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Ethnic Democracy and Its Ambiguities: The Case of the Needle Trade Unions
Korman, Gerd (1986-06-01)[Excerpt] During the years between World War I and World War II the conduct among well-known Jewish labor leaders seems to have foreshadowed events in the history of America’s nationality following the tumult of the 1960’s. ... -
Evaluation Research and National Social Policy: An Academic Practitioner's Perspective
Ehrenberg, Ronald G. (1984-01-01)[Excerpt] Society has limited resources and many competing uses for them. I therefore take it as being an almost obvious proposition that at any point in time policy makers should strive to maximize the social benefits ... -
Examining Strategic Fit and Misfit in the Management of Knowledge Workers
Collins, Christopher J.; Kehoe, Rebecca (2017-03-01)This study advances research on strategic human resource management by examining whether better firm performance depends on the alignment between an organization’s human resources (HR) system and its innovation strategy. ... -
Examining the Link Between Diversity and Firm Performance: The Effects of Diversity Reputation and Leader Racial Diversity
Roberson, Quinetta M.; Park, Hyeon Jeong (2006-04-01)Given the scarcity of empirical research on the impact of diversity on organizational performance, we used longitudinal data for 100 firms to test hypotheses related to the effects of diversity reputation and leader racial ... -
Excerpts from <i>Bottom-Line Management</i>
Fields, Gary S. (2007-05-01)[Excerpt] You’re reading this book because you want to do good and you want to do well in your organization. In this book, I will help you do both. I will help you if you are (or aim to be) a senior manager in an organization ... -
Execution: the Critical “What’s Next?” in Strategic Human Resource Management
Wright, Patrick M.; Dyer, Lee; Takla, Michael G. (1999-07-01)The Human Resource Planning Society’s 1999 State of the Art/Practice (SOTA/P) study was conducted by a virtual team of researchers who interviewed and surveyed 232 human resource and line executives, consultants, and ... -
Executive Compensation in American Unions
Hallock, Kevin F.; Klein, Felice (2009-07-06)[Excerpt] Studying compensation in the non-profit sector is difficult. In non-profit organizations, it is not always clear what the objectives of the organization are and, therefore, perhaps even more difficult to consider ... -
Executive Compensation in Municipalities
Goldstein, Gerald S.; Ehrenberg, Ronald G. (1976-07-01)[Excerpt] In this paper we are concerned with the salaries of three important municipal officials; city-managers, police chiefs, and fire chiefs. We present a model that relates the salaries of these officials to a set of ... -
Existing Knowledge, Knowledge Creation Capability, and the Rate of New Product Introduction in High-Technology Firms
Smith, Ken G.; Collins, Christopher J.; C, Kev (Academy of Management, 2005-04)A field study of top management teams and knowledge workers from 72 technology firms demonstrated that the rate of new product and service introduction was a function of organization members' ability to combine and exchange ... -
Expected Changes in the Workforce and Implications for Labor Markets
Levine, Phillip B.; Mitchell, Olivia S. (1991-06-01)[Excerpt] While many have written about possible effects of the baby boom on the U.S. economy, few have recognized that this demographic transition provides analysts with a unique and valuable opportunity to investigate ... -
Experimentation and Decentralization in China’s Labor Relations
Friedman, Eli D.; Kuruvilla, Sarosh (2015-02-01)In this introduction to the special issue ‘Changing work, labour and employment relations in China’, we argue that China is taking an experimental and decentralized approach to the development of new labor relations ... -
Expertise and Excellence
Bishop, John H. (1995-06-01)[Excerpt] Most of one's educational career is spent learning generic skills such as reading, writing and arithmetic that are in abundant supply. Success in developing these skills does not, however, make one a highly ... -
Explaining the Health Information Technology Paradox
Avgar, Ariel C.; Litwin, Adam Seth (2014-01-01)Excerpt] The substantial gap between the promise inherent in upgrading information systems in health care and the documented reality has baffled health care scholars. Why is a technology so clearly capable of creating ... -
Explaining Wage Inequality in Telecommunications Services: Customer Segmentation, Human Resource Practices, and Union Decline
Batt, Rosemary (2001-01-01)This study examines factors related to within-occupation wage inequality among service and sales workers in the telecommunications industry. The author draws on a 1998 survey of a nationally representative sample of 354 ... -
Exploring Applicant Pool Quantity and Quality: The Effects of Early Recruitment Practice Strategies, Corporate Advertising, and Firm Reputation
Collins, Christopher J.; Han, Jian (2004-09-01)Drawing on marketing and recruitment theory, we examined relationships between early recruitment practices, organizational factors, and organization-level recruitment outcomes, predicting that low-involvement recruitment ... -
Exploring the Trust Gap: Dimensions and Predictors of Trust Among Labor and Management Representatives
Currall, Steven C.; Judge, Timothy A. (1992-02-01)Existing literature on interpersonal trust in work relationships has largely focused on trust as an independent variable. This study examined trust as a dependent variable by investigating its dimensions and predictors. ... -
Extending Social Learning Theories to Collectivist Cultures: The Effect of Behavior Modeling Training, Service Orientation and Language Skills on Service Skills and Behaviors
Najjar, Michelle M.; Boudreau, John W. (1996-01-01)Although previous research has suggested that training approaches using behavior modeling yield better results than lecture-based approaches, these assumptions have not been tested in collectivist cultures. This study ... -
Extending the Human Resource Architecture: Relational Archetypes and Value Creation
Kang, Sung-Choon; Morris, Shad S.; Snell, Scott A. (2003-05-01)Theories of knowledge-based competition focus on internal resources as the source of value creation. The HR architecture (Lepak & Snell, 1999) brought human resource management directly into this forum by developing a model ... -
External Pressure and Local Mobilization: Transnational Activism and the Emergence of the Chinese Labor Movement
Friedman, Eli D. (2009-01-01)[Excerpt] This article elucidates connections between two strategies of transnational social movements—external pressure and local mobilization—and two potential outcomes—paternalism and psychological empowerment. Application ... -
EXTMOV: A Computer Spreadsheet Program For Analyzing Staffing Costs and Benefits
Boudreau, John W. (1991-04-01)[Excerpt] EXTMOV is a LOTUS 1-2-3 spreadsheet program specially designed to assist those managing their human resources. The program allows you to construct a simulation of your workforce that can depict the dollar-valued ...