Employee assistance programs (EAPs) are mechanisms that provide the workplace with systematic means for dealing with personal problems that affect employees' job performance. Numerous studies have focused on the structure ...

Thus, while limited to interpretations of one organizational setting, the results of this dissertation do indicate some employee differences based on grouping according to personal characteristics. The key implication of ...

The importance of political action to public-employee unions has long been recognized by industrial-relations researchers. However, few researchers have attempted to examine public-employee union political action. The gap ...

Guanxi (personal connections or relationships) is a pervasive element of Chinese culture that shares a discriminating attribute with Leader-member Exchange (LMX). This commonality between guanxi and LMX leads to a proposition ...

The study makes three key contributions: First, in a departure from the standard institutional approaches to the study of management practices transfer, it uses the lenses of two entrepreneurial theories of decision-making ...

This dissertation includes three separate but interrelated papers. I attempt to examine the relationships among human resource systems, high performers' organizational commitment and turnover, and firm performance at the ...

This study examined the effects of the interaction between learning goal orientation and practice conditions on various training outcomes in labor education. Participants were students in six different labor education ...