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Unions and Managerial Pay
(1997-12-01)Unions compress the wage distribution among workers covered by union contracts. We ask whether unions also have an effect on the managers of unionized firms. To this end we collected and assembled data on unionization and ... -
Unions and Productivity in the Public Sector: A Study of Municipal Libraries
(1983-01-01)This paper develops and illustrates the use of two methodologies to analyze the effect of unions on productivity in the public sector. Although the methodologies are applicable to a wide variety of public sector functions, ... -
Unions and the Contingent Work Force
(1988-11-01)[Excerpt] Unions seeking to organize the unorganized face increasing numbers of part-time, temporary and leased employees. These contingent workers now make up more than a quarter of the American work force. Of the new ... -
Unions and the Contingent Workforce
(1994-01-01)"In 1985, Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, Texas, announced that it was going to contract out the work of its food-service department, effectively terminating 156 employees. This action was taken despite ... -
Unions and the Labor Market for Managers
(2000-08-01)We examine the relationship between the employment and compensation of managers and CEOs and the presence of a unionized workforce. We develop a simple efficiency wage model, with a tradeoff between higher wages for workers ... -
Unions Impose Stability on a Turbulent Construction Industry
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Unions, Associations and Twenty-First Century Professionals
(2008-03-01)[Excerpt] Unions that represent professional and technical workers are at a critical juncture in their evolution. On the one hand, there is tremendous opportunity; disproportionate employment growth can be expected for ... -
Unions, Markets, and Democracy in Latin America
(2004-01-01)[Excerpt] In the 1990s scholars of Latin America moved from a concern with democratization to a focus on the implementation of market economic reforms. With this shift, the appreciation of labor unions' value to society ... -
Unit-Level Voluntary Turnover Rates and Customer Service Quality: Implications of Group Cohesiveness, Newcomer Concentration, and Size
(2009-07-01)Despite substantial growth in the service industry and emerging work on turnover consequences, little research examines how unit-level turnover rates affect essential customer-related outcomes. The authors propose an ... -
Up Against the Fallen Wall: The Crisis of Social Partnership in Unified Germany
(1997-01-01)[Excerpt] This book addresses two central and related sets of questions. First, what type of political economy is emerging in unified Germany? How "West German" is it? Is Germany permanently polarized into East and West ... -
Upper Echelon Theory Revisited: The Relationship Between Upper Echelon Diversity, the Adoption of Diversity Practices, and Organizational Performance
(2007-01-15)Using data from 260 U.S. organizations, we found partial support for our hypotheses that demographic diversity of senior management would be positively associated with the diversity of the workforce, adoption of diversity ... -
Upward Influence in Organizations: Test of A Model
(1990-10-01)A causal model of upward influence in organizations was proposed and tested on a sample of staff nurses and their supervisors in a hospital setting. LISREL results demonstrated that the proposed model fit the data well, ... -
Using Estimates of Income and Substitution Parameters to Predict the Work Incentive Effects of Various Income Maintenance Programs: A Brief Exposition and Partial Survey of the Empirical Literature
(1973-06-01)[Excerpt] In this paper we have set down a moderately rigorous exposition of the use of conventional economic analysis for the purpose of estimating the work (dis)incentives resulting from the institution of various income ... -
Using High Stakes Tests to Raise Achievement
(2001-04-01)“Educational reformers and most of the American public think that teachers ask too little of their pupils. These low expectations, they believe, result in watered-down curricula and a tolerance of mediocre teaching and ... -
Using Ownership as an Incentive: Does the "Too Many Chiefs" Rule Apply in Initial Public Offering Firms?
(1996-02-01)Agency theory is used to study the effectiveness of ownership proliferation throughout entrepreneurial organizations. Hypotheses are developed to understand the effect of CEO, top management, and all employee ownership on ... -
Using Ownership as an Incentive: Does the "Too Many Chiefs" Rule Apply in Entrepreneurial Firms?
(1996-09-01)Agency theory is used to develop hypotheses regarding the effects of ownership proliferation on firm performance. We examine the effects of CEO ownership, executive team ownership, and all employee ownership, in addition ... -
Using Performance Measurement to Evaluate Strategic Human Resource Management Decisions: Kodak's Experience With Profit Sharing
(1992-04-01)[Excerpt] Profit-sharing is frequently used to link employee performance and labor costs to the profitability of organizations. It represents a significant investment. Yet, 'managers' decisions regarding such human resource ... -
Utility Analysis for Decisions in Human Resource Management
(1988-12-30)[Excerpt] This chapter will discuss utility analysis (VA), which attempts to answer such questions by focusing on decisions about human resources. Utility analysis refers to the process that describes, predicts and/or ... -
Utility Analysis for Multiple Selection Devices and Multiple Outcomes
(1995-06-01)Traditional utility analysis only calculates the value of a given selection procedure over random selection. This assumption is not only an inaccurate representation of staffing policy but leads to overestimates of a ... -
Utility Analysis: A New Perspective on Human Resource Management Decision Making
(1987-09-01)[Excerpt] What do Human Resource Management (HRM) decisions contribute to organizational objectives? Are the organizational investments in HRM programs (such as pay for knowledge, enhanced employee benefits, training, ...
