A Pattern for the Study of Human Relations in Industry

Work in industrial human relations to date has been too narrowly oriented to needs and problems defined by management, in the view of the author of this discussion, who challenges researchers to broaden their horizons to include study of the attitudes of individual workers toward their jobs, of unions as social institutions, of the process of collective bargaining, and of the interrelationships among institutions and individuals in the economic process. (Author's abstract courtesy EBSCO.)