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: 8911608
• 负责人: David Knoke
• 金额: $ 17.98万
• 依托单位: University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
• 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=8911608&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、技术创新以及美国劳动力变化所带来的问题联系起来。 该研究利用了两个数据源：具有代表性的美国工人全国样本和雇用他们的组织的相应样本。 这将是首次针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首次针对具有全国代表性的美国工人样本收集全面数据。 这些数据库对于测试有关美国各地各种管理体系、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至关重要。 到目前为止，这一广泛的人力资源领域的信息主要来自对该国选定地区的独特类型组织的案例研究；目前还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。 本研究的主要研究者在该研究领域拥有丰富的经验； 他们都是国家科学基金会资助的试点研究的参与者，旨在解决如此广泛的全国工人和工作场所调查中涉及的一些技术问题。 这些试点研究仔细考虑了诸如替代抽样设计的充分性和代表性以及组织收集的数据的可靠性等基本问题。 目前的研究源于并建立在这些试点研究的结果之上。 组织有效性、竞争力和生产力问题是科学家和政策制定者都非常关心的问题。 这项研究应该为创新人力资源政策、组织和工人的特征以及工作条件之间的联系提供重要的新线索。