Organization Studies articles from December 1997

Organization Studies archives from December 1997

Organizing employment for high performance: theories, evidence and policy.(Special Issue on Organizing Employment for High Performance)
December 22, 1997... Introduction In recent years there have been major changes in the way in which employment is organized. Of special importance have been the growth of a range of practices under the heading of 'human resource management', the introduction of...

Micro-macro linkages in high-performance employment systems.(Special Issue on Organizing Employment for High Performance)
December 22, 1997... Introduction The literature on high-performance workplace organizations frequently takes as its model a set of Japanese management practices that are said to be best practice and therefore represent prescriptions for business policy. These...

High-performance manufacturing: evidence from the automotive components industry.(Special Issue on Organizing Employment for High Performance)
December 22, 1997... Introduction and Issues This paper examines the hypothesis that lean production practices necessarily lead to high manufacturing performance and contributes to the emergent literature that attempts to establish the empirical relationship...

Bouquets, brickbats and blinkers: total quality management and employee involvement in practice.(Special Issue on Organizing Employment for High Performance)
December 22, 1997... Introduction There is a basic ambiguity in Total Quality Management (TQM) in that, while managers seek the commitment and co-operation of their employees, increased control over the work process is a cornerstone of TQM. This ambiguity is...

Unions, flexibility, team working and financial performance. (includes appendix)(Special Issue on Organizing Employment for High Performance)
December 22, 1997... Introduction Recent years have seen the introduction of a wide range of innovative human resource management practices by firms in their attempt to attain and sustain competitive advantage in increasingly complex product markets. Among the...

The role of national context and HR strategy in shaping training and development practice in French and U.K. organizations.(Special Issue on Organizing Employment for High Performance)
December 22, 1997... Introduction This paper reports a comparative analysis of French and U.K. companies as a means of examining how national context and organizational factors influence the management of employee development. The relative importance of national...

Human resource policies and company performance: a quantitative approach using longitudinal data. (includes appendix)(Special Issue on Organizing Employment for High Performance)
December 22, 1997... Introduction From an outside perspective, human resource management issues are difficult to decipher. Despite a mushrooming of books and significant theoretical developments, it seems that the notion of HRM is still an umbrella term associated...