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Inducing Employees to Leave: A Comparison of Four Severance Options
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2013-03)
This study examines the demographic, economic, and psychographic characteristics of 324 blue‐collar workers who were offered four options for either retirement or severance from the organization. Consistent with previous ...
If HR were really strategically proactive: Present and future directions in HR's contribution to competitive advantage
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1999)
Current business conditions mandate greater competitive advantage from HR agendas and processes. To add greater competitive advantage, HR must contribute strategic value against criteria from customer and capital markets. ...
A Union-Management Cooperative Project To Improve the Quality of Work Life
(Sage Publications, 1977)
Treatment Teams that Work (and those that don't): An Application of Hackman's Group Effectiveness Model to Interdisciplinary Teams in Psychiatric Hospitals
(Sage Publications, 1995)
Recent studies of small work groups emphasize comprehensive models of team effectiveness. A survey-based operationalization of one such model, Hackman `s Model of Group Effectiveness (Hackman, 1987, 1990), is applied to ...
Acceptance and Quality of Solutions as Related to Leaders' Attitudes toward Disagreement in Group Problem Solving
(Sage Publications, 1965)
An experiment was designed to test the hypotheses that (1) disagreement in a discussion can lead either to hard feelings or to innovation depending upon the attitude of the discussion leader; and (2) acceptance will depend ...
Conducting Action Research: Relationships between Organization Members and Researchers
(Sage Publications, 1992)
Action research in an organizational setting draws researchers and the employees involved into a joint process aimed at meeting both research and intervention objectives. The active collaboration of participants has major ...
Interpersonal Compatibility and Workgroup Performance
(Sage Publications, 1975)
Schutz hypothesized in his theory of interpersonal relations that more interpersonally compatible groups will exhibit greater productivity. Until recently, this proposition has remained largely untested for workgroups. The ...
Dealing with Work Stress and Strain: Is the Perception of Support more Important than its Use?
(Sage Publications, 1988)
The authors conducted a study of the relationship between the perception and use of support in one's work environment and their effects on perceived stress and strain. The analytic sample consisted of 480 social workers ...
Higher knowledge for higher aspirations
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2005)
With escalating expectations and opportunities for HR professionals to add greater value comes the mandate for greater knowledge about the fundamental driving forces of business. Business leaders and employees increasingly ...