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Examining the impact of the cultural dimension of uncertainty avoidance on staffing decisions: a look at US and German firms
Jeanquart‐Barone, Sandy; Peluchette, Joy V. - In: Cross Cultural Management: An International Journal 6 (1999) 3, pp. 3-12
Examines the impact of cultural differences on recruitment and selection practices in the USA and Germany, using a …‐risk recruitment methods for both blue‐ and white‐collar employees, a significantly higher use of structured and work‐related selection …
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The Americans with Disabilities Act 1990
Owens Swift, Cathy; Way, Jane P.; Wayland, Robert - In: Journal of Business & Industrial Marketing 9 (1994) 3, pp. 30-37
Explains for sales managers the provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act 1990, which provides protection for all disabled US citizens. Provides guidelines for industrial sales managers to ensure that they conform with the new legislation, Title I of which protects the disabled from...
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Benchmarking: Preventive Maintenance Practices at Japanese Transplants
Chen, Frederick - In: International Journal of Quality & Reliability Management 11 (1994) 8, pp. 19-26
Examines the preventive maintenance practice at four Japanese transplant operations in the USA. Illustrates the …
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Recruiting Strategies for Changing Times
Wiley, Carolyn - In: International Journal of Manpower 13 (1992) 9, pp. 13-22
requires multifaceted recruitment strategies. Aims to reveal how nontraditional (corporate involvement in public education) and …
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Discrimination issues affecting the selection of salespeople in the United States
Shepherd, C. David - In: International Journal of Manpower 16 (1995) 4, pp. 57-69
Traditionally, European firms have opted for hiring Americans to sell their products in the USA. However, the recent … enactment of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) highlights the growing complexity of discrimination regulation in the USA …. Even before enactment of this landmark legislation the number of federal suits alleging workplace discrimination in the USA …
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On transplanting human resource practices to China
Paul Huo, Y.; Von Glinow, Mary Ann - In: International Journal of Manpower 16 (1995) 9, pp. 3-15
) practices – beyond what is a accounted for by political or economic structures – by comparing the USA with one of its major … trading partners, Taiwan and with the People′s Republic of China (PRC), a country with which the USA has had a rather …
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Human Resource Management and the Specialist/Generalist Issue
Cesare, Steven J.; Thornton, Coleen - In: Journal of Managerial Psychology 8 (1993) 3, pp. 31-40
order to optimize their performance. Organizes these issues into four human resource management areas: recruitment …
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Acceptable Adverse Impact of Selection Procedures in Organisations
Thacker, James W.; Blanchard, P. Nick; Camp, Richaurd R. - In: Journal of Managerial Psychology 4 (1989) 1, pp. 3-11
Evidence exists which suggests that organisations may have misinterpreted the intent and letter of the current US law in personnel selection. The flawed response that many organisations have taken as a result of this misinterpretation is described. While “unfair discrimination” is...
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Do Police Departments Recruit Different Types of Officers?
Lidgard, Christine F.; Bates, Noel W. - In: Journal of Managerial Psychology 4 (1989) 2, pp. 3-12
Personality types of police officers being recruited and serving in police departments in Australia, the US and the UK are compared and contrasted. New evidence concerning the psychological types of both recruits and serving officers in the Queensland Police Department is presented. Comparisons...
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Screening Workers: An Examination and Analysis of Practice and Public Policy
Greenfield, Patricia A.; Karren, Ronald J.; Zacharias, … - In: Employee Relations 11 (1989) 5, pp. 2-47
Every employer, unless he or she has no pool of applicants or potential applicants to choose from, engages in hiring choices. While the hiring process may vary, both from one employer to another and from one job to another, some form of screening occurs. In recent years, students of management...
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