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Browsing Center for Advanced Human Resource Studies (CAHRS) by Title
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Salaries, Salary Growth, and Promotions of Men and Women in a Large, Private Firm
(1987-02-18)[Excerpt] Salaries, promotions, and salary growth of men and women in a large, diversified firm were examined for the years 1980 through 1986. Consistent with other studies, men's average salary was higher than women's ... -
Scientific Illiteracy: Causes, Costs and Cures
(1989-06-13)[Excerpt] This article examines the causes of the learning deficits in science, math and technology, evaluates their social costs and then recommends policy measures for remedying the problems identified. Following the ... -
Secondary Education in the United States: What Can Others Learn from Our Mistakes?
(2001-03-01)Secondary schools are the least successful component of the U.S. education system. Students learn considerably less than in other industrialized nations and dropout rates are significantly higher. This paper provides an ... -
Selection Utility Analysis: A Review and Agenda for Future Research
(1988-01-21)[Exerpt] Whether they are line managers, human resource management staff, or organizational psychologists, managers of human resources must make decisions (e.g., hiring, placement, training, compensation, performance ... -
Separating the Developmental and Evaluative Performance Appraisal Uses
(1999-11-16)[Excerpt] We examine the effects of separating the evaluative and developmental components of PA, so it is important to define development and evaluation. Development is any effort concerned with enriching attitudes, ... -
Service Management and Employment Systems In U.S. and Indian Call Centers
(2005-07-01)In this chapter, we draw on a comparative international survey of management strategies and employment practices in U.S. and Indian customer contact call centers. We compare these practices across three types of centers: ... -
Should Personality Testing Be Part of the Hiring Process?
(2010-11-01)KEY FINDINGS · Job candidates who fail a personality test the first time often change their responses dramatically on the second test—even though adult personality is known to be generally stable and unlikely to change in ... -
Signaling in Secret: Pay-for-Performance and the Incentive and Sorting Effects of Pay Secrecy
(2014-03-01)Key Findings: Pay secrecy adversely impacts individual task performance because it weakens the perception that an increase in performance will be accompanied by increase in pay; Pay secrecy is associated with a decrease ... -
Signaling the Competencies of High School Students to Employers
(1994-08-01)[Excerpt] The fundamental cause of the low effort level of American students, parents, and voters in school elections is the absence of good signals of effort and accomplishment and the consequent lack of rewards for ... -
Signaling, Incentives and School Organization in France, The Netherlands, Britain and the United States: Lessons for Education Economics
(1994-10-01)[Excerpt] What causes differences in secondary school achievement across these four nations? The first two sections of the paper describe the achievement differences among the four countries and examine the proximate causes ... -
"So What?": HR Measurement as a Change Catalyst
(1995-08-01)[ Excerpt] There is unprecedented recognition among top managers throughout the world that people make the difference. Reading the professional business press, one would think that the battle for measuring the impact of ... -
Social and Situational Influences on the Performance Rating Process
(1991-11-12)"The effects of social and situational influences on the performance rating process has received relatively little attention by past research, yet merits increased attention. While there has been greater acknowledgment of ... -
Social Interaction and R & D Project Performance
(1992-05-01)[Excerpt] The purpose of this working paper is to present some initial findings from research currently being conducted on the effect of informal structures of communication and interaction on the product development ... -
Social Movements and HR: The Impact of #MeToo
(2018-12-01)[Excerpt] Considering the increased societal attention given to sexual harassment and assault, and the wide range of reactions to #MeToo, we wanted to know how companies are reacting, whether they are changing their policies ... -
SOTA 2004 Managing for Value(s) in a Commoditized World
(2004-07-01)Since its inception in 1995, Human Resource Planning Society’s State of the Art/Practice study has become an important way that the Society seeks to generate and disseminate information critical to effective HR strategy ... -
"Staffing Planning at COMPUTERCO: A Personal Computer Analysis"
(1991-04-01)[Excerpt] This case study is used for student and executive development. It is intended to be used with the computer program EXTMOY, which is described in an accompanying Center for Advanced Human Resource Studies working ... -
Starting Off on the Right Foot: Take Proactive Measures to Enhance Project Teams' Performance
(2012-03-01)Key Findings • The period between a project’s initiation and the project team’s first meeting is a crucial time that can significantly affect the team’s success • Team leaders can use this time effectively to lay the ... -
Starting Salary Differences Between Women and Men: Organization-Level Findings and an Analysis of Current Policy Options
(1993-05-01)This study examined the starting salaries paid by over 250 employers to 2,800 university graduates. Of the overall female-male salary difference of $4,396, the majority, or $3,175 (72%), occurred between employers; $1,221 ... -
Strategic and Administrative Human Resource Management (HRM): A Study of HRM Reporting in Entrepreneurial Firms
(1998-09-22)This paper reports the results of an exploratory study examining firm characteristics associated with choosing an administrative or strategic approach to HRM. Strategic HRM is defined as having a senior HRM executive who ... -
Strategic Compensation: Does Business Strategy Influence Compensation in High-Technology Firms?
(2003-01-01)This study examined whether a firm's business strategy influences the firm's compensation systems in high-technology firms. For the firm strategy variable, we used innovation strategy, which is one of the most critical ...
