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Browsing Center for Advanced Human Resource Studies (CAHRS) by Title
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Out-of-Pocket Costs and the Flexible Benefits Decision: Do Employees Make Effective Health Care Choices?
(1994-01-01)This study analyzes employees' ability to select health insurance benefits that fit their needs.The study analyzes both the actual choices and the implications of those choices for employees, measured as out-of-pocket costs ... -
Overeducation
(1993-01-01)According to manpower requirements economists, "overeducation" occurs when an individual has more schooling than is "required" by their job. Studies have found that men (but not women) who exceed the schooling norm for ... -
Partner or Guardian? HR’s Challenge in Balancing Value and Values
(2004-07-01)[Excerpt] Is HR at a crossroad? A number of signs seem to be pointing that way. Increasingly HR executives are faced with a critical decision: Will they continue on their journey to be business leaders, , with full sway ... -
Paving the Path to Performance: Inclusive Leadership Reduces Turnover in Diverse Work Groups
(2010-02-01)Key Findings: • Inclusive leaders—characterized by the high-quality relationships they form with their employees—can significantly reduce the high turnover costs seen in diverse work groups. • While it’s ... -
Pay for What Performance? Lessons From Firms Using the Role-Based Performance Scale
(1997-11-01)Companies strive for it; they spend incredible resources to achieve it, but in many cases, they fall short. Why is the relationship so important, why does it seem to be beyond the reach of so many organizations, and how ... -
Pay, Performance, and Participation
(1992-05-01)Our chapter identifies key dimensions on which organizations make employee compensation decisions and examines the emerging research evidence on the consequences of such decisions for attitudes, behaviors, and organization ... -
Peeling Back the Onion Competitive Advantage Through People: Test of a Causal Model
(2004-05-01)Proponents of the resource-based view (RBV) of the firm have identified human resource management (HRM) and human capital as organizational resources that can contribute to sustainable competitive success. A number of ... -
Peer Harassment: A Weapon in the Struggle for Popularity and Normative Hegemony in American Secondary Schools
(2003-11-01)This paper addresses two of secondary education’s most serious problems—peer abuse of weaker socially unskilled students and a peer culture that in most schools discourages many students from trying to be all that they can ... -
People in the E-Business: New Challenges, New Solutions
(2000-11-29)[Excerpt] Human Resource Planning Society’s (HRPS) annual State of the Art/Practice (SOTA/P) study has become an integral contributor to HRPS’s mission of providing leading edge thinking to its members. Past efforts conducted ... -
Perceived Equity, Motivation and Final Offer Arbitration in Major League Baseball
(1991-02-01)Final offer salary arbitration in major league baseball offers a unique institutional arrangement that creates a naturally occurring non-equivalent groups repeated measure research design. The structural arrangements allow ... -
Perception Is Reality: How Employees Perceive What Motivates HR Practices Affects their Engagement, Behavior and Performance
(2011-06-01)KEY FINDINGS: Espoused or intended HR practices have differential effects on employee engagement and citizenship behaviors depending on the underlying management motives employees attribute to those practices. To achieve ... -
Performance and Growth in Entrepreneurial Firms: What do Unions do?
(1999-01-01)This paper explores the effects of union presence on the performance of entrepreneurial firms in the mid-1990s (both at the initial public offering (IPO) and after the event). Contrary to prior studies, we find that within ... -
Performance-Based Long Term Incentive Compensation and Firm Performance
(2016-08-18)Awarding executives long-term incentive pay based on firm performance is often described as a natural way to improve firm performance. This brief uses an analytical approach to examine that proposed relationship. We first ... -
Personality and Cognitive Ability as Predictors of Job Search and Separation Among Employed Managers
(1999-07-01)Traditional models and research on employee job search and separation focus on situationally-specific variables, those that change with time or between particular employment situations. More enduring individual characteristics, ... -
Personnel/Human Resources Management: A Political Influence Perspective
(1990-11-01)It was suggested over ten years ago that new and different perspectives needed to be applied to the Personnel/Human Resources Management field in an effort to (P /HRM) promote theory and research and expand our understanding ... -
Political Influence Behavior and Career Success
(1992-07-01)In a recent review of the literature on politics and influence behavior in personnel/human resource management, Ferris and Judge (1991) noted that no studies had directly investigated the relationship between influence ... -
Predicting Employee Health Care Decisions in a Flexible Benefits Environment
(1990-11-01)[Excerpt] The purpose of this study is to identify the determinants of employees' health care selections in a flexible benefits environment. The goal is to develop a model which will enable managers to predict the health ... -
Predicting Employee Health Insurance Selections in a Flexible Benefits Environment
(1991-05-08)Firms are increasingly introducing flexible benefits programs into their employee compensation packages, yet very little is known about program outcomes. This study investigated the determinants of employees' selections ... -
Predicting Performance Of Initial Public Offering (IPO) Firms: Should Human Resource Management (HRM) Be In The Equation?
(1995-01-01)Population ecology is utilized to understand the role of human resource management (HRM) in enhancing the performance of initial public offering (IPO) companies. This is done by examining the determinants of structural ... -
Predicting Potential For Promotion: How The Data In Human Resource Information Systems Can Be Used To Help Organizations Gain Competitive Advantage
(2002-07-01)This paper utilizes the data contained in the Human Resources Information System (HRIS) of a company, called here “Engineering Solutions,” and analyzes the drivers of potential for promotion among a sample of engineers. ...
