Employment Practices and Business Strategy.
Title:
Employment Practices and Business Strategy.
Author:
Cappelli, Peter.
ISBN:
9780195351743
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (237 pages)
Contents:
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 -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.
Abstract:
This book explores the reasons for persistent differences in work practices both within and between industries. The authors found that the strategy that a firm chooses to follow often determines the kind of work practices it fosters. Therefore a firm may not adopt the approach now advocated by many management thinkers--in which decision-making is pushed down to the lowest level of the firm--because this choice may not be consistent with its competitive strategy. The authors discuss the ways that public policy can aid workers without subverting the strategic choices made by firms.
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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