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Bottom-Up Organizing: HERE in New Haven & Boston
(1986-04-01)[Excerpt] HERE is a union in the process of change. After decades of cooperative relations with management, the union's national leaders were rudely awakened when the major hotel chains jumped on the union-busting bandwagon ... -
The Role of Corporate HR Funcitons in MNCs: The Interplay Between Corporate, Regional/National and Plant Level
(2005-03-01)The HR literature has been abundant in providing typologies of the roles of HR professionals in their organisation. These typologies are largely related to the changing nature of HRM over time, and the context in which ... -
HRM and Performance: What’s Next?
(2005-07-22)The last decade of empirical research on the added value of human resource management (HRM), also known as the HRM and Performance debate, demonstrates evidence that ‘HRM does matter’ (Huselid, 1995; Guest, Michie, Conway ... -
Human Resource Function Competencies in European Companies
(2005-01-01)This paper presents an overview of recent empirical research on human resource competencies in Europe. The data were collected in 2002 in the global Human Resource Competence Study, an initiative of the University of ... -
Assault on Workers’ Rights
(1994-01-01)The cases in this report describe employers' blatant contempt for the rights of workers to voice their opinions in the workplace. Obsessed with retaining unilateral and total authority over their employees, the owners of ... -
Free Speech and Freedom of Association: Finding the Balance
(2013-06-01)[Excerpt] The fundamental right to freedom of association guarantees that workers are able to form and join trade unions free from any interference from employers and governments. This basic principle has been applied ... -
Measurement Error in Research on Human Resources and Firm Performance: Additional Data and Suggestions for Future Research
(2000-11-01)Gerhart and colleagues and Huselid and Becker recently debated the presence and implications of measurement error in measures of human resource practices. This paper presents data from three more studies, one of large ... -
Recognizing Risk in Human Capital Investments: A Real Options Approach to Strategic Human Resource Management
(2000-11-01)An issue that has not yet been explored in the field of strategic human resource management (SHRM) is that of managing the ‘risks’ involved in human capital management of the firm. We address this issue using the real ... -
NET WORKING: Work Patterns and Workforce Policies for the New Media Industry
(2000-11-01)This report, based on a study of a group of highly accomplished professionals in New York City, is one of the first to take up labor market issues in the new media industry. It describes the challenges faced by professionals ...
