Lawler, Edward E, III

America at Work: Choices and Challenges Lawler, Edward E, III 2006 edition

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-348) and index. Review Quotes: "This illuminating collection will be an indispensable resource for scholars, working professionals, and policy-makers alike . . . All in all, this is the most readable, interesting, and useful resource on changes and challenges in the US workplace."--"CHOICE"Biographical Note: James O'Toole is a Research Professor in the Center for Effective Organizations, University of Southern California." "Edward E. Lawler has taught at Yale, University of Michigan, and the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California. Table of Contents: List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Foreword -- Part 1. Quality of Worklife of Americans -- 1. Working Alone: Whatever Happened to the Idea of Organizations as Communities? / Jeffrey Pfeffer -- 2. The Transformation of Work in America: New Health Vulnerabilities for American Workers / Richard H. Price -- 3. Restoring Voice at Work and in Society / Thomas A. Kochan -- 4. Work and Family in America: Growing Tensions between Employment Policy and a Transformed Workforce / Ellen Ernst Kossek -- 5. The Effects of New Work Practices on Workers / Michael J. Handel, David I. Levine -- 6. Trends in Jobs and Wages in the U. S. Economy / Alec Levenson -- Part 2. Careers in the New American Workplace -- 7. Is Education the Answer? Trends in the Supply and Demand for Skills in the U. S. Workforce / David Finegold -- 8. Bringing Careers Back in ... The Changing Landscape of Careers in American Corporations Today / Elizabeth F. Craig, Douglas T. Hall -- 9. The Shifting Risk for the American Worker in the Contemporary Employment Contract / Denise M. Rousseau -- 10. Itinerant Professionals: Technical Contractors in a Knowledge Economy / Stephen R. Barley, Gideon Kunda -- 11. The Changing Employment Circumstances of Managers / Paul Osterman -- 12. Changing Career Paths and their Implications / Peter Cappelli -- Part 3. Organizational Effectiveness -- 13. The Value of Innovative Human Resource Management Practices / Kathryn Shaw -- 14. The Economic Impact of Employee Behaviors on Organizational Performance / Wayne F. Cascio -- 15. Global Sourcing of Talent: Implications for the U. S. Workforce / Fred K. Foulkes, Sushil Vachani, Jennifer Zaslow -- 16. Shared Capitalism at Work: Impacts and Policy Options / Joseph Blasi, Douglas Kruse, Richard B. Freeman -- About the Contributors -- Notes -- Combined References -- Index.

Contributor Bio:  Lawler, Edward E, III Edward E. Lawler III is director of the Center for Effective Organizations at the University of Southern California (USC) and distinguished professor in the USC Marshall School of Business. Named one of the country's leading management experts by BusinessWeek magazine, Lawler is the recipient of?the top career achievement awards given by SHRM, ASTD, WorldatWork, and the Academy of Management. He is the author or coauthor of more than forty books, including The New American Workplace, HR Business Process Outsourcing, Treat People Right!, From the Ground Up, Rewarding Excellence, and most recently, Built to Change. His writings have appeared in the Harvard Business Review, Fortune, the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and the Financial Times, as well as many academic journals. Contributor Bio:  O'Toole, James James O'Toole is Associate Professor of History at Boston College. He is the author of Passing for White: Race, Religion, and the Healy Family, 1820-1920 and Militant and Triumphant: William Henry O'Connell and the Catholic Church in Boston, 1859-1944. David Quigley is Assistant Professor of History at Boston College. He is the author of Second Founding: New York City and the Reconstruction of American Democracy and coeditor (with David N. Gellman) of Jim Crow New York: A Documentary History of Race and Citizenship, 1777-1877. Thomas H. O'Connor is University Historian and Professor of History, Emeritus, at Boston College. His numerous books include Boston Catholics: A History of the Church and Its People; Civil War Boston: Home Front and Battlefield; The Boston Irish: A Political History; and The Hub: Boston Past and Present, all published by Northeastern University Press.