America at Work

Part I. Quality of Worklife of Americans

1. Working Alone: Whatever Happened to the Idea of Organizations as Communities?
Jeffrey Pfeffer

2. The Transformation of Work in America: New Health Vulnerabilities for American Workers
Richard H. Price

3. Restoring Voice at Work and in Society
Thomas A. Kochan

4. Work and Family in America: Growing Tensions between Employment Policy and a Transformed Workforce
Ellen Ernst Kossek

5. The Effects of New Work Practices on Workers
Michael J. Handel, David I. Levine

6. Trends in Jobs and Wages in the U.S. Economy
Alec Levenson

Part 2. Careers in the New American Workplace

7. Is Education The Answer? Trends in the Supply and Demand for Skills in the U.S. Workforce
David Finegold

8. Bringing Careers Back in … The Changing Landscape of Careers in American Corporations Today
Elizabeth F. Craig, Douglas T. Hall

9. The Shifting Risk for the American Worker in the Contemporary Employment Contract
Denise M. Rousseau

10. Itinerant Professionals: Technical Contractors in a Knowledge Economy
Stephen R. Barley, Gideon Kunda

11. The Changing Employment Circumstances of Managers
Paul Osterman

12. Changing Career Paths and their Implications
Peter Cappelli

Part 3. Organizational Effectiveness

13. The Value of Innovative Human Resource Management Practices
Kathryn Shaw

14. The Economic Impact of Employee Behaviors on Organizational Performance
Wayne F. Cascio

15. Global Sourcing of Talent: Implications for the U.S. Workforce
Fred K. Foulkes, Sushil Vachani, Jennifer Zaslow

16. Shared Capitalism at Work: Impacts and Policy Options
Joseph Blasi, Douglas Kruse, Richard B. Freeman

Nyckelord: Business and Management, Human Resource Management, Office Management