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Showing 1 to 20 of 104 for “"Industrial and Labor Relations"”.
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Les discours sur l'équité salariale au Québec: Enjeux politique et théorique
… d'acteurs impliquées dans le processus d'élaboration de la Loi québécoise en équité salariale (LES). En second lieu, la thèse vise à éclaircir dans quelle mesure la LES peut être décrite comme le reflet des discours portés par les différents acteurs présents aux audiences publiques d'août …
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Factors Associated With Food-Industry Discrimination Related to the Hiring and Retention of Persons With HIV/AIDS
… against gay men or intravenous drug users, and other reasons. One industrial sector where such discrimination appears to be widespread is the food-service industry. Many employers in food-service establishments believe that the known or rumored presence of an infected worker in their …
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Employee Communication and Its Relation to Work Creativity: The Role of Relational Demography in Egocentric Networks
… have argued that the exchange of knowledge and information through communication can enhance employee creativity. However, previous research has yielded inconsistent and inconclusive results with some studies suggesting that communication has positive effects on employee creativity and other …
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High Performance Work Practices, National Culture, and Knowledge Transfer Within U.S. Multinational Corporations
Based on organizational learning theory and resource-based view, I proposed a new theoretical model to understand how high performance work practices influence knowledge transfer within U.S. MNCs. Exploration and exploitation as two types of learning capabilities provided the theoretical basis for …
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Constitutive Relations Among Conflict, Power, and Change in Complex Organizations: An Ethnographic Study of a Government Research and Development Laboratory
… was a contextualized investigation of conflict and its interconnectedness with power and change in a complex hierarchical organization. Three kinds of data were collected: observation of groups involved with implementing a planned change effort, interviews with members of the organization, and …
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Generative Concern: Its Relationship to Job Satisfaction and Intention to Remain Among the Child Care Workforce
… the developmental needs of these providers and include supports that will enable providers to express their generative needs and concerns within their occupation.
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Labor's New Deal for Journalism---the Newspaper Guild in the 1930s
The Depression and the New Deal brought together a variety of conditions and social forces that set up a formative clash over the institution of professional journalism. At the heart of that fight was the rise of the American Newspaper Guild and its battle for control over the trusteeship of the …
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Unemployment, Job Insecurity and Health: A Survey of Post-Unification Germany
Previous research in sociology and epidemiology has shown strong adverse effects of unemployment on physical and psychological health. However, this research has two major limitations. First, researchers have ignored the effects of potential unemployment--job insecurity--and how its effects may …
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Shop Floor Politics Under Socialism: Worker Identity, Rationalization, and Company Culture in (East) Germany, 1920--1996
… the end of World War I through the period of deindustrialization after German reunification in the 1990s, it traces the efforts of company managers to modernize the German shop floor, the ways in which the working class cooperated with, rejected, or negated such strategies, and how diverse …
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Shades of Red: The Communist Party and Chicago's Workers, 1928-1939
… the Communist party from a strictly national and institutional perspective and who emphasized the Comintern's unilateral ability to enforce its teachings through party lines. By focusing on experience of Chicago's communists, who included a large working class, African-American and ethnic …
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"""Horny -Handed Sons of Toil"": Workers, Politics, and Religion in Augusta, Georgia, 1880--1910"
… of electoral fraud, internal division, and race baiting, to electoral failure in the 1890s. The party was replaced in the city by the Cracker Party, which based its success on a new platform of white supremacy, anti-Catholicism and anti-Semitism. The dissertation concludes by uncovering …
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Contesting the Terms of Incorporation: Labor and the State in Rio De Janeiro, 1930--1964
… fifteen years in which politicians courted urban labor as an important political constituency. Looking at, respectively, the internal dynamics of Rio's metalworkers' union, labor's new agenda and the strategies used by Rio's workers to implement it, and the national efforts to create new types of …
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Job Attitudes: Tests of Utility and Position
… the value of the use of facet scores, and the mediational nature of job attitudes. Study 1 uses meta-analytic data to examine the discriminant validity of four frequently examined constructs that are related to employees' attitudes toward and evaluations of their job situations: justice …
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Judgments and Selections of Blacks and Whites: The Use of Behavioral and Non-Behavioral Information Under Scarce Hiring Resources
Sixty Blacks and 68 Whites role-played as supervisors in a company who depended on their subordinates for performance outcomes. Participants first judged Black and White applicants with either consistent (i.e., all Bs) or inconsistent (i.e., As and Cs) grades on 6 courses. Then they selected …
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Anger and Aggression in Organizations: Antecedents, Behavioral Components, and Consequences
Antecedents, behavioral components, and outcomes of aggression in organizations were studied via questionnaires (n = 366), structured interviews (n = 74), and specific incident reports (n = 118). Data obtained from employees in three organizations assessed organizational and individual differences …
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Universal Empowerment: A Qualitative Exploration of Contributing and Defining Factors of Cognitive Empowerment of Middle Managers
… developed as a model which builds on the Thomas and Velthouse Model (1990) and is an extension of the Siitonen and Robinson Model (1998). It was named because of its physical characteristics and inclusiveness, not because it makes any claims to being an ultimate definition of empowerment. In …
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Prejudice Formation Toward Minorities by Police Officers in the Workplace
… the formation of prejudice among officers and if they believe that their experiences on the job have changed the way they view minorities. Twenty police officers were interviewed in-depth, in-person interviews using an interview guide. The data is presented in qualitatively along with …
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The Relationship Between Shared Work Values and Interpersonal Trust Among Individuals in Selected Work Settings
Trust in the workplace was also confirmed as a phenomenon which exists at an individual, between-person level in existing workplaces. Additionally, across all the collective coworkers at each organization, interpersonal trust was viewed as a dependent variable for the examination of differences …
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