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Corporate Social Responsibility at Gap: An Interview with Eva Sage-Gavin
(2006-08-17)Gap Inc. is one of the world's largest specialty retailers, with more than 3,000 stores and fiscal 2005 revenues of $16 billion. They operate four of the most recognized apparel brands in the world — Gap, Banana Republic, ... -
Cosmopolitans and Locals: Status Rivalries, Deference, and Knowledge in International Teams
(2003-09-18)Drawing on sociological role theory, this chapter introduces and explains the distinction between cosmopolitan and local role orientations as status categories in international teams. Qualitative data from a multi-method ... -
"Cost-Benefit" Analysis Applied to Personnel/Human Resource Management Decisions
(1990-09-01)[Excerpt] Every model for improving quality in manufacturing or service emphasizes the need to understand customer or client needs, measure achievements in terms of those needs, and use measurements to adjust processes so ... -
Cost-of-Living Adjustment Clauses in Union Contracts: A Summary of Results
(1983-07-01)Our paper provides an explanation why cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) provisions and their characteristics vary widely across U.S. industries. We develop models of optimal risk sharing between a firm and union to investigate ... -
Counterpoint: Reply to Orrenius and Zavodny
(2012-01-01)[Excerpt] On the fundamental conclusions, the positions argued by Pia Orrenius and Madeline Zavodny and my own are in essential agreement. The immigration policy of the United States is in dire need of changes. The public ... -
Counting the Global Aerospace Workforce
(2004-01-01)As researchers on MIT’s Labor Aerospace Research Agenda (LARA), we began our work with many questions. Are other nations—like the United States—facing a “demographic cliff” as their aerospace workforce’s age? What strategic ... -
Craft Entry for Minorities: The Case of Project JUSTICE
(1971-10-01)[Excerpt] Demonstrations in Chicago and Pittsburgh in 1969 focused national attention on the problem of the racial integration of the building trades. Many solutions to the problem have been suggested or tried, including ... -
Crafting a Class: The Trade Off Between Merit Scholarships and Enrolling Lower-Income Students
(2005-06-01)[Excerpt] It is well-known that test scores are correlated with students’ socio-economic backgrounds. Hence to the extent that colleges are successful in “buying” higher test score students, one should expect that their ... -
Crafting a Class: The Trade-Off Between Merit Scholarships and Enrolling Lower-Income Students
(2006-01-01)[Excerpt] It is well known that test scores are correlated with students’ socio-economic backgrounds. Hence, to the extent that colleges are successful in “buying” higher test-score students, one should expect that their ... -
Crafting A Human Resource Strategy To Foster Organizational Agility: A Case Study
(2000-07-01)A decade ago, the CEO of Albert Einstein Healthcare Network (AEHN), anticipating a tumultuous and largely unpredictable period in its industry, undertook to convert this organization from one that was basically stable and ... -
Creating a More Quit-Friendly National Workforce? Individual Layoff History and Voluntary Turnover
(2015-01-01)While Bureau of Labor Statistics data reveal that U.S. employers laid off over 33 million employees since 1994, virtually no research has addressed the behavior of layoff victims upon reemployment. In a first step, we ... -
The Creative Cliff Illusion
(National Academy of Sciences, 2020-08)Across eight studies, we tested whether people understand the time course of their own creativity. Prior literature finds that creativity tends to improve across an ideation session. Here we compared people’s beliefs against ... -
Creativity from Constraint? How Political Correctness Influences Creativity in Mixed-Sex Work Groups
(2014-08-18)Most group creativity research is premised on the assumption that creativity is unleashed by removing normative constraints. As work organizations become increasingly diverse in terms of gender, however, this assumption ... -
Cultural Capital: Challenges to New York State’s Competitive Advantages in the Arts and Entertainment Industry
(2009-01-01)This is a report on the findings of the Cornell University ILR planning process conducted with support of a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to investigate trends in the arts and entertainment industry in New York ... -
Cultural Influences on Cognitive Representations of Conflict: Interpretations of Conflict Episodes in the United States and Japan
(2001-01-01)This article integrates theory from the cognitive tradition in negotiation with theory on culture and examines cultural influences on cognitive representations of conflict. The authors predicted that although there may be ... -
Culture and Egocentric Perceptions of Fairness in Conflict and Negotiation
(2002-01-01)In this article, the authors advanced a cultural view of judgment biases in conflict and negotiation. The authors predicted that disputants’ self-serving biases of fairness would be more prevalent in individualistic cultures, ... -
Current Approaches to HR Strategies: Inside-Out vs. Outside-In
(2003-12-01)In an effort to determine the best practices with regard to Human Resource (HR) strategies, we conducted interviews with HR executives knowledgeable about their HR strategies from 20 companies, and gathered archival materials ... -
Current Issues and Future Directions in Simulation-Based Training
(2008-11-01)A number of emerging challenges including globalization, economic pressures, and the changing nature of work have combined to create a business environment that demands innovative, flexible training solutions. Simulations ... -
Current Issues and Future Directions in Simulation-Based Training in North America
(2008-01-01)A number of emerging challenges including globalization, economic pressures, and the changing nature of work have combined to create a business environment that demands innovative, flexible training solutions. Simulations ... -
Current Research on Industrial Relations Regulation, Bargaining Theory, Progressive Discipline, and Occupational Influences on Unionism
(1986-01-01)We are pleased to be able to present, in this third volume of the Advances in Industrial and Labor Relations series, some original, important, and in some cases provocative research on industrial relations regulation, ...
