Organizations in America

Analysing Their Structures and Human Resource Practices
1. Auflage 1996
ISBN: 978-0-8039-5815-9
Verlag: Sage Publications, Inc

Buch, Englisch, 398 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 728 g

Based on the findings of The National Organizations Study, Organizations in America provides a comprehensive review of the first national survey of organizations in the United States. Using a statistically representative sample, this work is the most authoritative database on the workings of organizations available. The principal investigators of the study use this data set to define what we know about the structures and human resource practices in American organizations and describes: - The National Organizations Study and its implications

- Specific employment practices--hiring, training, promotion, performance measurement, benefit packages, contingent work--and how they compare between different businesses and business sectors

- Differential treatment of employees according to ethnicity and gender This breakthrough publication is an indispensable reference tool for those in the areas of organizational studies, human resources, sociology of work, industrial psychology, social stratification, labor, and labor economics.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kalleberg, Arne L.

Knoke, David

Marsden, Peter V.

Kalleberg, Arne L

Spaeth, Joe L.

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Organisationstheorie, Organisationssoziologie, Organisationspsychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologische Disziplinen Wirtschafts-, Arbeits- und Organisationspsychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PART ONE: THE NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS STUDY
Organizational Properties and Practices - Arne L Kalleberg et al
Design of the National Organizations Study - Joe L Spaeth and Diane P O'Rourke
American Organizations and Their Environments - Peter V Marsden, Cynthia R Cook, and David Knoke
PART TWO: ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURES
Bureaucratic Structures for Coordination and Control - Peter V Marsden, Cynthia R Cook, and Arne L Kalleberg
Formalizing the Employment Relation - Arne L Kalleberg et al
Human Resource Management and Organizational Performance - Arne L Kalleberg and James W Moody
PART THREE: ORGANIZATIONS' HUMAN RESOURCE PRACTICES
The Staffing Process - Peter V Marsden
Recruitment and Selection Methods
Job Training in US Organizations - David Knoke and Arne L Kalleberg
Training, Unions, and Internal Labor Markets - David Knoke and Yoshito Ishio
Organizational Differences in Earnings - Arne L Kalleberg and Mark E Van Buren
The Structure of Organizational Earnings Inequality - Arne L Kalleberg and Mark E Van Buren
Cui Bono? Employee Benefit Packages - David Knoke
PART FOUR: ORGANIZATIONS AND THE CHANGING WORKFORCE
Contingent Employment in Organizations - Arne L Kalleberg and Kathryn Schmidt
Organizational Patterns of Gender Segregation - Donald Tomaskovic-Devey, Arne L Kalleberg, and Peter V Marsden
Gender Differences in Organizational Commitment - Peter V Marsden, Arne L Kalleberg, and Cynthia R Cook
Influences of Work Positions and Family Roles
Conclusions and Prospects - Arne L Kalleberg et al

Über Autor(innen)

Marsden, Peter V.
PETER V. MARSDEN is the Edith and Benjamin Geisinger Professor of Sociology at Harvard University. His research interests center on social organization, social networks, and survey research. He teaches about these subjects as well as on quantitative methods for data analysis. He received the Paul F. Lazarsfeld Award recognizing a career of distinguished contributions to methodology in sociology from the Section on Methodology of the American Sociological Association in 2016.

Marsden was a co-principal investigator of the General Social Survey between 1997 and 2015, and a lead investigator of three National Organizations Studies conducted between 1991 and 2003. He edited Social Trends in American Life: Findings from the General Social Survey since 1972 (Princeton University Press, 2012), which won the Book Award given by the American Association for Public Opinion Research in 2015. With James D. Wright, he edited the second edition of the Handbook of Survey Research (Emerald Group Publishing, 2010). His articles and chapters concentrate on studies of social networks—especially egocentric networks and their measurement—as well as work orientations, social trends, and issues in organizational analysis.

Knoke, David
David Knoke (Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1972) is a professor of sociology at the University of Minnesota, where he teaches and does research on diverse social networks, including political, economic, healthcare, intra- and interorganizational, and terrorist & counterterror networks. In addition to many articles and chapters, he has written seven books about networks: Network Analysis (1982, with James Kuklinski), The Organizational State (1985, with Edward Laumann), Political Networks (1990), Comparing Policy Networks (1996, with Franz Pappi, Jeffrey Broadbent, and Yutaka Tsujinaka), Changing Organizations (2001), Social Network Analysis (2008, with Song Yang), and Economic Networks (2012).