GLOBAL IMPLICATIONS OF RECENT INNOVATIONS IN US COLLECTIVE-BARGAINING

This paper deals with recent innovations in cooperative forms of colle ctive bargaining. The authors begin by reviewing the wide range of hig hly cooperative approaches to negotiations. They then focus on a fairl y comprehensive model, which is termed ''target-specific bargaining.'' Finally, they explore some of the crosscultural implications associat ed with applying the new forms of bargaining outside the North America n context in two very different countries, Poland and South Africa.