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This volume presents an authoritative database on the workings of organizations in the United States. It describes the National Organizations Study, the first national survey of organizations in the US using a statistically representative sample. As well as outlining the study and the major conclusions it reaches, the book also looks at specific employment practices - hiring, training, promotion, performance measurement, benefit packages and contingent work - and how they compare between different businesses and business sectors. Differential treatment of employees according to ethnicity and gender is examined as part of the analysis of these topics.
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PART ONE: THE NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS STUDY
Organizational Properties and Practices - Arne L Kalleberg et al
Design of the National Organizations Study - Joe L Spaeth and Diane P O¿Rourke
American Organizations and Their Environments - Peter V Marsden, Cynthia R Cook, and David Knoke
PART TWO: ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURES
Bureaucratic Structures for Coordination and Control - Peter V Marsden, Cynthia R Cook, and Arne L Kalleberg
Formalizing the Employment Relation - Arne L Kalleberg et al
Human Resource Management and Organizational Performance - Arne L Kalleberg and James W Moody
PART THREE: ORGANIZATIONS¿ HUMAN RESOURCE PRACTICES
The Staffing Process - Peter V Marsden
Recruitment and Selection Methods
Job Training in US Organizations - David Knoke and Arne L Kalleberg
Training, Unions, and Internal Labor Markets - David Knoke and Yoshito Ishio
Organizational Differences in Earnings - Arne L Kalleberg and Mark E Van Buren
The Structure of Organizational Earnings Inequality - Arne L Kalleberg and Mark E Van Buren
Cui Bono? Employee Benefit Packages - David Knoke
PART FOUR: ORGANIZATIONS AND THE CHANGING WORKFORCE
Contingent Employment in Organizations - Arne L Kalleberg and Kathryn Schmidt
Organizational Patterns of Gender Segregation - Donald Tomaskovic-Devey, Arne L Kalleberg, and Peter V Marsden
Gender Differences in Organizational Commitment - Peter V Marsden, Arne L Kalleberg, and Cynthia R Cook
Influences of Work Positions and Family Roles
Conclusions and Prospects - Arne L Kalleberg et al
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David Knoke (Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1972) is a professor of sociology at the University of Minnesota, where he teaches and does research on diverse social networks, including political, economic, healthcare, intra- and interorganizational, and terrorist & counterterror networks. In addition to many articles and chapters, he has written seven books about networks: Network Analysis (1982, with James Kuklinski), The Organizational State (1985, with Edward Laumann), Political Networks (1990), Comparing Policy Networks (1996, with Franz Pappi, Jeffrey Broadbent, and Yutaka Tsujinaka), Changing Organizations (2001), Social Network Analysis (2008, with Song Yang), and Economic Networks (2012).
PETER V. MARSDEN is the Edith and Benjamin Geisinger Professor of Sociology at Harvard University. His research interests center on social organization, social networks, and survey research. He teaches about these subjects as well as on quantitative methods for data analysis. He received the Paul F. Lazarsfeld Award recognizing a career of distinguished contributions to methodology in sociology from the Section on Methodology of the American Sociological Association in 2016.
Marsden was a co-principal investigator of the General Social Survey between 1997 and 2015, and a lead investigator of three National Organizations Studies conducted between 1991 and 2003. He edited Social Trends in American Life: Findings from the General Social Survey since 1972 (Princeton University Press, 2012), which won the Book Award given by the American Association for Public Opinion Research in 2015. With James D. Wright, he edited the second edition of the Handbook of Survey Research (Emerald Group Publishing, 2010). His articles and chapters concentrate on studies of social networks—especially egocentric networks and their measurement—as well as work orientations, social trends, and issues in organizational analysis.
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Presents an authoritative database on the workings of organizations in the United States. This book describes the National Organizations Study, the first national survey of organizations in the US using a statistically representative sample.
