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Employing Bureaucracy - Managers, Unions, and the Transformation of Work in the 20th Century, Revised Edition (Hardcover,... Employing Bureaucracy - Managers, Unions, and the Transformation of Work in the 20th Century, Revised Edition (Hardcover, Revised Ed)
Sanford M. Jacoby
R5,114 Discovery Miles 51 140 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Deftly blending social and business history with economic analysis, "Employing Bureaucracy" shows how the American workplace shifted from a market-oriented system to a bureaucratic one over the course of the 20th century. Jacoby explains how an unstable, haphazard employment relationship evolved into one that was more enduring, equitable, and career-oriented. This revised edition presents a new analysis of recent efforts to re-establish a market orientation in the workplace.
This book is a definitive history of the human resource management profession in the United States, showing its diverse roots in engineering, welfare work, and vocational guidance. It explores the recurring tension between the new professional order and traditional line management. Using a variety of sources, Jacoby analyzes the complex relations between personnel managers, labor unions, and government from the late 19th century to the present.
"Employing Bureaucracy: "
*analyzes the origins of the modern employment relationship's distinctive features;
*combines a variety of disciplinary perspectives, from business and labor history to economics, sociology, and management;
*shows the transformation of the American workplace over the course of the 20th century, from market-oriented to bureaucratic to recent efforts to move back to a market orientation; and
*provides the single-best and most sophisticated history of the origins and development of the modern "HR" profession.
For historians, social scientists, and practitioners, this book is a readable and rewarding study. With the future of work currently under debate, it is critical that the historical process that produced the modernAmerican workplace is understood.
Read the "Workforce Management Magazine" review about "Employing Bureaucracy" at www.erlbaum.com.

Employing Bureaucracy - Managers, Unions, and the Transformation of Work in the 20th Century, Revised Edition (Paperback,... Employing Bureaucracy - Managers, Unions, and the Transformation of Work in the 20th Century, Revised Edition (Paperback, Revised Ed)
Sanford M. Jacoby
R1,875 Discovery Miles 18 750 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Deftly blending social and business history with economic analysis, "Employing Bureaucracy" shows how the American workplace shifted from a market-oriented system to a bureaucratic one over the course of the 20th century. Jacoby explains how an unstable, haphazard employment relationship evolved into one that was more enduring, equitable, and career-oriented. This revised edition presents a new analysis of recent efforts to re-establish a market orientation in the workplace.
This book is a definitive history of the human resource management profession in the United States, showing its diverse roots in engineering, welfare work, and vocational guidance. It explores the recurring tension between the new professional order and traditional line management. Using a variety of sources, Jacoby analyzes the complex relations between personnel managers, labor unions, and government from the late 19th century to the present.
"Employing Bureaucracy: "
*analyzes the origins of the modern employment relationship's distinctive features;
*combines a variety of disciplinary perspectives, from business and labor history to economics, sociology, and management;
*shows the transformation of the American workplace over the course of the 20th century, from market-oriented to bureaucratic to recent efforts to move back to a market orientation; and
*provides the single-best and most sophisticated history of the origins and development of the modern "HR" profession.
For historians, social scientists, and practitioners, this book is a readable and rewarding study. With the future of work currently under debate, it is critical that the historical process that produced the modernAmerican workplace is understood.
Read the "Workforce Management Magazine" review about "Employing Bureaucracy" at www.erlbaum.com.

The Workers of Nations - Industrial Relations in a Global Economy (Hardcover): Sanford M. Jacoby The Workers of Nations - Industrial Relations in a Global Economy (Hardcover)
Sanford M. Jacoby
R1,223 Discovery Miles 12 230 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The new international economy is today the single most important factor shaping relations between employers, unions, and governments in the world's advanced industrial societies. While companies compete in global markets with firms around the world, workers remain fixed in each country and are influenced by local customs and institutions. mores. This book explores how globalization affects the contemporary workplace and how workplace policies can make nations more internationally competitive. Unlike other country-by-country treatments of the subject, this analysis compares and contrasts the experiences of different nations around important developments, such as the labor market consequences of regional trading pacts, the international diffusion of new forms of work organization, and the strategies that nations are pursuing to keep their work systems competitive. The contributors come from a variety of disciplines but all bear expertise in international industrial relations.

The Embedded Corporation - Corporate Governance and Employment Relations in Japan and the United States (Paperback, Revised... The Embedded Corporation - Corporate Governance and Employment Relations in Japan and the United States (Paperback, Revised edition)
Sanford M. Jacoby
R1,101 Discovery Miles 11 010 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Is there one best way to run the modern business corporation? What is the appropriate balance between shareholders, executives, and employees? These questions are being vigorously debated as layoffs, scandals, and restructurings rattle companies around the world. The common assumption is that globalization is merging the varieties of corporate capitalism. Yet, as this book shows, corporations in Japan and the United States are responding differently to the pressures unleashed by globalization. In "The Embedded Corporation," Sanford Jacoby traces this diversity to national differences in economic history and social norms, and, paradoxically, to global competition itself.

The book's vantage point for exploring the varieties of capitalism is the human resource departments of large corporations, where changes in markets and technology turn into corporate labor policies affecting millions of workers. Despite some cross-fertilization, Japanese and American corporations maintain distinctive approaches to human resource management, which has important consequences for how firms compete, for corporate governance, and even for the level of inequality in Japan and the United States.

"The Embedded Corporation" is a major contribution to our understanding of comparative management and the relationship between business, society, and the global economy.

Labor in the Age of Finance - Pensions, Politics, and Corporations from Deindustrialization to Dodd-Frank (Hardcover): Sanford... Labor in the Age of Finance - Pensions, Politics, and Corporations from Deindustrialization to Dodd-Frank (Hardcover)
Sanford M. Jacoby
R1,032 Discovery Miles 10 320 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

From award-winning economic historian Sanford M. Jacoby, a fascinating and important study of the labor movement and shareholder capitalism Since the 1970s, American unions have shrunk dramatically, as has their economic clout. Labor in the Age of Finance traces the search for new sources of power, showing how unions turned financialization to their advantage. Sanford Jacoby catalogs the array of allies and finance-based tactics labor deployed to stanch membership losses in the private sector. By leveraging pension capital, unions restructured corporate governance around issues like executive pay and accountability. In Congress, they drew on their political influence to press for corporate reforms in the wake of business scandals and the financial crisis. The effort restrained imperial CEOs but could not bridge the divide between workers and owners. Wages lagged behind investor returns, feeding the inequality identified by Occupy Wall Street. And labor's slide continued. A compelling blend of history, economics, and politics, Labor in the Age of Finance explores the paradox of capital bestowing power to labor in the tumultuous era of Enron, Lehman Brothers, and Dodd-Frank.

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