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This 5 page paper examines an article on the ineffectiveness of employee grievance programs. Issues of power within the corporation are explored. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Personnel Management and may be found in several Internet libraries. The article makes an excellent point in that power plays are a part of the game and the grievance programs
that have cropped up, purportedly to protect employees, have their own set of rules. In a footnote, a significant point is conveyed: " The authors argue that in the
legalization of organizations a power paradox exists where, although law-like policies and procedures are designed to ensure workplace justice, they are developed, implemented, and administered by managers who know how
to use them to protect the status quo" (Sitkin and Bies, 1994 as cited in Haraway, 2005). In other words, when an employee complains to the personnel department because they
feel that they are wronged, it is not much better than complaining to the boss. In the end, they still may be ignored and even get into more trouble. In
general, an organization has a vested interest in maintaining the status quo. The same thing occurs in school situations where when a parent complains about a tenured teacher, there
are numerous political ramifications involved in taking a negative action against the teacher. Protected by tenure, and the union, and supported by the board, it seems that the power is
lodged in one area and the public has little chance of changing things. In all organizations power seems to matter and this article brings that point forth. Haraway (2005)
explains that the grievance programs are really designed to protect the power that exists within the organization. This is because organizations are concerned with how things look, as opposed to
who gets justice (Haraway, 2005). The idea that things are not fair may be disenchanting to the average worker, but many workers learn that they have little power anyway. The
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