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Worker Attitudes, Worker Behavior, and Productivity in the U.S. Automobile Industry, 1959-1976.
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Norsworthy, J. R.; Zabala, Craig A. – Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 1985
This study tests a standard model of the production process and an augmented model that incorporates a linkage from worker attitudes to total factor productivity and the total unit cost of production. The authors estimate these models with data on the U.S. automobile industry for the years 1959-76. (Author/CT)
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Employee Attitudes, Employer Employee Relationship, Job Performance
Labor History and Industrial Relations: A Symposium.
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Salvatore, Nick; And Others – Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 1989
Includes "Labor History, Industrial Relations, and the Crisis of American Labor" (Brody); "Reckoning with Company Unions: The Case of Thompson Products, 1934-1964" (Jacoby); "Managers and Nonunion Workers in the Rubber Industry: Union Avoidance Strategies in the 1930s" (Nelson); and "'Light Manufacturing': The…
Descriptors: Employed Women, Employer Employee Relationship, Labor Relations, Office Occupations
Behavioral Research in Industrial Relations.
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Lewin, David; Feuille, Peter – Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 1983
This paper examines and assesses the behavioral content of industrial relations research in a variety of social science disciplines. The authors compare economic research on the wage and productivity consequences of unionism with psychological research on worker attitudes toward unions, sociological research on the negotiation process and conflict…
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Collective Bargaining, Economic Factors, Economic Research