Labor Management Partnership Council Case Study

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One approach to decision making for two groups that have competing agenda’s is to form a partnership council. For the past two years, I have been facilitating the Labor Management Partnership Council. Using techniques like brainstorming, nominal group technique, and muli-group technique, which are all facilitation tools used to help the group form a decision. The partnership council is where union representatives headed by the Union President, and management representatives headed by the Chief Negotiator have formed a council. This council has a goal of discussing and resolving issues that affect the interest of both the union and management, heading off any grievances before they are made. When organizational policies are being written,

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