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

本研究探讨了人力资源政策的变化， 在美国的工作组织，有关这些 生产力、技术创新、 以及美国劳动力变化带来的问题。 的 研究利用两个数据来源：一个代表性的 美国工人的全国样本和相应的 雇用他们的组织的样本。 这将代表 第一次收集数据时， 具有全国代表性的工作单位抽样，以及 自1977年就业质量调查以来， 全面的数据将被收集在一个 美国工人的全国代表性样本。 这些 数据库对于检验关于以下问题的重要假设至关重要： 在美国， 各种管理系统、招聘和留用 政策、培训计划和劳资关系 实践 到目前为止，在这个广泛的人类信息 资源领域主要来自案例研究 在选定的部分地区的不同类型的组织 国家;没有全面的描述， 评估美国的人力资源政策和实践。S. 工作组织。 主要研究人员在此 研究所在这一研究领域有着广泛经验; 所有人都是国家资助的试点研究的参与者， 科学基金会，以解决一些技术问题， 参与了如此广泛的全国性工人和工作调查， 机构。 这些试点研究经过仔细考虑， 充分性和代表性等基本问题 替代抽样设计和数据的可靠性 收集到的组织。 目前的研究成果 这些试验性研究的结果的基础上。 组织效率、竞争力和 生产力是科学家和 政策制定者。 这项研究应该为以下方面提供重要的新线索： 创新的人力资源政策、 组织和工人的特点， 工作开展的条件。

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.