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Recognizing Creative Leadership: Can Creative Idea Expression Negatively Relate to Perceptions of Leadership Potential?
(2010-01-01)Drawing on and extending prototype theories of creativity and leadership, we theorize that the expression of creative ideas may diminish judgments of leadership potential unless the charismatic leadership prototype is ... -
Recognizing Risk in Human Capital Investments: A Real Options Approach to Strategic Human Resource Management
(2000-11-01)An issue that has not yet been explored in the field of strategic human resource management (SHRM) is that of managing the ‘risks’ involved in human capital management of the firm. We address this issue using the real ... -
Recruiter Perceptions of Applicant Fit: Commonalities and Differences
(1992-01-01)To date, normative selection models have focused primarily on matching individual knowledges, skills, and abilities to job requirements. However, it has increasingly been argued that people should also be selected for fit ... -
Recruitment and Decision-Making: The Effects of Early Recruitment Practices on the Decision to Apply to an Organization
(1999-01-01)This study explored the relationship between early recruitment practices (company visibility, social networking, campus presence and traditional practices) and decision making during the initial phase of the recruitment ... -
Recruitment and Selection
(2009-01-01)[Excerpt] In this chapter, we look to address the second issue by developing a theoretical model of the link between different staffing systems and firm-level performance. We first look to existing theory on organizational ... -
Recruitment Research and Applicant Attraction: What Have We Learned?
(1989-01-01)Developing labor shortages are increasing the importance of recruitment to organizations. However, previous recruitment research has provided few operational guidelines for persuading high quality candidates to apply for, ... -
Recruitment, Job Choice, and Post-Hire Consequences: A Call For New Research Directions
(1989-01-01)[Excerpt] "Technology in employee selection is more highly developed than in recruiting or placement; therefore, the major emphasis is on selection Recruiting or placement are not less important processes; to the contrary, ... -
Reducing Poverty: The Overall Framework
(2003-01-01)[Excerpt] How private firms contribute to economic mobility and poverty reduction and what governments can do to enhance their contribution is the theme of this book. We look first at the positive role the private sector ... -
Reflections on PATCO’s Legacy: Labor’s Strategic Challenges Persist
(2006-09-01)[Excerpt] The 1981 strike by over 11,000 members of the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) stands out as a symbol of union decline. This dismal legacy is a product of President Ronald Reagan’s harsh ... -
Reforming Social Security and Social Safety Net Programs in Developing Countries
(1993-09-27)[Excerpt] Developing country governments around the world, as well as the development agencies advising them, have become increasingly alarmed about the cost of social security systems and social safety net programs and ... -
Reframing Turnover/Personality Research in the Context of the Attraction-Selection-Attrition Hypothesis
(1990-06-01)This paper re-examines data originally reported by Cowan & Dreher (1983) in their examination of personality correlates of turnover among managerial, professional, and technical employees. It is intended to reframe the ... -
Regimes, Resistance and Reforms: Comparing Workers' Politics in the Automobile Industry in China and India
(McMaster University Library Press, 2021-01)The automobile industry in China was shaken by an unprecedented upsurge of labour unrest in 2010, beginning with the much-discussed wildcat strike at the Nanhai Honda transmission plant in Guangdong province. While worker ... -
Regional Inequality and Other Sources of Income Variation in Colombia
(1980-04-01)[Excerpt] Regional inequality is of interest for a variety of reasons: planning development policies aimed at alleviating poverty and reducing personal inequality, gauging the degree of a country's labor market integration, ... -
Regional Integration and Transnational Labor Strategies under NAFTA
(1994-01-01)[Excerpt] This paper argues that while the internationalization of the economy has tended to weaken national labor movements, the internationalization of domestic politics may expand the traditional arenas for strategic ... -
Regional Integration and Transnational Politics: Popular Sector Strategies in the NAFTA Era
(1997-01-01)[Excerpt] This chapter argues that although economic integration between the United States and Mexico had been taking place for some time, it was the formal recognition of this process as represented by the discussions ... -
Regional Labour Market Integration in England and Wales, 1850-1913
(1994-01-01)[Excerpt] This chapter examines the integration of labour markets within the rural and urban sectors of England and Wales during the second half of the nineteenth century. Although there is a large literature on internal ... -
Regulatory Focus and Interdependent Economic Decision-Making
(2013-01-01)Traditional theories of self-interest cannot predict when individuals pursue relative and absolute economic outcomes in interdependent decision-making, but we argue that regulatory focus (Higgins, 1997) can. We propose ... -
Reining-in a Rogue Policy: The Imperative of Immigration Reform
(1999-03-01)[Excerpt] It was Napoleon who said “policy is destiny.” There are few better examples of the direct link between the change-creating influences of public policies on subsequent societal outcomes than immigration policy. ... -
Reining-in a Rogue Policy: The Imperative of Immigration Reform
(1999-01-01)"It was Napoleon who said, "Policy is destiny." There are few better examples of the direct link between the change-creating influences of public policies on subsequent societal outcomes than immigration policy. As with ... -
Reinventing an Organizing Union: Strategies for Change
(1994-01-01)[Excerpt] Confronted by declining membership and market share as well as an erosion of bargaining strength and political influence, a sense of crisis now pervades many international unions. Some labor unions continue to ...
