The American workplace
Subtitle: skills, compensation, and employee involvement
By: edited by Casey Ichniowski ... [et al.].
Contributors: Ichniowski, Casey.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 287
Subjects: Industrial management -- United States; Organizational effectiveness -- United States; Management -- Employee participation -- United States; Creative ability in business -- United States
Description: "This volume contributes to a growing consensus about effective workplace practices. The volume combines detailed studies of single industries (automobile assembly, apparel, and machine tools) with cross-industry studies of financial performance. Compared with most past investigations, the research described here has better measures of both workplace practices and organizational performance.

The contributors find that systems of innovative human resource management practices can have large effects on business performance. Success comes not from any single innovation, but from a coherent system encompassing pay, training, and employee involvement."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes also four articles of which were first presented at a January 1995 conference.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: What works at work: overview and assessment / Casey Ichniowski ... [et al.]; title: Diffusion and performance of modular production in the U.S. apparel industry / John T. Dunlop and David Weil; title: Modular production: improving performance in the apparel industry / Peter Berg ... [et al.]; title: The participatory bureaucracy: a structural explanation for the effects of group-based employee participation programs on productivity in the machined products sector / Maryellen R. Kelley; title: Methodological issues in cross-sectional and panel estimates of the link between human resource strategies and firm performance / Mark A. Huselid and Brian E. Becker; title: The adoption of high-involvement work practices / Frits K. Pil and John Paul MacDuffie; title: The effects of total quality management on corporate performance: an empirical investigation / George S. Easton and Sherry L. Jarrell; title: Implementing effective total quality management programs and financial performance: a synthesis of evidence from  quality award winners / Kevin B. Hendricks and Vinod R. Singhal; title: Public policy implications / David I. Levine.