America at Work : Choices and Challenges / edited by J. O'Toole, E. Lawler.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lawler, Edward E., III

O'Toole, James.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Personnel management.

Office management.

Human Resource Management.

Office Management.

Local Subjects:

Human Resource Management.

Office Management.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (X, 355 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2006.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A companion to The New American Workplace , which is co-published with the Society for Human Resource Management and the Centre for Effective Organizations, this volume contains original articles and groundbreaking research, on workplace issues in America today from leading scholars in the fields of business, management and human resources.

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

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Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-348) and index.

ISBN:

9786611365790

9781281365798

1281365793

9781403983596

1403983593

OCLC:

314794112