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Browsing Center for Advanced Human Resource Studies (CAHRS) by Title
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The Transnational Challenge: Performance and Expatriate Presence in the Overseas Affiliates of Japanese MNCs
(1996-03-01)Drawing on empirical data from two studies of 119 Japanese affiliates located in the United States and Europe, this paper focuses on three fundamental questions: 1. What organizational factors influence performance of the ... -
The True Resource in Strategic Human Resource Management: Insights From the Asia Pacific Region
(2001-09-01)A debate exists in the human resource management literature about which is the true resource: HR practices or human resource capabilities. This study addresses this debate. Semi-structured interviews and qualitative data ... -
The Value of Stock Options To Non-Executive Employees
(2006-08-25)This study empirically investigates the value employees place on stock options using information from the option exercise behavior of individuals. Employees hold options for another period if the value from holding them ... -
The View from the Top: How Strategic Human Resource Management Affects the Performance of Initial Public Offering Firms
(1997-11-01)We study SHRM by taking an organizational level perspective on control over all employees. Drawing from agency theory, control theory, and the resource-based view of the firm, we develop hypotheses regarding the differential ... -
The Work Ethic
(1995-06-01)[Excerpt] In everyday usage of the term 'Work Ethic' is almost indistinguishable from work satisfaction or simply attitudes to work. Do people value work or not, or are they in various degrees indifferent to it? Since most ... -
The Worsening Shortage of College Graduate Workers
(1990-12-01)The Bureau of Labor Statistics projections of occupational employment growth have consistently underpredicted the growth of skilled occupations. BLS currently projects that professional, technical and managerial jobs will ... -
Theoretical and Empirical Challenges in Studying: The HR Practice - Firm Performance Relationship
(2000-03-30)Over the past 10 years a plethora of research has been conducted seeking to establish a relationship between human resource (HR) practices and firm performance. While this research has demonstrated promising results, a ... -
Time and Performance: A Three-Part Study Examining the Relationships of Job Experience, Organizational Tenure, and Age With Job Performance
(2001-02-01)Theoretical and empirical research suggests that job experience, organizational tenure, and age have non-linear relationships with performance. Considered simultaneously, there should exist an inverted U-shaped relationship ... -
To Cut Pay or Lay Off: Exploring a Vexing HR Challenge
(2017-09-01)Key Findings: In today’s turbulent business environment the need to reduce payroll costs can arise at any time. Generally, this means resorting to one of two agonizing options: cutting pay or engaging in layoffs. The ... -
Tomorrow's Compensation and Rewards Shaped by Today's Choices
(1992-07-09)[Excerpt] Today's trends shape tomorrow. This is as true for the weather as it is for the way people are paid. Employee compensation in the future is being shaped by the choices we make today. So, by examining these choices, ... -
Toward A Model of International Compensation and Rewards: Learning From how Managers Respond to Variations in Local Host Contexts
(2000-11-01)Managers and researchers recognize that the tensions created by the interplay of globalization and national environments influence the behaviors of multinational enterprises (MNEs). In order to develop a model that is ... -
Toward a Strategic Human Resource Management Model of High Reliability Organization Performance
(2004-03-01)In this article, we extend strategic human resource management (SHRM) thinking to theory and research on high reliability organizations (HROs) using a behavioral approach. After considering the viability of reliability as ... -
Toward a Strategic Perspective of Human Resource Management
(1987-09-19)[Excerpt] The current decade has brought yet another transformation in the practice and study of human resource management (HRM). The field, for better or for worse, has discovered, and indeed begun to embrace, a strategic ... -
Toward a Unifying Framework for Exploring Fit and Flexibility in Strategic Human Resource Management
(1997-08-01)This paper presents a framework for studying the concepts of fit and flexibility in the field of Strategic Human Resource Management (Strategic HRM) focusing on HRM practices, employee skills, and employee behaviors and ... -
Toward More Valid Evaluations Of Training Programs Serving the Disadvantaged
(1987-03-18)The paper challenges the widespread assumption that the wage effects of federal training programs are reliable and unbiased estimates of productivity effects and social benefits. Evidence is presented that the reputations ... -
Transcultural Foundations of Success in Joint Ventures: The Best-Practice Case of MABE-GE
(1996-08-01)Effective management of transnational joint ventures requires understanding of two major trends rooted in our globalizing information economy. Businesses are becoming ever more knowledge-centered; and they find themselves ... -
Transforming Human Resource Organizations: A Field Study of Future Competency Requirements
(1995-07-01)As human resource organizations transform, staff competency requirements after significantly. The question is: to what? The present study attempts to answer this question using data gathered from knowledgeable observers ... -
Trends in Pension Benefit Formulas and Retirement Provisions
(1991-05-01)Changes in pension plan retirement formulas and benefit provisions over the last decade are examined, drawing on data collected and tabulated by the U.S. Department of Labor's Employee Benefits Survey of medium and large ... -
Trends in the Payoff to Academic and Occupation-Specific Skills: the Short and Medium Run Returns to Academic and Vocational High School Courses for Non-College Bound Students
(1998-03-01)Using data from three longitudinal surveys of American high school students, I show that vocational courses helped non-college-bound-students to start their work life more successfully, in terms of steadier employment, ... -
TSR, Executive Compensation, and Firm Performance
(2015-10-01)• Particularly since the recent recession, the general public and policy makers have been interested in aligning the incentives of executives with the incentives of shareholders. • Embedding Total Shareholder Return (TSR) ...
