Overview

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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Author:   Lawrence T. Pinfield
Publisher:   Springer Science+Business Media
Imprint:   Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers
Edition:   1995 ed.
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 25.40cm
Weight:   2.050kg
ISBN:  

9780306450464

ISBN 10:   0306450461
Pages:   356
Publication Date:   30 September 1995
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

I. An Introduction to Internal Labor Markets.- 1 The Operation of Internal Labor Markets: Staffing Practices and Vacancy Chains.- 2 ForestCo: Frame for an Internal Labor Market.- II. Vacancy Chain Perspectives on Internal Labor Markets.- 3 Vacancy Chains as Bundles of Staffing Actions.- 4 Minimal Vacancy Chains.- 5 Medium-Length Vacancy Chains.- 6 Long Vacancy Chains.- III. Staffing Action Perspectives on Internal Labor Markets.- 7 Staffing Practices as Internal Labor Market Processes: Internal Labor Markets as Contexts for Staffing.- 8 Staffing as an Administered Process.- 9 Organizational Staffing and the Posting Process.- 10 Criteria Used to Evaluate Different Candidates.- 11 Postselection Considerations of Staffing.- IV. Summary and Review.- 12 The Operation of Internal Labor Markets: Summary and Review.- References.

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