“Not Fissures but Moments of Crises that Can Be Overcome”: Building a Relational Organizing Culture in Community Organizations and Trade Unions

Tapia, Maite

doi:10.1111/irel.12229

Cited by 30 publications

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“…This heightened awareness-and evidence that strong relational coordination across diverse roles creates new value in many industries-may provide less powerful stakeholders with the narrative they need to claim a more equitable share of that value. To address the epidemic of inequality in the United States and beyond, there is an opportunity for scholars and practitioners to design and test relational interventions in partnership with social movement organizations (Tapia, 2019).…”

Section: Achieving Equitable Outcomesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Revisiting Relational Coordination: A Systematic Review

Bolton

Logan

Gittell

2021

The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science

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Work is increasingly complex, specialized, and interdependent, requiring coordination across roles, disciplines, organizations, and sectors to achieve desired outcomes. Relational coordination theory proposes that relationships of shared goals, shared knowledge, and mutual respect help to support frequent, timely, accurate, problem-solving communication, and vice versa, enabling stakeholders to effectively coordinate their work across boundaries. While the theory contends that cross-cutting structures can strengthen relational coordination, and that relational coordination promotes desired outcomes for multiple stakeholders, the empirical evidence supporting the theory has not previously been synthesized. In this article, we systematically review all empirical studies assessing the predictors and outcomes of relational coordination published from 1991 to 2019. We find evidence supporting the existing theory and discuss how that evidence supports expanding the theory from a linear structure–process–outcomes model to a dynamic model of change. An agenda for researchers and practitioners is proposed.

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Section: Achieving Equitable Outcomesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Revisiting Relational Coordination: A Systematic Review

Bolton

Logan

Gittell

2021

The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science

131

201

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“…Social identity has also been discussed as an important variable in existing theories of union revitalization that emphasizes the importance of forming coalitions between unions and civil society groups as a way to gain power (e.g., Clawson 2003; Tattersall 2010; Yu 2014). Scholars in this camp have pointed out that many labor-community coalitions—while generally considered positive in terms of the organizations’ coalition building and mobilizing capacity (Tattersall 2010; Tapia 2019)—are typical examples of organizations that, like unions traditionally, intentionally choose not to engage in a deeper class, race, and gender analysis (Sen 2003).…”

Section: Opportunities For Crt/i To Shape Research On Worker Organizingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Confronting Race and Other Social Identity Erasures: The Case for Critical Industrial Relations Theory

Lee¹,

Tapia

2021

ILR Review

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Despite the salience of racism and other “isms” woven into the fabric of US society, there is a dearth of industrial relations (IR) scholarship that engages critical race and intersectional theory (CRT/I) to deeply understand how structural racism and other social identity-based systems of oppression govern labor and employment systems. The authors call for the incorporation of CRT/I into IR to address the erasure of vital counter-narratives and to expand our empirical cases for labor and employment research. Focusing on leading scholarship on worker organizing, the authors confront white dominance in our research questions, methodologies, and analyses to illustrate how traditional “color-blind” and meritocracy-based IR theories lead to the exclusion of relevant knowledge. In an era of heightened public discourse and worker uprisings in response to deep-rooted systemic inequities, critical industrial relations research is vital to the field’s relevance and its expertise in explaining the nature and consequences of contemporary labor contestations and their impact on the future of the labor movement.

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“…This approach yields particular returns in helping us to understand how labor groups and social activists can build effective responses to the challenges that organizational fragmentation creates. Their organizing framework is useful for categorizing diverse union strategies, ranging from transnational union campaigns (Anner 2011; McCallum 2013; Brookes 2019) and global framework agreements (Helfen, Schüßler, and Stevis 2016) to local bargaining in multinational corporation subsidiaries (Pulignano, Doerflinger, and De Franceschi 2016) and new forms of labor alliances and coalitions (Chun 2009; Donaghey and Reinecke 2018; Tapia 2019).…”

Section: The Need For New Perspectivesmentioning

confidence: 99%

New Directions in Employment Relations Theory: Understanding Fragmentation, Identity, and Legitimacy

Doellgast

Bidwell²,

Colvin

2021

ILR Review

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This article introduces the special issue on New Theories in Employment Relations. The authors summarize the history of employment relations theory and reflect on the implications of recent disruptive changes in the economy and society for new theory development. Three sets of changes are identified: the growing complexity of actors in the employment relationship, an increased emphasis on identity as a basis for organizing and extending labor protections, and the growing importance of norms and legitimacy as both a constraint on employer action and a mobilizing tool. The articles in this special issue advance new frameworks to analyze these changes and their implications for the future of employment relations.

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“Not Fissures but Moments of Crises that Can Be Overcome”: Building a Relational Organizing Culture in Community Organizations and Trade Unions

Cited by 30 publications

References 47 publications

Revisiting Relational Coordination: A Systematic Review

Revisiting Relational Coordination: A Systematic Review

Confronting Race and Other Social Identity Erasures: The Case for Critical Industrial Relations Theory

New Directions in Employment Relations Theory: Understanding Fragmentation, Identity, and Legitimacy

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