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Browsing Center for Advanced Human Resource Studies (CAHRS) by Title
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Gainsharing and Mutual Monitoring: A Combined Agency-Procedural Justice Interpretation
(1993-04-27)This study examines the behavioral consequences of gainsharing using a combined theoretical framework that includes elements of agency and procedural justice theory. The hypothesis tested is that gainsharing as a collective ... -
Gainsharing in Managing and Compensating Human Resources
(1987-01-15)[Excerpt] There is one thing professors and professionals in industrial relations can be absolutely certain of: concepts and techniques recycle. Profit sharing and gainsharing are cases in point. Both possess long histories ... -
Gainsharing: A Critical Review and a Future Research Agenda
(1995-06-01)This paper provides a critical review of the extensive literature on gainsharing. It examines the reasons for the fast growth in these programs in recent years and the major prototypes used in the past. Different theoretical ... -
Gender Differences in Current and Starting Salaries: The Role of Performance, College Major, and Job Title
(1988-03-21)Starting and current salaries of 3,564 men and 1,053 women hired between 1976 and 1986 by a large, private firm were examined. Using a comprehensive model including year of hire, potential experience, education degree, ... -
Getting Past the “Entrepreneurial Growth Ceiling”: A Longitudinal Study of IPO Firm Growth Through Solution Driven Strategies
(1998-03-01)In this paper we introduce a concept that we call the Entrepreneurial Growth Ceiling (EGC). We develop arguments that new venture IPOs hit the EGC prior to their IPO, and the ceiling is part of the impetus for going public. ... -
Getting to Know You: Self-awareness Is Key for High-Performing, Adaptive Teams
(2010-09-01)KEY FINDINGS · Role identification behaviors, or information exchanges among team members regarding individuals’ roles within a team, are crucial to the development of a team’s self awareness. · If team members do not ... -
Give Them Some Slack - They're Trying to Change! The Benefits of Excess Cash, Excess Employees, and Increased Human Capital in the Context of Strategic Change
(2019-03-01)[Excerpt] Human resource strategists perennially struggle with the issue of staffing levels, especially the difficult task of determining the number of people required to meet their units’ business goals. Should they go ... -
Global Human Resource Metrics
(2003-03-01)[Excerpt] What is the logic underlying global human resources (HR) measurement in your organization? In your organization, do you measure the contribution of global HR programs to organizational performance? Do you know ... -
Global Talentship: Toward a Decision Science Connecting Talent to Global Strategic Success
(2002-09-15)It is widely accepted that global competitive advantage frequently requires managing such complex situations that traditional organization and job structures are simply insufficient. Increasingly, in order to create a ... -
Globalisation of HR at Function Level: Exploring the Issues Through International Recruitment, Selection and Assessment Processes
(2006-10-01)Much of the debate around convergence-divergence is based around comparative analysis of HR systems. However, we need now to combine these insights with work in the field of IHRM on firm-level motivations to optimise, ... -
Got Women? Hiring and Retaining Female Information Technology Professionals Through Effective Human Resource Marketing
(1998-11-28)The current pipeline for information technology (IT) professionals is dismal, with increasing jobs and decreasing applicants. We propose that one solution to this problem is encouraging women to pursue careers in IT. Today, ... -
Group Incentives and Pay Satisfaction: Understanding the Relationship Through an Identity Theory Perspective
(1993-10-01)The goal of this paper is to develop a conceptual model based on identity theory to specify the relationship between group incentives and pay satisfaction. Pay satisfaction, as currently measured, does not include items ... -
Harness the Power of Frontline Supervisors to Turn HR Policies into Performance Gains
(2010-01-01)Key Findings: • Frontline supervisors play a critical role in implementing HR policies by developing employees and managing performance. • Coaching counts—one-on-one feedback from frontline supervisors increases ... -
Health and Wellness Programs: Why Employees Don't Participate
(2019-04-01)[Excerpt] Eighty-five percent of large firms and 58 percent of small ones currently offer at least one program to promote health and wellness (H&W) among employees. Usually these have the twin goals of reducing companies’ ... -
Heterarchy: Asset Ambiguity, Organizational Innovation, and the Postsocialist Firm
(1996-08-01)[Excerpt] Each evening during their hunting season, the Naskapi Indians of the Labrador Peninsula determined where they would look for game on the next day's hunt by holding a caribou shoulder bone over the fire.1 Examining ... -
High Performance HR Practices And Customer Satisfaction: Employee Process Mechanisms
(2002-07-01)This research examined organizational commitment and customer focus as mediators between HR practices and customer satisfaction of seventy-one work units from twenty-five business units from a single firm in the food service ... -
High School Exit Examinations: When Do Learning Effects Generalize?
(2005-04-01)This paper reviews international and domestic evidence on the effects of three types of high school exit exam systems: voluntary curriculum-based external exit exams, universal curriculum-based external exit exam systems ... -
High-Wage Workers and High-Wage Firms
(1994-10-01)We study a longitudinal sample of over one million French workers and over 500,000 employing firms. Real total annual compensation per worker is decomposed into components related to observable characteristics, worker ... -
How Can Multinational Corporations Retain Their Employees in China?
(2006-05-12)To address the headache encountered by many multinational companies in China retention of their Chinese employees, this study first examined the current Chinese labor market, identifying the unique characteristics of the ... -
How do Leader Departures Affect Turnover Among Those Employees Left Behind?
(2017-06-01)[Excerpt] In large organizations, mid-level unit leaders regularly vacate their positions for a variety of reasons, including promotions, transfers, quits, and terminations. Certainly there are reasons to expect that these ...
