Research Catalog

Title

Organizations in America : analyzing their structures and human resource practices / Arne L. Kalleberg [and others].

Publication

Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, [1996], ©1996.

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Additional Authors

Kalleberg, Arne L.

Description

xvi, 382 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

• Based on the findings of the National Organizations Study, Organizations in America provides a comprehensive review of the first national survey of organizations in the United States. Using a statistically representative sample, this work is the most authoritative database on the workings of organizations available.
• The principal investigators of the study use this data set to define what we know about the structures and human resource practice in U.S. organizations and describes the National Organizations study and its implications; specific employment practices - hiring, training, promotion, performance measurement, benefit packages, contingent work - and how they compare between different businesses and business sectors; and differences between male and female employees.
• This breakthrough publication is an indispensable reference tool for those in the areas of organizational studies, human resources, sociology of work, industrial psychology, social stratification, labor, and labor economics.

Subject

• Industrial organization > United States
• Personnel management > United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 339-358) and indexes.

Contents

• 1. Organizational Properties and Practices / Arne L. Kalleberg, David Knoke, Peter V. Marsden and Joe L. Spaeth -- 2. Design of the National Organizations Study / Joe L. Spaeth and Diane P. O'Rourke -- 3. American Organizations and Their Environments / Peter V. Marsden, Cynthia R. Cook and David Knoke -- 4. Bureaucratic Structures for Coordination and Control / Peter V. Marsden, Cynthia R. Cook and Arne L. Kalleberg -- 5. Formalizing the Employment Relation / Arne L. Kalleberg, Peter V. Marsden, David Knoke and Joe L. Spaeth -- 6. Human Resource Management and Organizational Performance / Arne L. Kalleberg and James W. Moody -- 7. The Staffing Process / Peter V. Marsden -- 8. Job Training in U.S. Organizations / David Knoke and Arne L. Kalleberg -- 9. Training, Unions, and Internal Labor Markets / David Knoke and Yoshito Ishio -- 10. Organizational Differences in Earnings / Arne L. Kalleberg and Mark E. Van Buren --
• 11. The Structure of Organizational Earnings Inequality / Arne L. Kalleberg and Mark E. Van Buren -- 12. Cui Bono? Employee Benefit Packages / David Knoke -- 13. Contingent Employment in Organizations / Arne L. Kalleberg and Kathryn Schmidt -- 14. Organizational Patterns of Gender Segregation / Donald Tomaskovic-Devey, Arne L. Kalleberg and Peter V. Marsden -- 15. Gender Differences and Organizational Commitment / Peter V. Marsden, Arne L. Kalleberg and Cynthia R. Cook -- 16. Conclusions and Prospects / Arne L. Kalleberg, David Knoke, Peter V. Marsden and Joe L. Spaeth.

ISBN

• 0803958153 (acid-free paper)
• 0803958161 (pbk. : acid-free paper)

LCCN

96004510

OCLC

• 34149206
• ocm34149206

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries