Oxford Handbook of Human Resource Management

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manufacturing operations, looking in particular to beneWt from lower labor costs. These MNCs have also had to contend with the e ...

Such developments have led to recognition that employment systems are increasingly centered on the organization rather than on a ...

20.2 Workers in Contemporary Manufacturing ..................................................................................... ...

HR practices, increases organizational performance, but the exact nature of such relationships remains unclear (for recent revie ...

eVort through a variety of HR practices which are deemed to support the employ- ment relationship and encourage worker participa ...

respective plants in securing worker commitment and identiWcation with theWrm and thus run contrary to the generic argument of p ...

system over detailed analysis of the nature of work organization and employment relations.^6 With the success of Japanese corpor ...

of teams, job rotation, job design, etc. More recently there have been attempts to evaluate thecombinedeVect of such practices. ...

Arguments in favor of skill development and employee involvement can be linked to a developing interest in the concept of ‘human ...

performance of individualWrms. Variations of such results have been found in a number of diVerent manufacturing industry sectors ...

opportunity for the innovative continuous improvement activities anticipated by Kenney and Florida ( 1993 ) and others. This is ...

manufacturing model. A recent international empirical study of the auto and telecommunications industries by Katz and Darbishire ...

1 Manufacturing Knowledge? Our review of the evidence on contemporary manufacturing suggests expectations of highly skille ...

The extent to which communities of practice can be created and managed has recently become the focus of considerable attention a ...

seem pertinent (for a recent review see Martin 2003 ). Moreover, at a fundamental level of analysis, there are developments and ...

undertake commitment and trust-building measures in the employment relation- ship’ (Thompson 2003 : 363 ). UnfulWlled or exploit ...

suggests at best a mixed picture in terms of both HPWS implementation and its outcomes. The fragmented, disconnected, and contra ...

Barker,J. ( 1993 ). ‘Tightening the Iron Cage: Concertive Control in Self Managing Teams.’ Administrative Science Quarterly, 38 ...

Delaney,J., and Huselid,M. ( 1996 ). ‘The Impact of Human Resource Management Practices on Perceptions of Organizational Perform ...