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Back to Basics for the Labor Movement
(1981-09-01)[Excerpt] Today, however, most union leaders are hardly sanguine about the future. Companies are escalating their anti-union offensive. Technological change, growth in the service sectors and high tech sectors of the ... -
Back to the Future: A Century of Compensation
(1999-07-01)What were the hot compensation issues and practices over the past century? Does history offer any lessons that may inform our compensation decisions in the future? To answer these questions, we reviewed newspapers and ... -
Balanced and Imbalanced Societal Norms About Working: A Comparison of Four National Labor Markets at Two Time Points
(1993-10-01)Two normative orientations: work as an obligation/duty versus work as an entitlement/right are compared among representative samples from the American, German, Belgian, and Japanese labor force exploring four domains: "Work ... -
Bargaining and Influence in Conflict Situations
(1995-01-01)[Excerpt] This chapter examines bargaining as an influence process through which actors attempt to resolve a social conflict. Conflict occurs when two or more interdependent actors have incompatible preferences and perceive ... -
Bargaining Toughness: A Qualification of Level-of-Aspiration and Reciprocity Hypotheses
(1980-01-01)This research examined the interaction of initial bargaining stance and later concession strategy in dyadic bargaining. Experimental procedures pitted subjects against a programmed opponent and manipulated three variables: ... -
Barriers to Union Organizing
(1992-12-09)[Excerpt] The current environment presents dramatic challenges for the American labor movement. Structural change in the economy has meant job loss in traditionally unionized sectors such as heavy manufacturing, and job ... -
Beginning to Unlock the Black Box in the HR Firm Performance Relationship: The Impact of HR Practices on Employee Attitudes and Employee Outcomes
(2001-09-01)Theoretical models in strategic human resource management research commonly include employee attitudes and behaviors as key mediating links between human resource practices and firm performance. However, almost all empirical ... -
Being Trusted: How Team Generational Age Diversity Promotes and Undermines Trust in Cross-Boundary Relationships
(2015-01-01)We examine how demographic context influences the trust that boundary spanners experience in their dyadic relationships with clients. Because of the salience of age as a demographic characteristic as well as the increasing ... -
Between Support and Shame: The Impacts of Workplace Violations for Immigrant Families
(2015-01-01)Purpose - This study examines the conditions that lead to workplace violations for low-wage immigrant workers, and how family life shapes their decision to speak up. I also highlight how both employer abuse and the claims ... -
Beyond Baby-Splitting: Arbitrator Decision-Making Patterns in Employment Cases
(2013-01-01)That arbitrators tend to “split the baby” by issuing compromise awards is amongst the hoariest of clichés in the dispute resolution field. While the idea of arbitrators as baby-splitters has been challenged by commentators ... -
Beyond Cost-per-Hire and Time to Fill: Supply-Chain Measurement for Staffing
(2001-10-01)Identifying and acquiring talent is one of the most important processes in human resource management. It is a key element in being competitive in a knowledge driven, talent constrained economy. In addition, it is often the ... -
Beyond Labor's Brawl: Strategic Conundrums Await
(2008-03-01)[Excerpt] The stark reality of the continuing decline of U.S. unions has precipitated an intense feud among labor's leaders, with thoughtful progressives lined up on opposite sides of the schism. It seems increasingly ... -
Beyond National “Varieties”: Public-Service Contracting in Comparative Perspective
(2010-01-01)[Excerpt] In this chapter, we will explore how work in contracted-out public services, including that in the voluntary sector, maps onto the broader international political economy of work. Comparative scholars often write ... -
Beyond the Organizing Model: The Transformation Process in Local Unions
(1998-01-01)[Excerpt] The ideological foundations of traditional U.S. trade unionism have been called into question by world and domestic events. The post-World War II labor movement, founded on a social truce with capital and the ... -
Bias in White: A Longitudinal Natural Experiment Measuring Changes in Discrimination
(2012-01-01)Many professions are plagued by disparities in service delivery. Racial disparities in policing, mortgage lending, and healthcare are some notable examples. Because disparities can result from a myriad of mechanisms, ... -
Big Labor Regains its Muscle: Social Responsibility Leads to Greater Political Clout
(1989-01-01)[Excerpt] The political fortunes of organized labor have improved remarkably in the past two years. Following a decade of disappointments in Congress and at the polls, the AFL-CIO has successfully orchestrated a return to ... -
Bilateral Deterrence and Conflict Spiral: A Theoretical Analysis
(1986-01-01)The major question addressed by this paper is: When each actor in a conflict or bargaining relationship has a power capability, how does the level of power capability in the relationship affect the likelihood of actors ... -
Biography and Social History: An Intimate Relationship
(2004-11-01)Biography has been considered as outside the discipline of history by many historians. Since the chronological framework of the study is pre-deter-mined, given the subject's life, it has been argued, it does not meet the ... -
Black Youth Nonemployment: Duration and Job Search: Comment
(1986-01-01)[Excerpt] Holzer's paper has a number of attributes that I find very appealing. It focuses on an important topic and uses two different data bases to test the robustness of its findings. It uses alternative specifications ... -
Blood, Sweat, and Fear: Workers’ Rights in U.S. Meat and Poultry Plants
(2004-01-01)[Excerpt] This report covers workers’ rights in the U.S. meat and poultry industry in three broad areas of human rights concern: worker health and safety and related rights to compensation for workplace injuries, freedom ...
