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Record Nr.

UNINA9910815633803321

Titolo

Employment practices and business strategy / / edited by Peter Cappelli

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 1999

ISBN

0-19-770284-8

1-280-83118-9

0-19-535174-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (237 p.)

Collana

Oxford scholarship online

Altri autori (Persone)

CappelliPeter

Disciplina

658.3

Soggetti

Comparative management

Compensation management

Employee fringe benefits

Employee selection

Human capital

Labor productivity

Organizational effectiveness

Organizational learning

Personnel management

Quality of work life

Strategic planning

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 1999.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Contributors; Introduction; 1 Explaining Variation in Human Resource Practices in U.S. Steel Minimills; 2 The Characteristics and Determinants of Organizational Innovation in the Apparel Industry; 3 Organizational and Environmental Factors Influencing the Use and Diffusion of High-Involvement Work Practices; 4 Human Resource and Employment Practices in Telecommunications Services, 1980-1998; 5 Transforming Retail Banking; 6 Product Strategies, Work Force Skills, and ""High-Involvement"" Work Practices; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Explaining the persistence of good jobs and bad jobs in the economy, this study contains research in the fields of human resources and



corporate strategy.