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Browsing Center for Advanced Human Resource Studies (CAHRS) by Title
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Validation of Expert Systems: Personal Choice Expert -- A Flexible Employee Benefit System
(1992-07-10)A method for validating expert systems, based on psychological validation literature and Turing's "imitation game," is applied to a flexible benefits expert system. Expert system validation entails determining if a difference ... -
Validity of the Dimensions of the Pay Satisfaction Questionnaire: Implications for Research and Practice
(1992-04-01)Pay satisfaction has long been a topic of interest to researchers and practitioners. However, only in the past several years have researchers began to realize that pay satisfaction is a multidimensional construct. Heneman ... -
Valuing Employees: A Success Strategy for Fast Growth Firms and Fast Paced Individuals
(1997-02-01)This research considers the effect of pace on employee and firm performance. Population ecology and protection motivation theory suggest that to achieve success in a fast paced environment, companies should create an ... -
Variability Within Organizations: Implications for Strategic Human Resource Management
(2007-01-01)[Excerpt] Strategic human resource management refers to the pattern of planned human resource deployments and activities intended to enable an organization to achieve its goals (Wright & McMahan, 1992). It involves all of ... -
Virtual HR Departments: Getting Out of the Middle
(2001-03-01)In this chapter, we explore the notion of virtual HR departments: a network-based organization built on partnerships and mediated by information technologies in order to be simultaneously strategic, flexible, cost-efficient, ... -
Virtual Leadership: Required Competencies for Effective Leaders
(2010-01-01)There are countless books, articles, and resources available which attempt to identify the competencies and qualities of effective leaders. Traditionally, leaders have been at the center of a community, be it work, church, ... -
Virtual Teams: Work/Life Challenges - Keeping Remote Employees Engaged
(2010-01-01)Remotely located employees are quickly becoming a norm in the modern workplace in response to evidence that telecommuters save on costs and produce more efficiently. There are many intangible benefits also felt with the ... -
Vocational and Academic Education in High School: Complements or Substitutes
(1988-08-24)[Excerpt] A number of blue ribbon-panels have called for increases in the number academic courses required for graduation from high school and for lengthening the school day and the school year. Most states have adopted ... -
Vocational Education and At-Risk Youth in the United States
(1995-08-01)[Excerpt] Educationally disadvantaged youth in the United States have great difficulty finding steady jobs providing real training and advancement opportunities. In October 1994 only 43 percent of the young people who had ... -
Vocational Education For At-Risk Youth: How Can It Be Made More Effective?
(1988-08-24)[Excerpt] Minority youth and non-minority youth from economically disadvantaged backgrounds have great difficulty finding steady jobs that provide real training and advancement opportunities. In October 1986, only 32 percent ... -
Voluntary Turnover and Alternative Job Opportunities
(1989-01-06)Models of turnover specify important roles for both general labor market conditions and perceptions. There is consistent support for the role of general labor market conditions, but evidence on labor market perceptions is ... -
Voluntary Turnover and Job Performance: Curvilinearity and the Moderating Influences of Salary Growth and Promotions
(1997-02-01)[Excerpt] The relationship between job performance and voluntary employee turnover was investigated for 5,143 exempt employees in a single firm. As hypothesized, support was found for E. F Jackofsky's (1984) curvilinear ... -
Voluntary Turnover and Job Performance: Curvilinearity and the Moderating Influences of Salary Growth, Promotions, and Labor Demand
(1995-08-01)In this study we investigated the relation between job performance and voluntary employee turnover for 5,143 exempt employees in a single firm in the petroleum industry. As hypothesized, we found support for Jackofsky's ... -
Voluntary Turnover, Job Performance, Salary Growth, and Labor Market Conditions
(1990-06-01)[Excerpt] The importance of employee turnover control depends on many factors, including the relative supply of replacements in either the internal or external labor market, the amount of training invested in the employee, ... -
Wall Street Likes its Women: An Examination of Women in the Top Management Teams of Initial Public Offerings
(1999-04-01)[Excerpt] As part of an overall research project exploring the determinants of initial public offering (IPO) firm success, I examine the effect of having women on the top management teams of IPO firms on the organizations’ ... -
What are the Effects of Work Restructuring on Employee Well-Being and Firm Performance? Evidence from Telecommunications Services
(1995-05-20)The purpose of this study was to assess whether there are benefits to employees and firms associated with new forms of work organization and human resource and industrial relations practices. I examine a series of interrelated ... -
What Is Strategic Competence and Does It Matter? Exposition of the Concept and a Research Agenda
(2006-10-01)Drawing on a range of theoretical and empirical insights from strategic management and the cognitive and organizational sciences, we argue that strategic competence constitutes the ability of organizations and the individuals ... -
What is the Practical Relevance of Dispositional Effects on Job Satisfaction?
(1990-12-01)A review of research on dispositional effects on job satisfaction reveals two potential practical implications. First, it has been suggested that personnel programs designed to increase satisfaction levels may not have ... -
What Should Be the Federal Role In Supporting And/Or Shaping Development Of State Accountability Systems For Secondary School Achievement?
(2002-06-01)In the 1960s U.S. participation rates in secondary education were the highest in the world. This is no longer true. According to the OECD (Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development) data…enrollment rates of 16 ... -
What We Know About Employer-Provided Training: A Review of Literature
(1996-07-01)While the importance of on-the-job training is recognized by everyone, it is a phenomenon that is very difficult to study. Most training is informal and hard to measure and its effects on productivity are even more difficult ...
