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 - University of Minnesota, USA
Peter V. Marsden - Harvard University, USA
Joe L. Spaeth

April 1996 | 398 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc

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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 practices in American 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
Differential treatment of employees according to ethnicity and gender 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.

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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

Recruitment and Selection Methods

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

Influences of Work Positions and Family Roles

Arne L Kalleberg et al

Conclusions and Prospects

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Analysing Their Structures and Human Resource Practices

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