
America at Work : Choices and Challenges.
Title:
America at Work : Choices and Challenges.
Author:
O'Toole, J.
ISBN:
9781403983596
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (366 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Foreword -- Part 1 Quality of Worklife of Americans -- 1 Working Alone: Whatever Happened to the Idea of Organizations as Communities? -- 2 The Transformation of Work in America: New Health Vulnerabilities for American Workers -- 3 Restoring Voice at Work and in Society -- 4 Work and Family in America: Growing Tensions between Employment Policy and a Transformed Workforce -- 5 The Effects of New Work Practices on Workers -- 6 Trends in Jobs and Wages in the U.S. Economy -- Part 2 Careers in the New American Workplace -- 7 Is Education the Answer? Trends in the Supply and Demand for Skills in the U.S.Workforce -- 8 Bringing Careers Back in…The Changing Landscape of Careers in American Corporations Today -- 9 The Shifting Risk for the American Worker in the Contemporary Employment Contract -- 10 Itinerant Professionals: Technical Contractors in a Knowledge Economy -- 11 The Changing Employment Circumstances of Managers -- 12 Changing Career Paths and their Implications -- Part 3 Organizational Effectiveness -- 13 The Value of Innovative Human Resource Management Practices -- 14 The Economic Impact of Employee Behaviors on Organizational Performance -- 15 Global Sourcing of Talent: Implications for the U.S.Workforce -- 16 Shared Capitalism at Work: Impacts and Policy Options -- About the Contributors -- Notes -- Combined References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.
Abstract:
This wide-ranging volume brings together the commissioned papers that are the basis of James O' Toole and Edward E. Lawler' s "The New American Workplace," their follow-up to the groundbreaking 1973 "Work in America" report. Here leading scholars in the fields of business, management, and human resources offer new research and insightful analyses of existing studies, providing a definitive assessment of the state of the workplace today. Covering wage trends, worker health, education and the workforce, the effects of outsourcing, careers, human resources management, and a variety of other vital issues, this illuminating collection will prove indispensable for scholars, professionals, and policymakers.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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