Creating the Competitive Edge through Human Resource Applications

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. Introduction

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Introduction

      • Normand W. Green

      Pages 3-5

3. Reshaping the Organization for the Twenty First Century

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 7-7

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   2. Environmental Scanning: Strategic and Functional Approaches

      • Charles H. Fay, Richard W. Beatty

      Pages 9-16

   3. Baby Boom and Baby Bust: Corporate Response to the Demographic Challenge of 1990–2010

      • Martin M. Greller, David M. Nee

      Pages 17-34

   4. Work Place Challenges for Managers in the Twenty-First Century

      • Valerie B. Bowles, Arthur R. Riles Jr.

      Pages 35-46

   5. Forces Reshaping the Future Organization and Management of Work: A Perspective from a Canadian Integrated Oil Company

      • Matthew Baerveldt, Gillian Hobbs

      Pages 47-62

   6. Designing the Adaptive Organization

      • Kenneth D. Mackenzie

      Pages 63-81

4. Coping with Major Organizational Change

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 83-83

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   2. Managerial Careers and Organization-Wide Transformations

      • Karen N. Gaertner

      Pages 85-95

   3. The Role of Human Resources in Organizational Consolidation and Relocation

      • Jo Ann Verdin, Anthony M. Pagano

      Pages 97-108

   4. Innovative Working Relationships in a Traditional Organization

      • James A. Rankin

      Pages 109-117

   5. Analyzing Organizational Strategic Change Using Proactive Labor Market Forecasts

      • D. M. Atwater, E. S. Bres III, R. J. Niehaus

      Pages 119-136

   6. Coping with Occupational Structure Issues at Large Public Industrial Organizations

      • E. S. Bres III, R. J. Niehaus, F. J. Sharkey, C. L. Weber

      Pages 137-148

5. Organizational Downsizing

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 149-149

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   2. Organizational Downsizing in a Company Comitted to Workforce Continuity and People Involvement

      • Janice M. Druian

      Pages 151-159

   3. Downsizing as a Positive Experience

      • John R. Marshall, Rodney B. Plimpton

      Pages 161-167

   4. Layoffs: What Does Flexibility Really Cost?

      • Dan L. Ward

      Pages 169-178

6. Evaluating the Human Resource Function

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 179-179

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This volume is the proceedings of a symposium entitled "Creating the Competitive Edge Through Human Resource Applications" which was held at Salve Regina College, Newport, Rhode Island on Jtm.e 16-19, 1987. The meeting was sponsored by the Research Coomi ttee of the Human Resource Plarming Society (HRPS). In developing the agenda, the Research Committee built upon the format of the first HRPS research symposium on "Strategic Human Resource Plarming Applications" held at the University of Pennsylvania in 1985. The intent in both meetings was on the linkage of the state-of-practice with the state-of­ the-art. Particular attention was placed on research studies which were application oriented so that member organizations can see examples of ways to extend current practices with the knowledge presented by the applications • The meeting has sessions on: (1) Reshaping the Organization for the Twenty-first Century, (2) Coping with Major Organizational Change, (3) Organization Downsizing, (4) Evaluating the Human Resource Function and (5) The Impact of Corporate Culture on Future Human Resource Practices. Thirty papers were presented with discussion sessions at appropriate points in the meeting. This volume contains twenty one of these papers along with an introductory paper. A short summary is also provided at the begirming of each major subdivision into which the papers are arranged.

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• Transformation
• environment
• human resources
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