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From Control to Commitment in the Workplace: In Factory after Factory, There Is a Revolution Under Way in the Management of Work. Readings on Labor-Management Relations.
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Effects of human resource systems on manufacturing performance and turnover
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used an empirical taxonomy identifying two types of human resource systems, "control" and "commitment", to test the strategic human resource proposition that specific combinations of policies and practices are useful in predicting differences in performance and turnover across steel minimills.
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How Common is Workplace Transformation and Who Adopts it
TL;DR: The authors examined the incidence of innovative work practices (teams, job rotation, quality circles, and total quality management) and investigated what variables, including human resource practices, are associated with the adoption of these practices.
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Work teams applications and effectiveness
TL;DR: Work teams are defined as interdependent collections of individuals who share responsibility for specific outcomes for their organizations as discussed by the authors, and they have been used in many applications, such as advice and involvement, production and service, and action and negotiation.
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The Contagious Leader: Impact of the Leader's Mood on the Mood of Group Members, Group Affective Tone, and Group Processes.
TL;DR: When leaders were in a positive mood, in comparison to anegative mood, individual group members experienced more positive and less negative mood, and groups had a morepositive and a less negative affective tone.
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Effects of human resource systems on manufacturing performance and turnover
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used an empirical taxonomy identifying two types of human resource systems, "control" and "commitment", to test the strategic human resource proposition that specific combinations of policies and practices are useful in predicting differences in performance and turnover across steel minimills.
Journal ArticleDOI
How Common is Workplace Transformation and Who Adopts it
TL;DR: The authors examined the incidence of innovative work practices (teams, job rotation, quality circles, and total quality management) and investigated what variables, including human resource practices, are associated with the adoption of these practices.
Journal ArticleDOI
Work teams applications and effectiveness
TL;DR: Work teams are defined as interdependent collections of individuals who share responsibility for specific outcomes for their organizations as discussed by the authors, and they have been used in many applications, such as advice and involvement, production and service, and action and negotiation.
Journal ArticleDOI
The Contagious Leader: Impact of the Leader's Mood on the Mood of Group Members, Group Affective Tone, and Group Processes.
TL;DR: When leaders were in a positive mood, in comparison to anegative mood, individual group members experienced more positive and less negative mood, and groups had a morepositive and a less negative affective tone.
Culture as social control: Corporations, cults, and commitment.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the psychological mechanisms used to develop social control systems and demonstrate how similar these approaches are across a variety of strong culture settings, ranging from conventional organizations to more extreme examples ofcults and re1igk~us-seets.
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