Collaborative Research: U.S. Organizations' Human Resource Policies

合作研究：美国组织的人力资源政策

• 批准号: 8911371
• 负责人: Arne Kalleberg
• 金额: $ 10.19万
• 依托单位: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 1989
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1989-08-01 至 1994-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=8911371&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; U.S.; Organizations; Human

This study examines variations in human resource policies in work organizations in the United States, relating these policies to issues of productivity, technological innovation, and problems posed by a changing American labor force. The research draws on two data sources: a representative national sample of American workers and a corresponding sample of organizations employing them. This will represent the first instance that data will have been collected on a nationally representative sample of work establishments, and the first time since the 1977 Quality of Employment Survey that comprehensive data will have been collected on a nationally representative sample of American workers. These data bases are essential to test important hypotheses about the prevalence and variation throughout the United States of various management systems, recruitment and retention policies, training programs, and industrial relations practices. Until now information in this broad human resource area has been available primarily from case studies of distinctive types of organizations in selected parts of the country; there has been no comprehensive description and assessment of human resource policies and practices in U. S. work organizations. The Principal Investigators in this study have had extensive experience in this area of research; all were participants in pilot studies funded by the National Science Foundation, to address some of the technical problems involved in such a broad national survey of workers and work establishments. These pilot studies carefully considered such basic problems as the adequacy and representativeness of alternative sampling designs and the reliability of data collected on organizations. The present research grows out of and builds upon the findings of these pilot studies. Issues of organizational effectiveness, competitiveness, and productivity are of vital concern to both scientists and policy makers. This study should shed important new light on the links between innovative human resources policies, the characteristics of organizations and workers, and the conditions under which work is performed.

本研究考察了美国工作组织中人力资源政策的变化，将这些政策与生产力、技术创新和美国劳动力变化所带来的问题联系起来。这项研究利用了两个数据来源：一个是美国工人的代表性国家样本，另一个是雇佣他们的相应组织样本。这将是第一次对具有全国代表性的工作机构样本收集数据，也是自1977年就业质量调查以来第一次对具有全国代表性的美国工人样本收集全面数据。这些数据库对于检验关于美国各种管理制度、招聘和保留政策、培训计划和劳资关系实践的普遍性和变化的重要假设是必不可少的。迄今为止，这一广泛人力资源领域的资料主要来自对该国选定地区不同类型组织的个案研究；没有对美国工作组织的人力资源政策和实践进行全面的描述和评估。本研究的主要研究人员在该研究领域拥有丰富的经验；所有人都参加了由美国国家科学基金会资助的试点研究，以解决如此广泛的全国工人和工作场所调查所涉及的一些技术问题。这些试点研究仔细考虑了一些基本问题，如替代性抽样设计的充分性和代表性，以及收集的组织数据的可靠性。目前的研究是在这些初步研究结果的基础上发展起来的。组织效率、竞争力和生产力问题是科学家和决策者至关重要的问题。这项研究应该对创新的人力资源政策、组织和工人的特点以及开展工作的条件之间的联系提供重要的新线索。