... agree” (5). Academic staff Control Performance‐related pay Trust USA Trust in organizations (e.g. Butler, 1991; Mayer et al., 1995; Shaw, 1997) and pay‐for‐performance systems (e.g. Lawler, 1971; Schuster and Zingheim, 1992) are attracting increasing attention from...

... Malaysia USA Manufacturing industry Models The fast‐changing business environment and increasingly intense competitive environment require the ability on the part of human resource (HR) professionals to adapt to this more challenging environment. Specifically, the human resource management (HRM...

..., education and training funds. They also all operate under the supervision of joint national training centres ‐ entitled, respectively, the USA‐Chrysler National Training Centre (NTC), the UAW‐Ford Education, Development and Training Centre, and the UAW‐GM National Human Resource Centre. Faced...

...John R. Berridge Reviews the differences between employee assistance programmes (EAPs) in the USA and the UK, but also identifies convergent trends in the employment environment in both countries. Discusses recent developments for professional EAPs in the USA to be driven by occupational social...

... Kingdom USA Welfare Even though findings from US studies have indicated generally positive outcomes, calls for good quality, independent evaluative research are increasing. Despite the enormity of the potential benefits of services,there is still a paucity of information about these services...

..., 1989, pp. 154-67. Nick Oliver is a lecturer in Organisational Behaviour and James Lowe is a researcher at Cardiff Business School. © MCB UP Limited 1991 Computer industry Organizational structure United Kingdom Japan USA Management styles Human resource management ...