Employment practices and business strategy

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"Each chapter in this book, written by experts in employment issues, addresses employment practices across similar firms within an industry and attempts to explain why they differ. The contributors also explore ways in which public policy can aid workers without subverting the strategic choices made by their firms. One lesson that emerges from their work is that efforts to encourage employers to develop a particular set of high performance work practices must confront the fact that these decisions result from a complex system of prior choices that are difficult to alter. Public policy may play a role by supporting training and other skill development programs, but pressures directed at work practices themselves are likely to be less successful."--BOOK JACKET.

subjects: Compensation management,  Labor productivity,  Organizational learning,  Employee selection,  Strategic planning,  Quality of work life,  Case studies,  Comparative management,  Organizational effectiveness,  Personnel management,  Human capital,  Employee fringe benefits,  Personeelsmanagement,  Personnel,  University of South Alabama,  Productivité,  Ressources humaines,  Apprentissage organisationnel,  Strategisches Management,  Direction,  Arbeitsorganisation,  Salaires,  Efficacité organisationnelle,  Cas, Études de,  Personalentwicklung,  Sélection,  Gestion comparée,  Arbeitsgestaltung,  Apprentissage organisationel,  Gestion,  Qualité de la vie au travail,  Etudes de cas,  Avantages sociaux,  Personalpolitik,  Planification stratégique,  Aufsatzsammlung,  Manpower policy,  Corporations, growth,  Industrial management