American Workplace (eBook, PDF)

Skills, Pay, and Employment Involvement
Redaktion: Ichniowski, Casey

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Many managers are frustrated by a bewildering array of advice about what works in the workplace. 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. Compared to most past investigations, the research here has better measures of both workplace practices and organizational performance. The contributors find that systems of innovative human resource management practices can have large effects on business performance. Success does not come from any single innovation, but from a coherent system encompassing pay, training, and employee involvement. Although a majority of contemporary US businesses now have adopted some innovative work practices, only a small percentage of businesses have adopted a coherent new system. A concluding chapter outlines barriers to diffusion and discusses public policies to remove barriers and enhance dissemination of effective management.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. April 2000
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511512292
• Artikelnr.: 38195313

Inhaltsangabe

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.