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Browsing Center for Advanced Human Resource Studies (CAHRS) by Title
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Identify Critical Factors to Turn Workforce Satisfaction into Bottom-Line Results
(2010-04-01)KEY FINDINGS · While practitioners and researchers assume that higher employee satisfaction equals higher sales and profits, analysis shows that there is no direct link between the two. · Between the beginning point of ... -
Immigration and the U.S. Labor Market: Public Policy Gone Awry
(1992-10-30)[Excerpt] One of the least discussed, yet most significant influences upon contemporary economic affairs in the United States, has been the post-1965 revival of mass immigration. -
Impact of Information Technology on Employee Attitudes: A Longitudinal Field Study
(1997-05-01)This longitudinal study examined the impact of an information technology system on the job and employee attitudes in a parts distribution center for a Fortune 500 company. Data were collected prior to, during, and following ... -
Impacts of School Organization and Signaling on Incentives to Learn in France, the Netherlands, England, Scotland and the United States
(1993-10-14)[Excerpt] Despite similar cultural roots and standards of living, the secondary education systems of France, the Netherlands, England, Scotland and the United States produce remarkably different levels of achievement in ... -
Impacts of Tougher Graduation Requirements on Course Selection and Learning in High School and Post High School Experiences of Vocational Students
(2003-04-01)[Excerpt] The paper began with an examination of the effects of tougher graduation requirements on course taking patterns in high school. High school graduation tests reduced the number of occupational vocational courses ... -
Improving Education: How Large are the Benefits? How can it be Done Efficiently?
(1995-02-02)[Excerpt] The Problem: The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) reports that 92 percent of high school seniors cannot "integrate specialized scientific information" and do not have "the capacity to apply ... -
Improving Job-Worker Matching in the US Labor Market: What is the Role of the Employment Service?
(1992-10-30)[Excerpt] Educational and political leaders are calling for improvements in the signalling and certification of academic and occupational skills to the labor market. The Secretary's Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills ... -
Improving Technology-Based Change Processes Through Measurement and Communication: A Case Study on Indus International
(1997-12-01)This case study describes an e-mail based employee survey that was developed at Indus International to help the company as it underwent a large-scale organizational change. In February of 1996 the company went public, and ... -
In The Trenches At The Talent Wars: An Examination Of Competitive Interaction For Human Resources In The Software Industry
(2003-02-01)In this study, I attempted to extend strategic human resource management theory by developing and testing a model of inter-firm competition for human resources. Using the phenomenon of talent raiding as a vehicle to test ... -
In the Trenches at the Talent Wars: Competitive Interaction for Scarce Human Resources - A Qualitative Study
(2000-11-01)The purpose of this paper is to examine how firms are competing for scarce human resources in the talent wars. First, the paper makes the distinction between responding to labor shortages with investments in recruiting and ... -
In There or Up Front? : An Introduction to Bottom-Line Human Resource Management
(2002-04-01)This essay explains to managers and academics a new approach to human resource management, what I call “Bottom-Line Human Resource Management.” Bottom-line human resource management starts by positing clear organizational ... -
Incentives for Learning: Why American High School Students Compare so Poorly to Their Counterparts Overseas
(1989-01-12)[Excerpt] The scientific and mathematical competence of American high school students is generally recognized to be very low. The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) reports that only 7.5 percent of 17 year ... -
Incentives To Study and the Organization of Secondary Instruction
(1993-09-01)[Excerpt] The Problem: The scientific and mathematical competence of American high school students is generally recognized to be low. The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) reports that 92 percent of high ... -
Individual Consequences of Monitoring Under Gainsharing: Expanding Agency Theory Predictions
(1995-09-01)Agency theory suggests that gainsharing produces changes in monitoring within teams, however, the implications of monitoring on individual behavior have not yet been examined. This research expands agency theory by exploring ... -
Individual-Level Determinants of the Propensity to Shirk
(1990-12-01)Employee shirking, where workers give less than full effort on the job, has typically been investigated as a construct subject to group and organization-level influences. Neglected are individual differences that might ... -
Information Externalities and the Social Payoff to Academic Achievement
(1987-03-18)The thesis of this paper is that wage rates and earnings give misleading signals to public and private decision makers regarding the social benefits of certain kinds of education and training (E&T) investments. The misleading ... -
Initial Career and Work Meanings in Seven European Countries
(1993-08-01)The study explores the initial careers of two target groups of youngsters in seven European countries. Career patterns are constructed through cluster analysis on data gathered from the youngsters through a retrospective ... -
Initial Organizational Images and Recruitment: A Within-Subjects Investigation of the Factors Affecting Job Choices
(2001-01-01)[Excerpt] The purpose of this study was to examine the dimensions, influenceability, and consequences of applicants’ images of prospective employers early in the recruitment and job search process. Specifically, we examined ... -
Innovations and Trends in Pension Plan Coverage, Pension Type and Plan Design
(1992-05-01)In this paper, we outline recent trends in employer pension pIan structure in the United States, focusing on plan coverage, plan type and pension plan design. We then identify the key factors that we believe will shape ... -
Intellectual Capital Architectures and Bilateral Learning: A Framework For Human Resource Management
(2005-08-01)Both researchers and managers are increasingly interested in how firms can pursue bilateral learning; that is, simultaneously exploring new knowledge domains while exploiting current ones (cf., March, 1991). To address ...
