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Title America at work : choices and challenges / edited by Edward E. Lawler III and James O'Toole.

Imprint New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.

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 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  331.1 Am35 2006    ---  Available
Edition 1st ed.
Description viii, 355 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-348) and index.
Contents Working alone : whatever happened to the idea of organizations as communities? / Jeffrey Pfeffer -- Transformation of work in America : new health vulnerabilities for American workers / Richard H. Price -- Restoring voice at work and in society / Thomas A. Kochan -- Work and family in America : growing tensions between employment policy and a transformed work force / Ellen Ernst Kossek -- Effects of new work practices on workers / Michael J. Handel and David I. Levine -- Trends in jobs and wages in the U.S. economy / Alec Levenson -- Is education the answer? : trends in the supply and demand for skills in the U.S. workforce / David Finegold -- Bringing careers back in ... the challenging landscape of careers in American corporations today / Elizabeth F. Craig and Douglas T. Hall -- Shifting risk for the American worker in the contemporary employment contract / Denise M. Rousseau.
Itinerant professionals : technical contractors in a knowledge economy / Stephen R. Barley and Gideon Kunda -- Challenging employment circumstances of managers / Paul Osterman -- Changing career paths and their implications / Peter Cappelli -- Value of innovative human resource management practices / Kathryn Shaw -- Economic impact of employee behaviors on organizational performance / Wayne F. Cascio -- Global sourcing of talent : implications for the U.S. workforce / Fred K. Foulkes, Sushil Vachani, and Jennifer Zaslow -- Shared capitalism at work : impacts and policy options / Joseph Blasi, Douglas Kruse and Richard B. Freeman.
Subject Quality of work life -- United States.
Work -- Social aspects -- United States.
Career changes -- United States.
Personnel management -- United States.
Added Author Lawler, Edward E., III.
O'Toole, James.
ISBN 1403972974
9781403972972
Standard No. YDXCP 2255966
IG# 1403972974
NLGGC 292124740

 
    
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