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The Employment Relationship

Causes and Consequences of Modern Personnel Administration

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  • © 1994

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Authors:
  1. William P. Bridges

    1. University of Illinois, Chicago

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  2. Wayne J. Villemez

    1. University of Connecticut, Storrs

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Part of the book series: Springer Studies in Work and Industry (SSWI)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction

    Pages 1-28

  3. Assembling Data on Employment Relations

    Pages 29-51

  4. The Elements of Bureaucratic Personnel Management

    Pages 53-70

  5. The Scope of Bureaucratic Management

    Pages 71-102

  6. Higher-Level Effects on Bureaucratic Control and Due Process in Organizations

    Pages 103-124

  7. Bureaucratic Structure and Attachment to Firms

    Pages 125-160

  8. Employment Relations and Earnings

    Pages 161-176

  9. Conclusion

    Pages 177-193

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 195-243
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About this book

In 1979, serious research was just beginning on the connections between stratification outcomes and organizations. Data suitable for investigating these connections were scarce, and the general wisdom was that they would remain scarce--since organizational case studies were seen as the only means of gathering linked individual and organizational data. The case study approach does allow one to link the two types of data, but gathering such data on more than a few organizations is prohibitively expensive and difficult, and having only a few organizations limits g- eralizability. To help solve this problem, we developed the idea of a survey of a random sample of several thousand employed individuals, followed by a second survey of their several thousand employing or- nizations. This method, we reasoned, would provide us with a gen- alizable, simple random sample of individuals, coupled with a weighted random sample of organizations (weighted, of course, by size of orga- zation). An added benefit would be that these valuable data could be gathered by a survey organization for the price of two simple surveys. It was not an easy idea to sell. We developed it into a proposal to the National Science Foundation (NSF), and though the reviewers were o- erwise sympathetic, they were almost unanimous in their contention that such a survey would not work because "obviously" the great maj- ity of respondents would refuse to reveal exactly who their employers were.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Illinois, Chicago

    William P. Bridges

  • University of Connecticut, Storrs

    Wayne J. Villemez

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Employment Relationship

  • Book Subtitle: Causes and Consequences of Modern Personnel Administration

  • Authors: William P. Bridges, Wayne J. Villemez

  • Series Title: Springer Studies in Work and Industry

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/b102409

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1994

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-44744-0Published: 30 November 1994

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4757-7007-0Published: 26 April 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-585-34291-7Published: 27 August 2007

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 243

  • Topics: Business and Management, general, Political Science, Sociology, general

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