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Executive Pay And Firm Performance: Methodological Considerations And Future Directions
February 26, 2010, 12:00am PST
This paper is an investigation of the pay-for-performance link in executive compensation. In particular the authors document main issues in the pay-performance debate and explain practical issues...
Provided by ILR School, Cornell University
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White Papers
Employees' Choice Of Method Of Pay
February 27, 2009, 12:00am PST
Who chooses what type of pay? The costs and benefits of "Flexible" and "Cafeteria-style" benefit plans have been discussed for some time. Additionally, many papers have considered the potential...
Provided by ILR School, Cornell University
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White Papers
The Human Resource Economics Of Vernon Briggs
June 12, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper examines the conception of Human Resource Economics (HRE) that shaped the career of Vernon M. Briggs Jr. It probes the history of economic thought to describe the intellectual roots of...
Provided by ILR School, Cornell University
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White Papers
Social Unionism In Western New York: The Case Of The Economic Development Group
July 26, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The academic literature on union-community engagement - labor activity often called social unionism - has grown steadily since about 1980, an expansion paralleling a similar evolution in union...
Provided by ILR School, Cornell University
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White Papers
Labor Retrenchment Laws And Their Effect On Wages And Employment: A Theoretical Investigation
March 25, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Many countries have legislation which makes it costly for firms to dismiss or retrench workers. In the case of India, the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947, requires firms that employ 50 or more...
Provided by ILR School, Cornell University
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White Papers
Complexity-Based Agile Enterprises: Putting Self- Organizing Emergence To Work
January 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
Organizations competing in hypercompetitive marketplaces have two possible paths to potential success. They can attempt to transform traditional bureaucracies into more nimble, adaptable, and...
Provided by ILR School, Cornell University
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White Papers
Earnings Mobility In Times Of Growth And Decline: Argentina From 1996 To 2003
July 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
In recent years, the economy of Argentina has experienced both rapid economic growth and severe economic decline. In this paper, the authors use a series of one-year-long panels to study who...
Provided by ILR School, Cornell University
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White Papers
Why Do Leaders Matter? The Role Of Expert Knowledge
June 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Why do some leaders succeed while others fail? This question is important, but its complexity makes it hard to study systematically. The authors draw on a setting where there are well-defined...
Provided by ILR School, Cornell University
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White Papers
Changing An Unfavorable Employment Reputation: A Longitudinal Examination
November 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
High information recruitment practices (e.g., personal communication from a recruiter) from both single and multiple sources were more effective for changing unfavorable employment reputation...
Provided by ILR School, Cornell University
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White Papers
Research Report On Phase 5 Of Cornell University/Gevity Institute Study: Human Resource Management Practices And Firm Performance In Small Businesses: A Look At Differences Across Industries
March 26, 2007, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors look at the effects of three HR practice strategies on firm performance and examine potential differences in effects across industries. Overall, they found that employee...
Provided by ILR School, Cornell University
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White Papers
An Empirical Analysis Of Risk, Incentives, And The Delegation Of Worker Authority
June 20, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The notion of a negative relationship between risk and incentives is a central prediction of agency theory. A vast literature has failed to find consistent empirical support for this prediction,...
Provided by ILR School, Cornell University
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White Papers
Excerpts From Bottom-Line Management
May 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The author will help you if you are (or aim to be) a senior manager in an organization and have a seat at the table where key decisions are made. The author will also help you if you are (or aim...
Provided by ILR School, Cornell University
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White Papers
Discrimination In Organizations: An Organizational-Level Systems Perspective
March 1, 2007, 12:00am PST
It has become increasingly clear to organizational decision makers that employment discrimination is a serious and expensive problem that needs to be addressed. The financial costs associated with...
Provided by ILR School, Cornell University
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White Papers
Upper Echelon Theory Revisited: The Relationship Between Upper Echelon Diversity, The Adoption Of Diversity Practices, And Organizational Performance
January 15, 2007, 12:00am PST
Using data from 260 U.S. organizations, the authors found partial support for the hypotheses that demographic diversity of senior management would be positively associated with the diversity of...
Provided by ILR School, Cornell University
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White Papers
Employee Attributions Of The "Why" Of HR Practices: Their Effects On Employee Attitudes And Behaviors, And Customer Satisfaction
December 1, 2007, 12:00am PST
The construct of Human Resource (HR) Attributions is introduced. The authors argue that the attributions that employees make about the reasons why management adopts the HR practices that it does...
Provided by ILR School, Cornell University
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HRM In Service: The Contingencies Abound
February 1, 2007, 12:00am PST
Despite the rapid growth in the diversity of service consumers - both abroad and domestically - theoretical developments regarding this diversity in the service world have lagged far behind those...
Provided by ILR School, Cornell University
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White Papers
Variability Within Organizations: Implications For Strategic Human Resource Management
January 1, 2007, 12:00am PST
Strategic human resource management refers to the pattern of planned human resource deployments and activities intended to enable an organization to achieve its goals. Over the last decade or so,...
Provided by ILR School, Cornell University
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White Papers
Human Resource Practices And Organizational Commitment: A Deeper Examination
December 1, 2007, 12:00am PST
This paper examines newer conceptualizations of HRM practices in the HR-Performance Relationship as well as newer conceptualizations of commitment. Juxtaposing these categories of HR practices and...
Provided by ILR School, Cornell University
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White Papers
Strategic Management And HRM
April 1, 2006, 12:00am PST
It has been said that the most important assets of any business walk out the door at the end of each day. Indeed, people and the management of people are increasingly seen as key elements of...
Provided by ILR School, Cornell University
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The Impact Of eHR On Professional Competence In HRM: Implications For The Development Of HR Professionals
April 1, 2006, 12:00am PST
Information technology has been cited as a critical driver of HR's transition from a focus on administrative tasks to a focus on serving as a strategic business partner. This strategic role not...
Provided by ILR School, Cornell University
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How Does Employee Involvement Stack Up? The Effects Of Human Resource Management Policies On Performance In A Retail Firm
December 13, 2006, 12:00am PST
By assembling and analyzing new panel data, the authors investigate the impact of innovative Human Resource Management (HRM) practices on performance for a retail firm. Monthly financial and...
Provided by ILR School, Cornell University
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What Is Strategic Competence And Does It Matter? Exposition Of The Concept And A Research Agenda
October 1, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Drawing on a range of theoretical and empirical insights from strategic management and the cognitive and organizational sciences, The authors argue that strategic competence constitutes the...
Provided by ILR School, Cornell University
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What Is Strategic Competence And Does It Matter? Exposition Of The Concept And A Research Agenda
October 1, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Drawing on a range of theoretical and empirical insights from strategic management and the cognitive and organizational sciences, The authors argue that strategic competence constitutes the...
Provided by ILR School, Cornell University
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White Papers
How Does Employee Involvement Stack Up? The Effects Of Human Resource Management Policies On Performance In A Retail Firm
December 13, 2006, 12:00am PST
By assembling and analyzing new panel data, the authors investigate the impact of innovative Human Resource Management (HRM) practices on performance for a retail firm. Monthly financial and...
Provided by ILR School, Cornell University
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White Papers
The Impact Of eHR On Professional Competence In HRM: Implications For The Development Of HR Professionals
April 1, 2006, 12:00am PST
Information technology has been cited as a critical driver of HR's transition from a focus on administrative tasks to a focus on serving as a strategic business partner. This strategic role not...
Provided by ILR School, Cornell University
-
White Papers
Strategic Management And HRM
April 1, 2006, 12:00am PST
It has been said that the most important assets of any business walk out the door at the end of each day. Indeed, people and the management of people are increasingly seen as key elements of...
Provided by ILR School, Cornell University
-
White Papers
Human Resource Practices And Organizational Commitment: A Deeper Examination
December 1, 2007, 12:00am PST
This paper examines newer conceptualizations of HRM practices in the HR-Performance Relationship as well as newer conceptualizations of commitment. Juxtaposing these categories of HR practices and...
Provided by ILR School, Cornell University
-
White Papers
Variability Within Organizations: Implications For Strategic Human Resource Management
January 1, 2007, 12:00am PST
Strategic human resource management refers to the pattern of planned human resource deployments and activities intended to enable an organization to achieve its goals. Over the last decade or so,...
Provided by ILR School, Cornell University
-
White Papers
HRM In Service: The Contingencies Abound
February 1, 2007, 12:00am PST
Despite the rapid growth in the diversity of service consumers - both abroad and domestically - theoretical developments regarding this diversity in the service world have lagged far behind those...
Provided by ILR School, Cornell University
-
White Papers
Employee Attributions Of The "Why" Of HR Practices: Their Effects On Employee Attitudes And Behaviors, And Customer Satisfaction
December 1, 2007, 12:00am PST
The construct of Human Resource (HR) Attributions is introduced. The authors argue that the attributions that employees make about the reasons why management adopts the HR practices that it does...
Provided by ILR School, Cornell University
-
White Papers
Upper Echelon Theory Revisited: The Relationship Between Upper Echelon Diversity, The Adoption Of Diversity Practices, And Organizational Performance
January 15, 2007, 12:00am PST
Using data from 260 U.S. organizations, the authors found partial support for the hypotheses that demographic diversity of senior management would be positively associated with the diversity of...
Provided by ILR School, Cornell University
-
White Papers
Discrimination In Organizations: An Organizational-Level Systems Perspective
March 1, 2007, 12:00am PST
It has become increasingly clear to organizational decision makers that employment discrimination is a serious and expensive problem that needs to be addressed. The financial costs associated with...
Provided by ILR School, Cornell University
-
White Papers
Excerpts From Bottom-Line Management
May 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The author will help you if you are (or aim to be) a senior manager in an organization and have a seat at the table where key decisions are made. The author will also help you if you are (or aim...
Provided by ILR School, Cornell University
-
White Papers
An Empirical Analysis Of Risk, Incentives, And The Delegation Of Worker Authority
June 20, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The notion of a negative relationship between risk and incentives is a central prediction of agency theory. A vast literature has failed to find consistent empirical support for this prediction,...
Provided by ILR School, Cornell University
-
White Papers
Research Report On Phase 5 Of Cornell University/Gevity Institute Study: Human Resource Management Practices And Firm Performance In Small Businesses: A Look At Differences Across Industries
March 26, 2007, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors look at the effects of three HR practice strategies on firm performance and examine potential differences in effects across industries. Overall, they found that employee...
Provided by ILR School, Cornell University
-
White Papers
Changing An Unfavorable Employment Reputation: A Longitudinal Examination
November 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
High information recruitment practices (e.g., personal communication from a recruiter) from both single and multiple sources were more effective for changing unfavorable employment reputation...
Provided by ILR School, Cornell University
-
White Papers
Why Do Leaders Matter? The Role Of Expert Knowledge
June 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Why do some leaders succeed while others fail? This question is important, but its complexity makes it hard to study systematically. The authors draw on a setting where there are well-defined...
Provided by ILR School, Cornell University
-
White Papers
Earnings Mobility In Times Of Growth And Decline: Argentina From 1996 To 2003
July 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
In recent years, the economy of Argentina has experienced both rapid economic growth and severe economic decline. In this paper, the authors use a series of one-year-long panels to study who...
Provided by ILR School, Cornell University
-
White Papers
Complexity-Based Agile Enterprises: Putting Self- Organizing Emergence To Work
January 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
Organizations competing in hypercompetitive marketplaces have two possible paths to potential success. They can attempt to transform traditional bureaucracies into more nimble, adaptable, and...
Provided by ILR School, Cornell University
-
White Papers
Labor Retrenchment Laws And Their Effect On Wages And Employment: A Theoretical Investigation
March 25, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Many countries have legislation which makes it costly for firms to dismiss or retrench workers. In the case of India, the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947, requires firms that employ 50 or more...
Provided by ILR School, Cornell University
-
White Papers
Social Unionism In Western New York: The Case Of The Economic Development Group
July 26, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The academic literature on union-community engagement - labor activity often called social unionism - has grown steadily since about 1980, an expansion paralleling a similar evolution in union...
Provided by ILR School, Cornell University
-
White Papers
The Human Resource Economics Of Vernon Briggs
June 12, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper examines the conception of Human Resource Economics (HRE) that shaped the career of Vernon M. Briggs Jr. It probes the history of economic thought to describe the intellectual roots of...
Provided by ILR School, Cornell University
-
White Papers
Employees' Choice Of Method Of Pay
February 27, 2009, 12:00am PST
Who chooses what type of pay? The costs and benefits of "Flexible" and "Cafeteria-style" benefit plans have been discussed for some time. Additionally, many papers have considered the potential...
Provided by ILR School, Cornell University
-
White Papers
Executive Pay And Firm Performance: Methodological Considerations And Future Directions
February 26, 2010, 12:00am PST
This paper is an investigation of the pay-for-performance link in executive compensation. In particular the authors document main issues in the pay-performance debate and explain practical issues...
Provided by ILR School, Cornell University
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