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Browsing Center for Advanced Human Resource Studies (CAHRS) by Title
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Job and Life Attitudes of Male Executives
(1993-10-01)Despite executives' important positions in organizations, their attitute have not received much research attention. In an attempt to remedy this deficiency, the present study tested a hypothesized model of executive attitudes ... -
Job Performance, Turnover and Wage Growth
(1988-01-21)The paper tests and finds strong support for the hypothesis that in the nonunion sector of the economy, turnover is negatively selective on a worker's job performance. At establishments with about 17 employees, a worker ... -
Job Satisfaction and Subjective Well-Being As Determinants of Job Adaptation
(1991-11-12)An important controversy in the literature on employee withdrawal/adaptation concerns whether job satisfaction predicts behaviors that are manifestations of this construct. Although the area has not lacked for empirical ... -
Job Satisfaction as a Reflection of Disposition: A Multiple Source Casual Analysis
(1990-10-01)Dispositional sources of job satisfaction have been the subject of recent research in the organizational sciences. Problems in much of this research, which limit the conclusions one can draw from the results, are discussed. ... -
Job Search Behavior of Employed Managers
(1993-09-01)Job search typically has been thought of as an antecedent to voluntary turnover or job choice behavior. This study extends the existing literature by proposing a model of the job search process and examining the job search ... -
Job Search Strategies and Labor Market Success
(1991-03-01)This study examines the relation between job search strategies and two measures of labor market success, starting salary and number of job offers received, in a sample of graduating MBAs. Controlling for applicant and ... -
Judgment and Choice in Personnel Selection
(1989-11-01)[Excerpt] Imagine that you have set out to buy a used car. You examine eight cars before making your choice, test driving some of them and rejecting others at first glance (due for example to excessive rust). A researcher ... -
Keeping Our Best: Econometric Analysis of Retention and Performance at Engineering Solutions
(2002-07-01)This study analyzes the retention and performance of 100 engineers who started work at “Engineering Solutions” in 1996, of whom 65 were still with the firm in 2002. The retention analysis shows that the firm retained ... -
Leading For The Bottom Line: A View Of Leadership In A Bottom-Line Context
(2006-03-01)This paper sets out to establish and describe a new approach to leadership called Bottom Line Leadership. The essence of Bottom Line Leadership is that a leader’s most critical responsibility is to clearly identify, ... -
Legally Defensible vs. Organizationally Sensible: Avoiding Legal-Centric Employment Decision Making
(2002-09-24)Managers and human resource professionals express grave concern about the increasing influence that the law and lawyers are having on their ability to manage employees effectively. Blame is typically placed on growing ... -
Line and HR Executives’ Perceptions of HR Effectiveness in Firms in the People’s Republic of China
(1998-12-01)This paper examines the differences in perceptions of the importance and effectiveness of HR practices in firms operating in the People's Republic of China. The major finding is that while there are no significant differences ... -
Managing Customer Services: Human Resource Practices, Turnover, and Sales Growth
(2000-06-29)This study examines the relationship between human resource practices, employee quit rates, and organizational performance by drawing on a unique nationally representative sample of 354 customer service and sales establishments ... -
Managing Human Assets in an Uncertain World: Applying Real Options Theory to HRM
(2004-03-01)While many authors have proposed a firm’s human resources as an asset that can provide value and competitive advantage, the SHRM field has tended to ignore the fact that assets have associated uncertainties and risks. The ... -
Managing Transformational Change: The Role of Human Resource Professionals
(1992-07-01)[Excerpt] Can the United States maintain its traditional position of economic leadership and one of the world's highest standards of living in the face of increasing global competition? Concerned observers cite the following ... -
Measurement and Dimensionality of Compensation Satisfaction in Law Enforcement
(1990-09-01)This research examined the dimensionality of carpensation satisfaction for the occupational area of law enforcanent by analyzing the factor structure of Henanan and SChwab's (1985) Pay Satisfaction Questionnaire (PSQ) . ... -
Measurement Error in Research on Human Resource Decisions and Firm Performance: How Much Error is There and How Does its Influence Effect Size Estimates?
(1998-12-01)Recent empirical research finds that the relationship between human resource (HR) decisions and firm performance is significant in both statistical and practical terms. However, the typical research design in this area ... -
Measurement Error in Research on Human Resources and Firm Performance: Additional Data and Suggestions for Future Research
(2000-11-01)Gerhart and colleagues and Huselid and Becker recently debated the presence and implications of measurement error in measures of human resource practices. This paper presents data from three more studies, one of large ... -
Measures of New Constructs or Old Ones? The Case of Organizational Commitment and Job Satisfaction
(1991-03-02)The construct validity of organizational commitment has recently been investigated in several studies. The authors of these studies have concluded that organizational commitment is a valid construct, sufficiently distinct ... -
Measuring Intellectual Capital: Learning from Financial History
(1996-09-01)[Excerpt] Emerging evidence from scientific studies and specific organizations suggests that how people are managed significantly affects organizational success, and that certain patterns of human resource activities are ... -
Measuring Organizational Performance in Strategic Human Resource Management: Looking Beyond the Lamppost
(1998-11-01)A major challenge for Strategic Human Resource Management research in the next decade will be to establish a clear, coherent and consistent construct for organizational performance. This paper describes the variety of ...
