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Work Loyalty and Individualism in the United States and Canada

Ali, Abbas J.; Azim, Ahmed; Falcone, Thomas W. - In: International Journal of Manpower 14 (1993) 6, pp. 58-66

Addresses the relationship between work loyalty and individualism in the USA and Canada in a study of 434 subjects from …

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Job Rotation and Public Policy: Theory with Applications to Japan and the USA

Mourdoukoutas, Panos; Roy, Udayan - In: International Journal of Manpower 15 (1994) 6, pp. 57-71

Argues that the high job mobility observed most prominently among workers in Japanese firms is consistent with the behaviour of risk‐averse individuals when neither private nor public income insurance is widely available to displaced workers. Laissez faire is suboptimal and involves higher job...

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Pay and Employment Equity in the United States and Canada

Gunderson, Morley - In: International Journal of Manpower 15 (1994) 7, pp. 26-43

Pay and employment equity initiatives clearly have been important policies in Canada and the United States. While the policies appear to have had some positive effects for some members of the target groups for which they are to apply, large gaps still remain in the pay and employment...

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Discrimination issues affecting the selection of salespeople in the United States : a review with managerial suggestions

Shepherd, C. David - In: International Journal of Manpower 16 (1995) 4, pp. 57-69

Traditionally, European firms have opted for hiring Americans to sell their products in the USA. However, the recent … enactment of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) highlights the growing complexity of discrimination regulation in the USA …. Even before enactment of this landmark legislation the number of federal suits alleging workplace discrimination in the USA …

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On transplanting human resource practices to China : A culture‐driven approach

Paul Huo, Y.; Von Glinow, Mary Ann - In: International Journal of Manpower 16 (1995) 9, pp. 3-15

) practices – beyond what is a accounted for by political or economic structures – by comparing the USA with one of its major … trading partners, Taiwan and with the People′s Republic of China (PRC), a country with which the USA has had a rather …

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Exercise in the workplace? Employee preferences

Waikar, Avinash M.; Bradshaw, Martha E. - In: International Journal of Manpower 16 (1995) 9, pp. 16-30

Discusses musculoskeletal stress as a result of sedentary work, which has been and still is a problem in workplaces. Simple, quick exercises may be a low‐cost solution to this problem. Provides an account of an investigation, the aim of which was to determine employees′ preference about and...

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Managing workforce diversity: macro and micro level HR implications of network analysis

Stephenson, Karen; Lewin, David - In: International Journal of Manpower 17 (1996) 4/5, pp. 168-196

Public policy which controls and seeks to correct employment discrimination is now in its fourth decade in the USA … innovation may lie in the former. Finds that understanding and managing the networks in organizations may be used to augment …

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Employment equity, affirmative action and managing diversity: assessing the differences

Agócs, Carol; Burr, Catherine - In: International Journal of Manpower 17 (1996) 4/5, pp. 30-45

Affirmative action in the USA, and employment equity in Canada, are policy frameworks that have developed through the …

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The perceived impact of team‐based management systems on organizational effectiveness

Elmuti, Dean - In: International Journal of Manpower 17 (1996) 8, pp. 4-17

of settings throughout the USA. Uses a validated instrument on organizational effectiveness to gather data. Presents …

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What motivates employees according to over 40 years of motivation surveys

Wiley, Carolyn - In: International Journal of Manpower 18 (1997) 3, pp. 263-280

Explores past and present attitudes of employees concerning work‐related motivational factors. Understanding the factors that employees consider motivating lends insight to the rewards to which they more positively respond. Compares the results of four motivation surveys conducted in 1946,...

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