"An organization's human resource management (HRM) policies and their implementation have long been claimed to influence trust within an organizational environment. However there has, until now, been a limited examination of the relationship between the two. In this unique book, the contributors...

An organization’s human resource management (HRM) policies and their implementation have long been claimed to influence trust within an organizational environment. However there has, until now, been a limited examination of the relationship between the two. In this unique book, the...

Theories from the economics, management control, and organizational behavior literatures predict that when it is difficult to align incentives by contracting on output, aligning preferences via employee selection may provide a useful alternative. This study investigates this idea empirically...

Intro -- DEDICATION -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES -- PREFACE -- WHY THESE THEORIES? -- THE ESSENTIAL THEORIES -- STRUCTURE OF THE BOOK -- STRUCTURE OF THE CHAPTERS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- PART I THE CORNERSTONES OF SCIENTIFIC THEORY AND PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS -- CHAPTER 1 ON THE NATURE...