The American Workplace: Skills, Pay, and Employment Involvement

by Casey Ichniowski (Editor), Craig Olson, David I. Levine (Editor)

This volume contributes to a growing consensus about effective workplace practices. The collection combines detailed studies of single industries (automobile assembly, apparel, and machine tools) with cross-industry studies of financial performance. Compared to most past investigations, the research here has better measures of both workplace practices and organizational performance. The contributors find that systems of innovative human resource management practices can have large effects on business performance. Success does not come from any single innovation, but from a coherent system encompassing pay, training, and employee involvement.

298 pages, Hardcover

First published April 24, 2000