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Reality and rhetoric: Sources of power for the human resource department in organizations

Galang, Maria Carmen Castrence - 1994

Commentaries have been made on the increasing influence of human resource management (HRM) in organizations. However …

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Worker behavior and motivation in employee-owned firms: Evidence from Brazil and the U.S

Ros, Agustin Jose - 1994

firm. Worker effort is variable and directly related to the internal operations of the firm including management …

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Employment adjustment in steel industry: The U.S. and Japan compared

Park, Ho Hwan - 1992

This study purports to compare employment adjustment process in steel industry between the U.S. and Japan in the period 1974-1988. In response to production decline after the Oil Shock of 1973, Japanese steel companies reduced working hours, but not employment. In the 1980s, however, they...

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Changes in tenure-earnings profiles and implicit contracts in managerial labor markets

Chauvin, Keith William - 1989

This study looks at recent changes in managerial labor markets in terms of changes in the relationship between tenure and earnings. Many product markets have become less stable during the past decade with the deregulation of several industries and increases in foreign competition. As a result,...

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Legal, informational, and testing restrictions in employment: A study of antidiscrimination policy

Sadka-Negrin, Joyce Carol; Sadka-Negrin, Joyce Carol - 1998

This dissertation addresses the problem of informational and legal restrictions on employment screening processes such as educational requirements and standardized testing. For the past two decades, the legal system in the U.S. has struggled with this issue and has labeled certain information or...

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Information search in personnel selection decisions: The influence of affirmative action, decision set, and selection ratio

Swerdlin, Marnie Rose; Swerdlin, Marnie Rose - 1995

A series of three laboratory experiments examined effects of affirmative action (AA) employment policies, decision set (in terms of accepting or rejecting applicants), and selection ratio (ratio of applicants to available positions) on amount, duration, content, and sequence of information...

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Consolidation versus fragmentation: Testing optimum metropolitan government structure

Moore, Philip Dyer; Moore, Philip Dyer - 1997

The proportion of a unit of government's budget devoted to labor costs determines whether cost reductions at the metropolitan level are achieved through fragmentation or consolidation. Consolidating capital intense functions at higher levels of government is the optimal cost-reducing strategy....

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Higher level manpower development in Indonesia: Rates of return and embodied technical change

Bishry, Rony Mamur - 1990

This study consists of basic research on rates of return to higher education in Indonesia. Four different techniques to estimate rates of return are employed: the pure internal rate of return, the Mincer earnings function, the Cobb-Douglas production function, and the nested-CES production...

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Public sector unions and the privatization of municipal services

Chandler, Timothy David - 1991

with city management. Sanitation contracting is less likely to occur if there is a public sanitation union present in the … municipality which has cooperative relations with city management and more likely to occur if there is a public sanitation union … present which has confrontational relations with city management. Further, results indicate that the higher the probability of …

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Empowered work groups: Conceptual framework and empirical assessment of empowerment processes and outcomes in organizations

Arad, Sharon - 1994

This paper proposes a conceptual model of work group empowerment and describes a study that was designed to evaluate the model. The conceptual model specifies directional relations among the antecedents, dimensions, and outcomes of empowered work groups. The model hypothesized that the effects...

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