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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 ...
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 ...
The State of the HR Profession
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2013-05)
We want to create a new narrative about the human resource (HR) profession. HR professionals have often been plagued with self‐doubts, repeatedly re‐exploring HR's role, value, and competencies. If HR is to fully (and ...
Back to basics: Learning about employee energy and motivation from running on my treadmill
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2005)
In an effort to understand how to optimize employee energy at work, we borrow from the sports physiology literature to develop and test several concepts that have now been used in more than 75 large and small organizations ...
Setting people up for success: How the Portman Ritz-Carlton hotel gets the best from its people
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2006)
In China, where many multinational companies face a constant shortage of talent and high employee turnover, the Portman Ritz-Carlton Hotel has been able to attract, develop, and retain high-quality talent to deliver excellent ...
Radical HRM innovation and competitive advantage: The Moneyball story
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2006)
Moneyball (Lewis, 2003), a New York Times bestseller, is a book about baseball. When read through a broader lens, however, Moneyball is also a book about innovation, resistance to change, competitive advantage, achieving ...
The Construction of Preference in Engineering Design and Implications for Green Products
(2008)
This dissertation incorporates the construction of preference into engineering design methodology. Currently, engineers view customer preferences as existing a priori, evoking metaphors such as “need-finding.” For some ...