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Privatizing Education: Lessons from Canada and Europe
(1998-09-22)[Excerpt] Legislative proposals for vouchers for K-12 schooling have come before many legislatures and are a regular part of election year debates. Public support for vouchers is growing. When a representative sample of ... -
Productivy Growth and Tenure: A Test of on-the-Job Training Theories of Wage and Productivy Growth
(1988-09-29)[Excerpt] Studies have found consistently that there is a strong positive correlation between a worker's tenure with a firm and that individual's wage rate. Becker's (1975) on-the-job training (OJT) model is the most widely ... -
Promoting Mental Health and Well-Being at Work: The Role of the Manager
(2021-01)[Excerpt] Burnout can become that much more common when collective stress affects all employees. And the benefits of community may be all the more fleeting when employees are working from home indefinitely. This unprecedented ... -
Promoting Mental Health and Well-Being During COVID-19 and Beyond
(Center for Advanced Human Resource Studies, 2021-03)Employee health and well-being, long concerns of corporations, took center stage with the advent of COVID-19. Just before the pandemic, major companies were spending an average of 3.5 million a year on special programs to ... -
Psychological Contracts, OCB and Customer Service: An Exploratory Examination
(1995-07-01)This paper examines the relationships among the psychological contract, fairness, OCB, and customer service. We report on two exploratory studies that provide insight into psychological contract violations and subsequent ... -
Raising Academic Standards and Vocational Concentrators: Are They Better Off Or Worse Off?
(2004-07-01)This paper measures the impacts of tougher graduation requirements on course taking patterns, learning, college attendance and post high school labor market outcomes for vocational concentrators and non-concentrators. Our ... -
Rational and Coalition Models of Job Evaluation: Do More Powerful University Departments Have an Advantage?
(1995-06-01)Job evaluation research has, to date, focused on the individual as the unit of analysis. After approximately 50 years of study, evidence on the basic assumptions supporting job evaluation is still inconclusive. This study ... -
Re-Examining Employee Participation Through the Lens of Stakeholder Management
(1999-08-01)This paper uses a stakeholder framework to examine the differential outcomes of participatory strategies for a stratified random sample of 1,191 middle managers, supervisors, and workers in a large service organization. ... -
Recognizing Risk in Human Capital Investments: A Real Options Approach to Strategic Human Resource Management
(2000-11-01)An issue that has not yet been explored in the field of strategic human resource management (SHRM) is that of managing the ‘risks’ involved in human capital management of the firm. We address this issue using the real ... -
Recruiter Perceptions of Applicant Fit: Commonalities and Differences
(1992-01-01)To date, normative selection models have focused primarily on matching individual knowledges, skills, and abilities to job requirements. However, it has increasingly been argued that people should also be selected for fit ... -
Recruitment Research and Applicant Attraction: What Have We Learned?
(1989-01-01)Developing labor shortages are increasing the importance of recruitment to organizations. However, previous recruitment research has provided few operational guidelines for persuading high quality candidates to apply for, ... -
Recruitment, Job Choice, and Post-Hire Consequences: A Call For New Research Directions
(1989-01-01)[Excerpt] "Technology in employee selection is more highly developed than in recruiting or placement; therefore, the major emphasis is on selection Recruiting or placement are not less important processes; to the contrary, ... -
Reframing Turnover/Personality Research in the Context of the Attraction-Selection-Attrition Hypothesis
(1990-06-01)This paper re-examines data originally reported by Cowan & Dreher (1983) in their examination of personality correlates of turnover among managerial, professional, and technical employees. It is intended to reframe the ... -
Reining-in a Rogue Policy: The Imperative of Immigration Reform
(1999-03-01)[Excerpt] It was Napoleon who said “policy is destiny.” There are few better examples of the direct link between the change-creating influences of public policies on subsequent societal outcomes than immigration policy. ... -
Remote Work in the Time of COVID-19: Key Learnings and Implications
(Center for Advanced Human Resource Studies, 2021-02)Until recently, remote work was a way of life in a few firms, a hit or miss proposition in others, and a twinkle in the eyes of many more. With COVID-19, all bets were off; suddenly remote work became a way of life for ... -
Reports on an Alternative Measure of Affective Disposition
(1992-10-13)Researchers investigating the dispositional source of job satisfaction have often used negative or positive affectivity as the measure of affective disposition. The present study tested the validity of an alternative measure ... -
Representing Strategic International Human Resource Management: Is the Map the Territory?
(1998-02-01)This paper is focused on the emergent field of strategic international human resource management (SIHRM). We suggest that SIHRM is becoming an integrated intellectual map in terms of: (1) the typologies created; (2) the ... -
Research and Applications of the Processes of Performance Appraisal: A Bibliography of Recent Literature, 1981-1989
(1990-10-01)[Excerpt] There have been several recent reviews of different subtopics within the general performance appraisal literature. The reader of these reviews will find, however, that the accompanying citations may be of limited ... -
Research Report on Phase 4 of Cornell University/Gevity Institute Study Human Resource Management Practices and Firm Performance in Small Businesses: A Look at the Effects of HR Practices on Financial Performance and Turnover
(2006-03-01)In this study, we found evidence that groups of HR practices that represent different strategies for managing employees were significantly related to the financial performance of small companies. In particular, we found ... -
Research Report on Phase 5 Of Cornell University/Gevity Institute Study: Human Resource Management Practices and Firm Performance In Small Businesses: A Look At Differences Across Industries
(2007-03-26)In this study, we look at the effects of three HR practice strategies on firm performance and examine potential differences in effects across industries. Overall, we found that employee selection based on person-organization ...
