摘要:

This study uses data on the personnel policies and economic characteristics of businesses in the manufacturing sector to measure the impact of formal training programs on labor productivity. The major finding is that businesses that were operating below their expected labor productivity levels in 1983 implemented new employee training programs after 1983 that resulted in significantly larger increases in labor productivity growth between 1983 and 1986. This higher rate of productivity growth was sufficient to bring these businesses up to the labor productivity levels of comparable businesses by 1986.

ISSN:0019-8676    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-232X.1994.tb00349.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1994

数据来源: WILEY

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We evaluate the use of firm‐level union coverage rates in empirical models of firm behavior and performance. We focus on the potential for measurement error in both firm‐ and industry‐level data, and find that firm‐level union coverage rates provide more precise estimates of union effects. Higher union coverage at a firm is associated with slower employment and sales growth, decreased productivity in nonmanufacturing firms, increased productivity in manufacturing firms, lower profitability, and less investment in durable assets, such as research and deve

ISSN:0019-8676    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-232X.1994.tb00350.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1994

数据来源: WILEY

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Profit sharing potentially augments productivity by affecting motivational variables that promote group norms favoring effort. A factor augmentation model of production is developed to measure the impact of profit sharing on productivity using a test industry in U.S. manufacturing. The model is applied using alternative exogenous and endogenous specifications for the profit‐sharing incentive variable. The results are consistent with those obtained in other recent studies and suggest that profit sharing results in improvements in productivit

ISSN:0019-8676    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-232X.1994.tb00351.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1994

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0019-8676    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-232X.1994.tb00352.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1994

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0019-8676    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-232X.1994.tb00353.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1994

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0019-8676    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-232X.1994.tb00354.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1994

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

This study tests the competing arguments that organization‐level turnover is positively associated with organizational inefficiency or, alternatively, positively related to organizational inefficiency only in those organizations experiencing very high or very low turnover. Findings from multivariate analyses support the former argument: in a national sample of 333 hospitals, turnover among registered nurses was found to be associated in a positive linear fashion with both nonpersonnel operating and personnel costs per adjusted inpatient da

ISSN:0019-8676    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-232X.1994.tb00355.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1994

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

Activist Unionism: The Institutional Economics of Solomon Barkin.By Donald R. StabileCitizen Worker: The Experience of Workers in the United States with Democracy and the Free Market during the Nineteenth Century.By David Montgomery.Collective Bargaining As an Instrument of Social Change.By David C. Jacobs.Forging Revolution: Metalworkers, Managers, and the State in St. Petersburg, 1890–1914. By Heather Hogan.The Global Economic Mismatch: High Technology and Low Pay.By Henry B. Schechter.Industrial Democracy in Europe Revisited.By the Industrial Democracy in Europe (IDE), International Research Group.Labor and an Integrated Europe.Edited by Lloyd Ulman, Barry Eichengreen, and William T. Dickens.A Primer on American Labor Law.Third edition. By William Gould IV.Planning for Change: Industrial Policy and Japanese Economic Development, 1945–1990.By James Vestal.Sexual Harassment in the Workplace: Managing Corporate Policy.By Julie Tamminen.Workers and Working Classes in the Middle East: Struggles, Histories, Historiographies. Edited by Zachary Lock

ISSN:0019-8676    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-232X.1994.tb00356.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1994

数据来源: WILEY