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Browsing ILR Collection by Type "preprint"
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A Field Study of Early Organizational Outcomes from the Introduction of a Skill Based Pay Program
(1994-10-01)Despite the documented increased use of skill or knowledge based pay programs in organizations, little evidence exists to demonstrate whether these plans achieve the results that are intended. This study, a quasi-experimental, ... -
A Multilevel Analysis of the Effect of Prompting Self-Regulation in Technology-Delivered Instruction
(2008-11-01)We used a within-subjects design and multilevel modeling in two studies to examine the effect of prompting self-regulation, an intervention designed to improve learning from technology-delivered instruction. The results ... -
A Multilevel Analysis of the Effects of Technical Interruptions on Learning and Attrition From Web-Based Instruction
(2008-10-01)As training is increasingly integrated in the workplace and embedded in work technology, trainees are confronted by a variety of workplace and technological interruptions. This article presents a conceptual framework ... -
A Policy Capturing Approach to Individuals' Decisions to be Absent
(1991-04-01)This study provided a within-subjects assessment of the factors associated with an individual's decision to be absent, and examined whether there were differences between individuals in their decisions. A sample of maintenance ... -
A Qualitative Investigation of the Human Resource Management Practices in Small Businesses
(2004-04-01)This report provides a summary of our findings from the first phase of our study on human resource practices in small businesses based on qualitative interviews with top managers and owners of small businesses. Below we ... -
A Qualitative Investigation of the Human Resources Management Practices in Small Businesses
(2004-10-01)This report provides a summary of our findings from the first phase of our study on human resource practices in small businesses based on qualitative interviews with top managers and owners of small businesses. Below we ... -
A Resource-Based View Of International Human Resources: Toward A Framework of Integrative and Creative Capabilities
(2005-08-01)Drawing on organizational learning and MNC perspectives, we extend the resource-based view to address how international human resource management provides sustainable competitive advantage. We develop a framework that ... -
A Risk-Return Paradox: Risk, Performance-Based Pay and Performance
(1993-11-17)[Excerpt] In recent years, strategy researchers have examined the relationship between business risk and performance. The logic underlying this relationship is that organizations facing greater business risk seek to offset ... -
A Role-Based Taxonomy of Human Resource Organizations
(1992-07-10)[Excerpt] An empirically-derived classification (taxonomy) of human resource "departments", based on a few fundamental roles played in organizations, was developed as an alternative to the mostly speculative existing ... -
A SHRM Perspective on International Compensation and Reward Systems
(1998-05-02)We re-examine the efficacy of the SHRM perspective from the vantage point of a specific HRM system, international compensation and rewards, to gain new insights into existing conceptual models. Looking at SHRM from the ... -
A Signaling/Bonding Model of Employer Finance of General Training
(1988-09-15)[Excerpt] This paper challenges the general validity of these simple predictions. It begins in section 2 by presenting empirical evidence that (1) trainees often do not have to accept lower wage jobs in order to obtain ... -
A Strategic Perspective on Compensation Management
(1987-01-15)[Excerpt] The notion that compensation policies are strategic, thereby affecting the missions of the organization, has considerable currency. This is part of the current popularity of all things strategic. While some may ... -
A Strategy for Achieving Excellence in Secondary Education: The Role of State Government
(1991-06-20)[Excerpt] Business leaders are complaining about the declining quality of entry level workers in the U.S. They and others argue correctly that the competitiveness of American companies is threatened by the poor educational ... -
A Test of Ghiselli's "Hobo Syndrome"
(1992-09-10)Ghiselli (1974) observed that some workers possess internal impulses to migrate from one job to another irrespective of better alternatives or other apparently rational motives. Ghiselli labeled this tendency the "hobo ... -
A Theoretical Exploration of Firms' Decisions About Flexible Benefits Plans
(1992-03-01)The purpose of this paper is to examine the implications of current theories for organizations' decisions about employee benefits, an area that has traditionally received little attention from researchers in the field of ... -
A Theoretical Exploration of the Adoption and Design of Flexible Benefit Plans: A Case of Human Resource Innovation
(1997-09-01)This article explores theoretical explanations of managers' decisions about flexible benefit plans. We (1) examine the adoption and design of flexible benefit plans through four theoretic lenses: institutional, resource ... -
Academic Learning and National Productivity
(1991-08-29)[Excerpt] Concern about slackening productivity growth and deteriorating competitiveness has resulted, in many nations, in a new public focus on the quality and rigor of the elementary and secondary education received by ... -
Achievement, Test Scores and Relative Wages
(1989-12-01)[Excerpt] This article examines the causal connections between these two phenomena: changes in the academic achievement of high school graduates and changes in the payoff to college. Four specific questions are addressed. ... -
Achieving National Economic and Social Goals: The Counterproductive Role of Post-1965 Immigration Policy
(1995-09-01)[Excerpt] Immigration is a discretionary policy of every nation state. No citizen of any foreign nation has a right to enter any other country for the purpose of permanent settlement or for employment just because he or ... -
Adaptive Guidance: Effects On Self-Regulated Learning In Technology-Based Training
(2006-12-06)Guidance provides trainees with the information necessary to make effective use of the learner control inherent in technology-based training, but also allows them to retain a sense of control over their learning (Bell & ...
