American Workplace - Skills, Pay, and Employment Involvement

Klappentext This volume contributes to a growing consensus about effective workplace practices. Zusammenfassung This volume contributes to a growing consensus about effective workplace practices. The collection combines detailed studies of single industries (automobile assembly! apparel! and machine tools) with cross-industry studies of financial performance. The contributors find that systems of innovative human resource management practices can have large effects on business performance. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. What works at work: overview and assessment Casey Ichniowski, Thomas A. Kochan, David I. Levine, Craig Olson and George Strauss; 2. Diffusion and performance of modular production in the US apparel industry John T. Dunlop and David Weil; 3. The performance effects of modular production in the apparel industry Peter Berg, Eileen Applebaum, Thomas Bailey and Arne L. Kalleberg; 4. Participative bureaucracy and productivity in the machine products sector Maryellen R. Kelley; 5. Methodological issues in cross-sectional and panel estimates of the HR-firm performance link Mark A. Huselid and Brian E. Becker; 6. The adoption of high-involvement work practices Frits K. Pil and John Paul MacDuffie; 7. The effects of total quality management on corporate performance: an empirical investigation George S. Easton and Sherry L. Jarrell; 8. Implementing effective total quality management (TQM) programs on financial performance: a synthesis of evidence from quality award winners Kevin B. Hendricks and Vinod R. Singhal; 9. Public policy implications David I. Levine.

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• Authors: Casey Ichniowski, Casey (Columbia University Ichniowski, Casey Levine Ichniowski
• Assisted by: Casey Ichniowski (Editor), Ichniowski Casey (Editor), David I. Levine (Editor), Levine David I. (Editor), Craig Olson (Editor), Olson Craig (Editor), Strauss George (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.11.2008
• EAN: 9780521089975
• ISBN: 978-0-521-08997-5
• No. of pages: 300
• Subjects: Education and learning > Vocational and technical college books; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; USA, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Workplace Culture, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Office Management, Office & workplace, United States of America, USA, Office and workplace