The decision respects academic freedom of speech among tenured faculty while recognizing the reasonable management prerogatives of a university.
If the profit-earning PAL is allowed to lay off employees, what would stop other companies from doing the same in the name of "management prerogative?"
We think the revenue-sharing arrangement," Fehr said, "necessarily means that all sorts of things that have been management prerogatives can no longer be.
The two sides have met only once since the strike began, without making any headway in their disputes over pay, job security and management prerogative.
Such provisions typically reduce or eliminate what were previously management prerogatives.
In the past, company negotiators used to call quality a "management prerogative"; today labor-management cooperation has become an advertising theme.
Work becomes just work, workers become an abstract labour force, and the control over work becomes mainly a management prerogative.
Flexibility and judgment are management prerogatives that should exist in any decision process.
However, I believe the author's concern about too much "intrusion" by directors into management prerogatives stretches reality.
The Secretary of State remains answerable to Parliament and the everyday pressures of political life, concerned with services rather than management prerogatives.