The American Workplace - Skills, Pay, and Employment Involvement

This volume contributes to a growing consensus about effective workplace practices.

List of contents

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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Craig Olson
• Assisted by: Casey Ichniowski (Editor), Ichniowski Casey (Editor), David I Levine (Editor), David I. Levine (Editor), Levine David I. (Editor), Craig Olson (Editor), Olson Craig (Editor), George Strauss (Editor), Strauss George (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.04.2000
• EAN: 9780521650281
• ISBN: 978-0-521-65028-1
• Dimensions: 161 mm x 238 mm x 24 mm
• Weight: 560 g
• Illustrations: 64 tables, Tabellen, nicht spezifiziert
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Advertising, marketing; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Organizational Behavior, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Workplace Culture, Labour / income economics, Organizational theory & behaviour, Labour Economics, Working patterns & practices, Western Europe, Personnel & human resources management, Working patterns and practices, Personnel and human resources management, Organizational theory and behaviour, Western Continental Europe, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor / General