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Leading from a Distance: Advancements in Virtual Leadership Research
(2017-01-01)Although leadership has long been recognized as critical in virtual environments, observers have noted that a surprisingly small number of studies have focused on virtual leadership. In the current chapter we examine what ... -
Learning From Clerical Unions: Two Cases of Organizing Success
(1989-04-01)This paper summarizes two successful clerical organizing campaigns. The first case describes the District 65 campaign to gain representation rights and contract protection for the clerical employees of Columbia University. ... -
Legal Protection of Workers’ Human Rights: Regulatory Changes and Challenges in the United States
(2010-01-01)[Excerpt] In a 2002 study, the US Government Accountability Office reported that more than 32 million workers in the United States lack protection of the right to organise and to bargain collectively. But since then, the ... -
Legally Defensible vs. Organizationally Sensible: Avoiding Legal-Centric Employment Decision Making
(2002-09-24)Managers and human resource professionals express grave concern about the increasing influence that the law and lawyers are having on their ability to manage employees effectively. Blame is typically placed on growing ... -
Les Relations Industrielles Mexicaines et la Democratic Dans le Context de l'ALENA [Mexican Industrial Relations and Democracy under NAFTA]
(1994-01-01)Le Mexique est presentement en train de vivre une importante transition, qu'il s'agisse de son modele de developpement economique ou de son systeme politique. Sur le plan economique, le Mexique est passe d'un modele ... -
Level-of-Aspiration Theory and Initial Stance in Bargaining
(1986-09-01)This research focuses on the effect of initial stance in bargaining. Following level-of-aspiration theory, the research examines whether the pattern of early concession making modifies the impact of tough vs. soft initial ... -
Levels of Abstraction in Legal Thinking
(2018-01-01)[Excerpt] This article applies the concept of levels of abstraction to legal thinking. Perhaps the most important use of the concept is to constrain judicial lawmaking in a principled way. Level of abstraction ... -
Leveraging Health Capital at the Workplace: An Examination of Health Reporting Behavior among Latino Immigrant Restaurant Workers in the United States
(2012-01-01)This article examines the choices made by a sample of Latino immigrant restaurant workers in regard to their health management, particularly in response to illness and injury. I draw on 33 interviews with kitchen staff ... -
Lighting the Spark: COMET Program Mobilizes the Ranks for Construction Organizing
(1995-01-01)This article describes the COMET (Construction Organizing Membership Education Training) program. Faced with declining membership and market share and an erosion of bargaining strength and political influence, building ... -
Liking the Same Things, but Doing Things Differently: Outcome Versus Compatibility in Partner Preferences for Joint Tasks
(2011-10-01)We propose a distinction between two types of interpersonal compatibility in determining partner preferences for joint tasks: outcome compatibility and strategic compatibility. We argue that these two types of compatibility ... -
Line and HR Executives’ Perceptions of HR Effectiveness in Firms in the People’s Republic of China
(1998-12-01)This paper examines the differences in perceptions of the importance and effectiveness of HR practices in firms operating in the People's Republic of China. The major finding is that while there are no significant differences ... -
Linkages Between Industrialization Strategies and Industrial Relations/Human Resource Policies: Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines, and India
(1996-07-01)The case studies of Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines, and India presented in this paper support the author's contention that a country's industrialization strategy for economic development profoundly influences its ... -
Living Large: The Powerful Overestimate Their Own Height
(2011-01-01)Three experiments tested the prediction that individuals’ experience of power influences perceptions of their own height. Power decreased judgments of an object’s height relative to the self (Study 1), made participants ... -
Living Standards, Labor Markets and Human Resources in Taiwan
(1992-01-01)[Excerpt] This paper has three general aims: to demonstrate that standards of living have continued to improve during Taiwan's recent economic growth, to analyze the causes of improvements in the 1980s and before, and to ... -
Locked Out but Holding Together in Ravenswood
(1999-05-01)The first in a two-part series that details the Steelworkers' victory at Ravenswood Aluminum - one of labor's biggest wins in the '90s. -
Logics of Action, Globalization, and Employment Relations Change in China, India, Malaysia, and the Philippines
(2002-04-01)A logic of action framework is developed in order to conceptualize and understand the impact of globalization on employment relations, as well as to predict the future trajectory of employment relations. The argument is ... -
Long-Term Economic Mobility and the Private Sector in Developing Countries: New Evidence
(2003-01-01)[Excerpt] Consistent with the mainstream view of economic growth as a factor promoting long-term economic mobility, we hypothesize that those economies in which economic growth has been most rapid are precisely the ones ... -
A Longer Shortlist Increases the Consideration of Female Candidates in Male-Dominant Domains
(Nature Research, 2021-06)Making it onto the shortlist is often a crucial early step toward professional advancement. For under-represented candidates, one barrier to making the shortlist is the prevalence of informal recruitment practices (for ... -
Looking Ahead
(1996-01-01)[Excerpt] The American entertainment industry and its system of labor-management relations is now at a crossroads. Its future will be determined to a great extent by emerging developments that could either hinder or ... -
Los Sindicatos Norteamericanos y el Tratado de Libre Comercio
(1994-08-01)[Excerpt] Una empresa transnational por si sola puede conducir una estrategia global, pero la elite del mundo de los negocios, los planificadores gubernamentales y los dirigientes politicos de una nation, aunque actiien ...
