Hired hands or human resources?
Subtitle: case studies of HRM programs and practices in early American industry
By: Bruce E. Kaufman.
Contributors: Kaufman, Bruce E.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Ithaca
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780801448300
Subjects: Personnel management -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Case studies; Personnel management -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Case studies
Genres: Case studies
Notes: Companion volume to: Managing the human factor.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Early human resource management : context and history; title: HRM at the beginning : the Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy Railroad; title: Contrasting HRM strategies : Pullman and Baldwin; title: HRM and alternative systems of workforce governance; title: HRM in the industrial heartland I : the United States Steel Corporation; title: HRM in the industrial heartland II : the Ford Motor Company; title: Industrial Relations Counselors, Inc.; title: The human resource model in a welfare capitalism firm : the Top-Grade Oil Company; title: A high-road employer in a low-road industry : the Great Eastern Coal Company; title: The middle ground of HRM in the 1920s : the United Steel and Coal Company; title: Paternalism combined with decentralized and informal HRM : Mega-Watt Light and Power; title: The "hired hand" model in a large manufacturing firm : New Era Radio; title: HRM in the industrial heartland III : High-Beam Steel; title: The case studies : insights and lessons learned.