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Adoption and Termination of Employee Involvement Programs
Author(s) -
Chi Wei,
Freeman Richard B.,
Kleiner Morris M.
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
labour
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.403
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 1467-9914
pISSN - 1121-7081
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9914.2010.00510.x
Subject(s) - business , affect (linguistics) , human resources , human resource management , survey data collection , marketing , resource (disambiguation) , relation (database) , industrial relations , economics , management , psychology , communication , database , computer science , computer network , statistics , mathematics
Using an interview survey of manufacturing establishments that provide 10 years of retrospective data on labor practices, we investigate factors associated with the adoption and termination of employee involvement programs and the relation between these and other human resource policies. In the period studied, more firms introduced than terminated such programs but a sufficiently large number chose to eliminate such programs to indicate that employee involvement does not fit in all business settings. Our results show that business strategy and the use of other complementary human resource policies affect the dynamics of employee involvement use in US manufacturing establishments.