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Browsing Center for Advanced Human Resource Studies (CAHRS) by Title
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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 ... -
How Does Leadership Structure Affect the Bottom Line?
(2017-01-01)Key Findings: Investment in High-commitment HR practices lead to key employee-based outcomes. When companies invest in employees with a system of high-commitment HR practices (see examples of these practices below) they ... -
How Does Unfavorable Information Impact Job Seekers’ Organizational Attraction?
(2008-09-01)Prior research has been inconclusive regarding the effects of unfavorable information on job search outcomes, particularly during the initial stage of job search and recruitment. In this study, we investigated the effects ... -
How High Performance Human Resource Practices and Workforce Unionization Affect Managerial Pay
(2000-11-01)Using data from a nationally representative sample of telecommunications establishments, this study finds that HR practices and workforce unionization influence managerial pay levels and the ratio of manager-to-worker pay. ... -
How Long Do the Benefits of Training Last? Evidence of Long Term Effects Across Current and Previous Employers, Education Levels, Test Scores, and Occupations
(1996-11-01)This paper uses NLSY data from 1979-1993 to estimate training's effect on one year wage growth. Year-by-year training histories are constructed which allow the returns to training received at both current and previous ... -
How New Venture Initial Public Offerings Benefit from International Operations: A Study of Human Resource Value
(1998-11-22)When internationalization goes beyond simply having international sales to having international operations, organizations can benefit from diversity of ideas and knowledge. Our study focuses on a special class of companies ... -
How Perceptions of One’s Organization Can Affect Perceptions of the Self: Membership in a Stable Organization Can Sustain Individuals’ Sense of Control
(2019-10-01)[Excerpt] Organizations have a strong stake in their employees’ sense of self-efficacy; that is, in their subjective sense of self-control and their capacity to act effectively and achieve desired outcomes in their personal ... -
How Troublesome are Stereotypes in International Business?
(1995-01-01)Substantial concern has been raised in international business writing that national stereotypes bias perception of employees, customers, and others. That concern is certainly supported by findings in person perception ... -
How Working is Defined: Structure and Stability
(1994-08-01)[Excerpt] Multidimensional scaling of statements that identify when individuals consider an activity in which one is engaged to be working was conducted on representative samples of the employed labor forces in Belgium, ... -
HR and the Implementation of High-Performance Work Practices: Tactics That Work
(2019-03-01)[Excerpt] Studies consistently show that bundles of High Performance Work Practices (HPWPs) can and often do contribute to the achievement of a number of positive organizational outcomes including higher productivity, ... -
HR Career Development in the Face of HR Transformation
(2019-12)[Excerpt] As HR transformation continues, many of the foundational experiences in a traditional HR career path are either no longer needed or look very different today. Transformation often takes the form of advancements ... -
HR Information Systems: Exploiting the Full Potential
(1996-01-01)[Excerpt] Human resource management has always faced a fundamental paradox: Top managers in any company will readily agree that the people are the keys to success, but few believe they know whether their people are well ... -
HR Metrics and Strategy
(1997-09-01)[Excerpt] The idea that an organization's people represent a key strategic resource is widely accepted. The business press is filled with examples of top executives proclaiming how important it is to engage people's minds ...
