Chapter 9

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Taylor, V. F., and Provitera, M. J. (2011). Teaching Labor Relations With Norma Rae. Journal of Management Education, 35, (5): 749-766.

1. Is it true that business students negate attitudes toward unions?
2. Is the film “Norma Rae” one of the best films about unions that one can ever see?
3. Why are managers so much against workers forming a union?

Becker, B. E., and Huselid, M. A. (2006). Strategic Human Resources Management: Where Do We Go From Here? Journal of Management, 32 (6): 898-925.

1. Why should a firm focus on its strategic capabilities?
2. What is the high performance work system called “best practices?”
3. Why does the strategy literature focuses on sustained competitive advantage as the basis for above-average firm performance?