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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 ... -
Toward a Theory of Learner-Centered Training Design: An Integrative Framework of Active Learning
(2009-01-01)[Excerpt] The goal of this chapter, therefore, is to develop an integrative conceptual framework of active learning, and we do this by focusing on three primary issues. First, we define the active learning approach and ... -
Toward a Unifying Framework for Exploring Fit and Flexibility in Strategic Human Resource Management
(1997-08-01)This paper presents a framework for studying the concepts of fit and flexibility in the field of Strategic Human Resource Management (Strategic HRM) focusing on HRM practices, employee skills, and employee behaviors and ... -
Toward More Valid Evaluations Of Training Programs Serving the Disadvantaged
(1987-03-18)The paper challenges the widespread assumption that the wage effects of federal training programs are reliable and unbiased estimates of productivity effects and social benefits. Evidence is presented that the reputations ... -
Trade and Labour Standards: A Review of the Issues
(1995-01-01)[Excerpt] This is a paper by a labour economist for trade specialists. It is written at a time of hope tempered by fear. On the trade side, the hope is that the new World Trade Organisation will stimulate a better trading ... -
Trade Liberalization and Labour Law
(2006-09-01)[Excerpt] This general report considers 23 national reports from colleagues in North America, South America, Central America and the Caribbean; in Western, Eastern, Northern and Southern Europe; and in the Asia-Pacific ... -
Trade Strategies and the Poor: Adjusting to New Realities
(1988-01-01)[Excerpt] The major policy issue examined in this paper is that of a country's choice of a trade strategy in the context of helping the poor. As the end of the 1980s approaches, developing countries face a much more difficult ... -
Trade Union Growth and Decline in Asia
(2002-09-01)We examine trends in union density and union influence in several Asian countries. While we find considerable variation in union density across the countries in our sample, all of the labour movements in these countries ... -
Trade Unions and Collective Bargaining: Suggestions for Emerging Democracies in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union
(1993-01-01)This paper provides lessons for industrial relations reform efforts in the new nations emerging from the former Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc. Our purpose is to identify the basic industrial-relations practices that enable ... -
Trade Unions and Human Rights
(2008-01-01)[Excerpt] In the 1990s the parallel but separate tracks of the labor movement and the human rights movement began to converge. This chapter examines how trade union advocates adopted human rights analyses and arguments in ... -
Trade Unions, NGOs, and Corporate Codes of Conduct
(2001-01-01)[Excerpt] The proliferation of corporate codes of conduct generates both alliance and tension between trade unions and NGOs that deal with workers’ rights in the global economy. Alliance, because trade unions and NGOs share ... -
Trade’s Hidden Costs: Worker Rights in a Changing World Economy
(1988-01-01)[Excerpt] For decades, the U.S. foreign assistance program has sought with limited results to further economic development and growth in Third World countries. We have witnessed some countries making real progress toward ... -
Training and Workforce Preparedness: Introduction
(1990-09-01)"An introduction to a special, multi-part report on training and workforce preparedness." -
Transforming Human Resource Organizations: A Field Study of Future Competency Requirements
(1995-07-01)As human resource organizations transform, staff competency requirements after significantly. The question is: to what? The present study attempts to answer this question using data gathered from knowledgeable observers ... -
TRANSPORTZYKLONBKREMATORIA
(1982-09-01)[Excerpt] Recently a number of books and articles have appeared which should persuade historians to reconsider some of America's activities during World War II. One work, British Intelligence in the Second World War (1981), ...
