Bob Monson is a consultant to management with 44 years experience in the areas of labor
relations, management development, and human resources management. His firms, Productivity Improvement, Inc. and Academy Labor Relations in Minneapolis, Minnesota
specialize in labor relations and productivity improvement systems. He has represented
many clients in several
hundred cases involving N.L.R.B. petitions and charges, E.E.O.C.
and state discrimination
charges, and is the author of the following publications and seminars of the same titles:
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How to Maintain Non-Union Status |
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Union Decertification and Deunionization |
| • Union Decertification and Deunionization |
| • Results Through Effective Managers |
| • Results Through Effective Supervisors |
| • Pre-Supervisory Training |
American Management Associations published his work on Productivity Improvement
and Labor Relations in the AMACOM Human Resources Management and Development
Handbook. His
work in the labor relations and productivity fields precisely defines how
to create efficient operations, reduce costs, improve overall employee productivity and
participation, and improve profitability, preferably without union involvment.
He has held management and technical positions in the mining industry, the oil industry
in Saudi Arabia, truck manufacturing, and holds B.A., B.S., and M.A. degrees from the University of Minnesota. In 1981, he completed a study tour of China in reference to its industrialization and modernization. The tour included conferences at the productivity
centers in Tokyo and Hong Kong.
In 1983, he was a participant in the first International Productivity Symposium in Tokyo sponsored
by the Japan Productivity Center and under
the patronage of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
Productivity improvement and preventive labor relations systems are the basic keys to future organization success. Those organizations that accept this premise will be the future successful leaders, since these systems provide the competitive edge in today’s world.
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