grievance

(noun)

A wrong or hardship suffered, which is the grounds of a complaint.

Related Terms

  • open-book management
  • feedback

Examples of grievance in the following topics:

  • Resolving Disagreements

    • Labor arbitration comes in two varieties: interest arbitration, which provides a method for resolving disputes about the terms to be included in a new contract when the parties are unable to agree, and grievance arbitration, which provides a method for resolving disputes over the interpretation and application of a collective bargaining agreement.
    • Unions and employers have also employed arbitration to resolve employee and union grievances arising under a collective bargaining agreement.
    • Grievance arbitration became even more popular during World War II, when most unions had adopted a no-strike pledge.
    • The Court held that grievance arbitration was a preferred dispute resolution technique and that courts could not overturn arbitrators' awards unless the award does not draw its essence from the collective bargaining agreement.
  • Complaint Procedures

    • Grievance and due process systems allow employees to address grievances and to argue their point if they feel they are wronged by management or another employee.
  • A Brief Definition

    • The collective agreements reached by these negotiations usually set out wage scales, working hours, training, health and safety, overtime, grievance mechanisms, and rights to participate in workplace or company affairs.
  • Job Design

    • Careful job design has been shown to increase job satisfaction, improve through-put, and lessen employee problems like grievances and absenteeism.
  • Providing employee voice and influence

    • Grievance and Due Process Systems allow employees to address grievances and to argue their point if they feel they are wronged by management or another employee.
  • Employee Retirement Income Security Act

    • Requires plans to establish a grievance and appeals process for participants to get benefits from their plans.
  • Strikes

    • A strike usually takes place in response to employee grievances.
  • Responding to the Preposterous

    • Try not to put yourself in the middle of someone else's problems with a third party or be counted as an "ally" in a grievance you're not involved in.
  • Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs

    • In the absence of economic safety – due to economic crisis and lack of work opportunities – these safety needs manifest themselves in such things as a preference for job security, grievance procedures for protecting the individual from unilateral authority, savings accounts, insurance policies, reasonable disability accommodations, and the like.
  • Advice From a Master Communicator

    • As an impulsive graduate student, I accumulated a mass of grievances about the policies and expectations of one of my professors.
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