But another thing which has been neglected in the chapter is represented by the attitudes of the employees in the private and the public sector. In this order of ideas, the employees in the private sector function in a corporate environment, in which emphasis is placed on perfection, development and gains. And they have come to focus on these values, meaning that bargaining is a means of attaining these objectives for themselves. The employees in the public sector however were less eager to demand new rights and rewards. Some professionals even "resisted joining the bargaining movement because they viewed bargaining as an unprofessional behavior" (Cayer, 2003).
As the chapter completes the discussion of the public sector employees and labor relations, it moves on to describing the concept of bargaining, through various lenses, such as those of the negotiation process, the procedures to resolving impasses, mediation, arbitration or referendums. In cases when...
In such a context, emphasis is placed on negotiation and the reaching of mutual understandings.
Overall, the eighth chapter offers additional information on the bargaining processes, the paths taken in the resolution, but most importantly, it explains the differences and the causes of the differences in the management of labor relations within the private and the public sector. This feature of the chapter creates valuable information in the process of better understating the particularities of labor in private and public sectors.
