Policy Capturing Exercise on Labor Arbitrators.

Abstract

Decision modeling techniques have been very successful in capturing the policies of a wide variety of decision makers. This study attempts to model the decisions of labor arbitrators so that the arbitration process can be better understood. Policy capturing provides a systematized way of examining the trade-offs between issues that an arbitrator has to make when granting an award. The issues this study examines are efficiency, fairness, effect on worker, clear language of the contract, past practice, negotiating history, and previous awards. The data for this study is collected by first reading the facts and arguments of an actual arbitration case and then assigning a score to each of the issues. This data is then analyzed using discriminant and regression analysis techniques.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1979
Accession Number
ADA076157

Entities

People

  • David W. Lambert

Organizations

  • Air Force Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Agreements
  • Air Force
  • Case Studies
  • Cognition
  • Consistency
  • Data Analysis
  • Data Sets
  • Discriminant Analysis
  • Industrial Relations
  • Judicial Process
  • Judiciary
  • Law
  • Psychology
  • Regression Analysis
  • Social Sciences
  • Students
  • United States

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

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