How Common is Workplace Transformation and Who Adopts it?
- P. Osterman
- Business
- 1 January 1994
The author, using data on 694 U.S. manufacturing establishments from a 1992 survey, examines the incidence of innovative work practices (teams, job rotation, quality circles, and Total Quality…
Work Reorganization in an Era of Restructuring: Trends in Diffusion and Effects on Employee Welfare
- P. Osterman
- Business
- 1 January 2000
High Performance Work Organizations (HPWOs) took root in the early 1990s but then faced an environment of organizational turmoil and restructuring. This paper, drawing on a second-round survey of…
Work Family Programs and the Employment Relationship
- P. Osterman
- Business
- 1 December 1995
This research was supported by the Spencer Foundation. I am grateful to Rose Batt for superb research assistance and to Lotte Bailyn, Steve Barley, Peter Cappelli, David Knoke, and Maureen Scully for…
The Mutual Gains Enterprise: Forging a Winning Partnership among Labor, Management, and Government
- L. Markowitz, T. Kochan, P. Osterman
- Economics, Political Science
- 1986
Human resources, national competitiveness and employee welfare the mutual gains enterprise choice and diffusion of mutual gains strategies human resources and organizational governance the role of…
The Wage Effects of High Performance Work Organization in Manufacturing
- P. Osterman
- Business, Economics
- 1 January 2006
An unresolved question about now-widespread innovative work systems such as teams and quality programs is whether they influence wage determination. This study examines that possible association in…
Skill, Training, and Work Organization in American Establishments
- P. Osterman
- Education
- 1 April 1995
Change at Work
- P. Cappelli, Laurie J. Bassi, H. Katz, D. Knoke, P. Osterman, M. Useem
- Business
- 27 February 1997
This book illuminates what is really happening in the American workplace. The contributors explain how the widespread restructuring of American firms-usually resulting in a reduction of the workforce…
Employment Futures: Reorganization, Dislocation, and Public Policy
- P. Osterman
- Economics
- 1 December 1989
American industry, in meeting the challenge of foreign competition, has experienced a paradoxical change in labour relations. On the one hand, firms have stressed worker involvement and commitment;…
The Truth About Middle Managers: Who They Are, How They Work, Why They Matter
- P. Osterman
- Business, Biology
- 27 January 2009
This book discusses the shifting Context of Middle Management and the work that middle managers do and doesn't do, and the importance of having a clear vision of what that work should and shouldn't be.
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