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Organizations in America
Analysing Their Structures and Human Resource Practices
Edited by:
- Arne L. Kalleberg - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
- David Knoke
- Peter V. Marsden - Harvard University, USA
- Joe L. Spaeth
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Sociology of Organizations, Institutions & Structure
Sociology of Organizations, Institutions & Structure
June 1996 | 398 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
This volume presents an authoritative database on the workings of organizations in the United States. It describes the National Organizations Study, the first national survey of organizations in the US using a statistically representative sample. As well as outlining the study and the major conclusions it reaches, the book also looks at specific employment practices - hiring, training, promotion, performance measurement, benefit packages and contingent work - and how they compare between different businesses and business sectors. Differential treatment of employees according to ethnicity and gender is examined as part of the analysis of these topics.
PART ONE: THE NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS STUDY
Arne L Kalleberg et al
Organizational Properties and Practices
Joe L Spaeth and Diane P O'Rourke
Design of the National Organizations Study
Peter V Marsden, Cynthia R Cook, and David Knoke
American Organizations and Their Environments
PART TWO: ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURES
Peter V Marsden, Cynthia R Cook, and Arne L Kalleberg
Bureaucratic Structures for Coordination and Control
Arne L Kalleberg et al
Formalizing the Employment Relation
Arne L Kalleberg and James W Moody
Human Resource Management and Organizational Performance
PART THREE: ORGANIZATIONS' HUMAN RESOURCE PRACTICES
Peter V Marsden
The Staffing Process
David Knoke and Arne L Kalleberg
Job Training in US Organizations
David Knoke and Yoshito Ishio
Training, Unions, and Internal Labor Markets
Arne L Kalleberg and Mark E Van Buren
Organizational Differences in Earnings
Arne L Kalleberg and Mark E Van Buren
The Structure of Organizational Earnings Inequality
David Knoke
Cui Bono? Employee Benefit Packages
PART FOUR: ORGANIZATIONS AND THE CHANGING WORKFORCE
Arne L Kalleberg and Kathryn Schmidt
Contingent Employment in Organizations
Donald Tomaskovic-Devey, Arne L Kalleberg, and Peter V Marsden
Organizational Patterns of Gender Segregation
Peter V Marsden, Arne L Kalleberg, and Cynthia R Cook
Gender Differences in Organizational Commitment
Arne L Kalleberg et al
Conclusions and Prospects