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The View from the Top: How Strategic Human Resource Management Affects the Performance of Initial Public Offering Firms
(1997-11-01)We study SHRM by taking an organizational level perspective on control over all employees. Drawing from agency theory, control theory, and the resource-based view of the firm, we develop hypotheses regarding the differential ... -
The Work Ethic
(1995-06-01)[Excerpt] In everyday usage of the term 'Work Ethic' is almost indistinguishable from work satisfaction or simply attitudes to work. Do people value work or not, or are they in various degrees indifferent to it? Since most ... -
The Worsening Shortage of College Graduate Workers
(1990-12-01)The Bureau of Labor Statistics projections of occupational employment growth have consistently underpredicted the growth of skilled occupations. BLS currently projects that professional, technical and managerial jobs will ... -
The Worsening Shortage of College-Graduate Workers
(1991-09-01)The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) projections of occupational employment growth have consistently underpredicted the growth of skilled occupations. BLS currently projects that professional, technical, and managerial ... -
Theoretical and Empirical Challenges in Studying: The HR Practice - Firm Performance Relationship
(2000-03-30)Over the past 10 years a plethora of research has been conducted seeking to establish a relationship between human resource (HR) practices and firm performance. While this research has demonstrated promising results, a ... -
'They Come Here To Work': An Evaluation of the Economic Argument In Favor Of Immigrant Rights
(2015-01-01)Advocates commonly highlight the exploitation that hard-working undocumented immigrants commonly suffer at the hands of employers, the important contribution they make to the US economy, and the fiscal folly of border ... -
Think Globally, Film Locally [Review of the Ann Lewis film 'Morristown']
(2008-01-01)[Excerpt] Morristown brings to life the human element missing from the political and legal analysis of the issues presented in this symposium issue. The hour-long documentary takes us back and forth from an Eastern Tennessee ... -
Thinking About You: Perspective Taking, Perceived Restraint, and Performance
(2015-01-01)Conflict often arises when incompatible ideas, values or interests lead to actions that harm others. Increasing people’s willingness to refrain from harming others can play a critical role in preventing conflict and fostering ... -
Thomas Robert Malthus: The Economist
(1998-04-01)"As Robert Heilbroner has so aptly observed, economics has produced "a handful of men" whose contributions to mankind have been "more decisive for history than many acts of statesman who basked in brighter glory, often ... -
Three Conceptual Themes for Future Research on Teams
(2012-01-01)[Excerpt] Tannenbaum, Mathieu, Salas, and Cohen (2011) identify three change themes – dynamic composition, technology/distance, and delayering/empowerment – that are affecting the nature of teams and discuss future research ... -
Three Plants, Three Futures
(1989-01-01)To spread teamwork and cooperation, managers need to reform themselves—especially their attitudes about workers. At NUMMI, management has provided a system of work and rewards that has earned the loyalty of most employees ... -
Time Pressure and the Development of Integrative Agreements in Bilateral Negotiations
(1986-01-01)A laboratory experiment examined the effects of time pressure on the process and outcome of integrative bargaining. Time pressure was operationalized in terms of the amount of time available to negotiate. As hypothesized, ... -
To Cure Labor’s Ills Bigger Unions, Fewer of Them
(1985-11-16)[Excerpt] Only big, coordinated unions can stop employers from playing off one group of workers against another. Only strong national union organizations that prove they can stand up to the power of the big corporations ... -
Tomorrow's Compensation and Rewards Shaped by Today's Choices
(1992-07-09)[Excerpt] Today's trends shape tomorrow. This is as true for the weather as it is for the way people are paid. Employee compensation in the future is being shaped by the choices we make today. So, by examining these choices, ... -
‘‘Too Hard on the Women, Especially’’: Striking Together for Women Workers’ Issues
(2006-12-01)This essay draws upon a larger study of over forty strikes which involved both male and female strikers in the United States between the years 1887 and 1903. Here the focus of analysis is on those strikes which began with ... -
Toward a Model of Education and Labor Markets in Labor Surplus Economies
(1973-01-01)[Excerpt] This model is intended to describe the essential relationships between the demand for and supply of education and the demand for and supply of educated workers. The terms "education" and "training" will be used ... -
Toward A Model of International Compensation and Rewards: Learning From how Managers Respond to Variations in Local Host Contexts
(2000-11-01)Managers and researchers recognize that the tensions created by the interplay of globalization and national environments influence the behaviors of multinational enterprises (MNEs). In order to develop a model that is ... -
Toward a Strategic Human Resource Management Model of High Reliability Organization Performance
(2004-03-01)In this article, we extend strategic human resource management (SHRM) thinking to theory and research on high reliability organizations (HROs) using a behavioral approach. After considering the viability of reliability as ... -
Toward a Strategic Perspective of Human Resource Management
(1987-09-19)[Excerpt] The current decade has brought yet another transformation in the practice and study of human resource management (HRM). The field, for better or for worse, has discovered, and indeed begun to embrace, a strategic ... -
Toward a Strategic Theory of Workplace Conflict Management
(2008-01-01)[Excerpt] In this article, we propose a new model or theory of conflict management that we believe not only incorporates lessons we have learned about the use of ADR and conflict management systems in the workplace but ...
