotiators". The first one, we are told - the single biggest tool - is to be willing to walk away without a deal.
Isn't this idea contrary to where we are trying to go in labor-management relations? Take a position and tell us why or why not.