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The Role of Ombudsmen in Dispute Resolution (2001) author.

The Role of Ombudsmen in Dispute Resolution (2001)

Full PDF Version April 13, 2001 The Honorable Daniel K. Akaka Ranking Member, Subcommittee on International Security, Proliferation, and Federal...

By United States General Accounting Office GAO

Confidentiality in Federal Alternative Dispute Resolution Programs (2000)

Full PDF Version Introduction. The subject of the document is confidentiality, which is a critical component of a successful ADR...

By Federal Alternative Dispute Resolution Council
Super-Optimizing For ADR Disputes author.

Super-Optimizing For ADR Disputes

I. CITIZEN-TO-CITIZEN DISPUTES Alternative dispute resolution is traditionally defined as resolving disputes peacefully by means other than going to court....

By Stuart Nagel
Merit Systems Protection Board Administrative Dispute Resolution Act of 2001 (Introduced in the House) author.

Merit Systems Protection Board Administrative Dispute Resolution Act of 2001 (Introduced in the House)

HR 1965 IH 107th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 1965 To clarify the Administrative Dispute Resolution Act of 1996 to...

By Managing Editor
Advances In ADR Within The Air Force author.

Advances In ADR Within The Air Force

Memorandum For Secreatary Widnall Shortly after Vice President Gore issued the Report of the National Performance Review (NPR) in September...

By Managing Editor
The Interactive ADA Accommodation Process author.

The Interactive ADA Accommodation Process

This article was first published in "Employment Update", a newsletter of Bullivant|Houser|Baily. Winter 2001, Volume 6, Number 1.The Americans With...

By Clay D. Creps, Douglas R. Andres
Managing By Agreement-The New MBA author.

Managing By Agreement-The New MBA

A Challenging Time for Organizations The capacity of technology is far greater than what most of us need. Regulation is...

By Stewart Levine

Trust And Betrayal

As a leader in the New Economy, you surely recognize the imperative of faster, smarter and newer. The entire business...

By Beata Lewis
Adversaries To Allies: Lessons From The San Diego City Schools Contract Negotiations author.

Adversaries To Allies: Lessons From The San Diego City Schools Contract Negotiations

Interest-based negotiation has been hailed as the savior of the contract bargaining process, enabling parties to reach better deals and...

By Grande Lum, Monica Christie
National Employment Dispute Resolution Act of 2001 (NEDRA) author.

National Employment Dispute Resolution Act of 2001 (NEDRA)

(Introduced in the House) HR 820 IH 107th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 820 To amend title VII of the...

By Managing Editor
The Many Costs of Conflict author.

The Many Costs of Conflict

In 1994, 18 million cases were filed in U.S. courts at a cost of $300 billion. 20% of Fortune 500...

By Stewart Levine

Evaluating ADR Programs (2001)

65 Federal Register 59200, 59208-14 (October 4, 2000) ADR Program Evaluation Recommendations I. Introduction The alternative dispute resolution (ADR) field...

By Federal Alternative Dispute Resolution Council
How Can We Communicate Better At Work? author.

How Can We Communicate Better At Work?

Have you ever received or given ambiguous instructions? Do you always provide information through memos or other written communication? Are...

By Managing Editor
Violence and Harassment In The Workplace: The 10 Most Common Mistakes Companies Make author.

Violence and Harassment In The Workplace: The 10 Most Common Mistakes Companies Make

They don't know how to define or identify a hostile workplace. A hostile workplace is any work environment where violence,...

By Lynne McClure
Negotiating Money Issues author.

Negotiating Money Issues

This article was previously published by CFIER. In the course of responding to inquiries about the use of an interest-based...

By Steve Barber
Guidelines For Mediation Of ADA Claims author.

Guidelines For Mediation Of ADA Claims

Reprinted with permission from ADR Currents, Vol. 5, No. 3 (Sept. -Nov. 2000), a publication of the American Arbitration Association.Violations...

By Bruce E. Meyerson
Workplace Conflict: An Inevitable Fact of Life author.

Workplace Conflict: An Inevitable Fact of Life

Conflict is an inevitable fact of any organizations life. Organizations that accept this truism, do so for many different reasons,...

By John Ford
Reducing The Costs Of Conflict Through Dispute Resolution Systems Design author.

Reducing The Costs Of Conflict Through Dispute Resolution Systems Design

"This article originally appeared in Track Two (Vol. 7 No. 2 August 1998) , a quarterly publication of the Centre...

By Peter Woodrow
Interview With David Lipsky-Part 2 author.

Interview With David Lipsky-Part 2

This article is courtesy of HR.com, a website committed to making the lives of HR professionals and business managers easier....

By Bob Delaney
Interview With David Lipsky-Part 1 author.

Interview With David Lipsky-Part 1

This article is courtesy of HR.com, a website committed to making the lives of HR professionals and business managers easier....

By Bob Delaney
Managing Cultural Differences author.

Managing Cultural Differences

Karen likes to spend a half-hour each week privately with each of her employees to sound out their concerns about...

By Daniel Dana
Strategies For A Successful Employment Mediation author.

Strategies For A Successful Employment Mediation

In October 1998, President Clinton signed the Dispute Resolution Act of 1998 mandating all federal courts to develop an ADR...

By Sara Adler
California Supreme Court Defines Procedural Requirements For Enforcing An Arbitration Clause author.

California Supreme Court Defines Procedural Requirements For Enforcing An Arbitration Clause

The California Supreme Court, in a unanimous decision written by Justice Mosk, has gone a long way towards defining the...

By Edward F. Sherman
National Employment Dispute Resolution Act of 2000 (NEDRA) author.

National Employment Dispute Resolution Act of 2000 (NEDRA)

(NEDRA) (Introduced in the House) HR 4593 IH 106th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 4593 To amend title VII of...

By Managing Editor
Unique Issues In Mediating ADA Disputes author.

Unique Issues In Mediating ADA Disputes

Reprinted with permission from ADR Report, Volume 3, Number 2, pages 5-8. Copyright 1999 by Pike and Fischer, Inc. Although...

By Judith Cohen
When And Why To Use An External Mediator author.

When And Why To Use An External Mediator

With the growing recognition that mediation is an important element in an effective conflict management system, many corporations are training...

By Tim Hicks
Mediation in Sexual Harassment Cases author.

Mediation in Sexual Harassment Cases

Currently, there are more rules, regulations, and laws dealing with sexual discrimination, and particularly sexual harassment, than any other substantive...

By Tim Hicks
Workplace ADR: Facts and Figures from the Federal Sector author.

Workplace ADR: Facts and Figures from the Federal Sector

Introduction A number of recent initiatives by Congress and the Government have encouraged the use of alternative methods of workplace...

By John Ford
Steps for Setting Up an Effective Conflict Management System author.

Steps for Setting Up an Effective Conflict Management System

Product and process. These are the two areas of focus for any successful business. As a business owner or manager,...

By Tim Hicks
What Is Mediation And How Does It Fit Into The Workplace? author.

What Is Mediation And How Does It Fit Into The Workplace?

Put two people together in the workplace (or anywhere else!) and there will be conflicts. So it goes with people!...

By Tim Hicks

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