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Appendix C: Biographical Sketches
Pages 341-348

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From page 341...
... He has done research on a variety of topics related to industrial relations and human resource management in the public and private sector. His recent books include: After Lean Production: Evolving Employment Practices in the World Auto Industry; Managingfor the Future: Organizational Behavior and Processes; Employment Relations in a Changing World Economy; Human Resource Management in Asian Economies; The Mutual Gains Enterprise; Transforming Organizations; An Introduction to Collective Bargaining and Industrial Relations; and The Transformation of American Industrial Relations.
From page 342...
... He is currently working on a multipronged study of contingent work among engineers and software developers in the Silicon Valley. ROSEMARY BATT is assistant professor of human resource studies at the Industrial and Labor Relations School of Cornell University.
From page 343...
... His research has examined labor relations, changes in work and the effects on skill requirements, the contribution of workplace attitudes and behaviors to job-related skills, and the effects on workforce skills associated with choices of employment practices. His book Change at Work describes how the restructuring of American industry has created changes in the employment relationship for the National Planning Association, and The New Deal at Work outlines the management challenges that emerge in the absence of long-term employment commitments.
From page 344...
... His current research focuses on the changing nature of employment relations in the United States and Norway, organizations' increasing use of flexible staffing arrangements (especially in the health care industry) , and the nature and consequences of high-performance work
From page 345...
... on Musculoskeletal Disorders and the Workplace. Her previous work as a National Research Council senior staff officer has included studies on modeling human behavior and command decision making, human factors in air traffic control automation, human factors considerations in tactical display for soldiers, scientific and technological challenges of virtual reality, emerging needs and opportunities for human factors research, and modeling cost and performance for purposes of military enlistment.
From page 346...
... PAUL OSTERMAN is professor of human resources and management at the Sloan School of Management of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the author of three books: Getting Started: The Youth Labor Market, Employment Futures: Reorganization, Dislocation, and Public Policy, and Making America Work; the coauthor of The Mutual Gains Enterprise, Forging a Winning Partnership Among Labor, Management, and Government, and the editor of two books, Internal Labor Markets and Broken Ladders: Managerial Careers in the New Economy.
From page 347...
... He is a fellow of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, the American Psychological Association, and the American Psychological Society. He has conducted research for a variety of public- and private-sector sponsors in a number of applied areas, including occupational analysis, development and validation of measures of individual differences, employee selection and classification systems, and the prediction of human performance in occupational and training settings.
From page 348...
... ROBERT I VANCE is senior research associate at the Institute for Policy Research and Evaluation at the Pennsylvania State University.


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