The Operation of Internal Labor Markets: Staffing Practices and Vacancy Chains - Couverture souple

Pinfield, Lawrence T. T.

 
9781489910219: The Operation of Internal Labor Markets: Staffing Practices and Vacancy Chains

Synopsis

Employment systems consist of complex arrays of formal and informal rules that structure the relationships between employees and employers. There are many different types of employment systems. Some are specified in considerable detail in collectively bargained quasilegal employment contracts, while others are left to discretion. This book describes the latter type of employment system-one in which there is an active market for knowl- edge and skills. This is the salaried employment system of ForestCo-a large multiplant manufacturing company in the forest products industry. Here, supervisors and managers actively adjust the jobs and persons under their authority to meet the market, social, and institutional forces that influence the activities and performance of their departments. The study of employment systems is a relatively recent phenomenon, and few prior studies or theories were found to guide this investigation. Neither the scope nor the components of employment system studies are yet established. The field is confused and contested. Nevertheless, there is related literature which can be used to focus attention on different features of employment systems. One emerging body of work that holds the most promise for the study of employment systems is internal labor market (lLM) theory.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

This well-illustrated resource describes the internal labor market (Ilm) for the salaried employees of a large manufacturing firm. The author examines the Ilm from three interdependent perspectives: that of the firm as a whole; the vacancy chains or sequences of linked staffing actions inside the firm; and the factors which influence individual staffing decisions and actions. Chapters illustrate how a competitive and dynamic employment system facilitates organizational adaptation and change.

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9780306450464: The Operation of Internal Labor Markets: Staffing Practices and Vacancy Chains

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0306450461 ISBN 13 :  9780306450464
Editeur : Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 1995
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