Farewell to the Factory or Staffing Organizations

Farewell to the Factory: Auto Workers in the Late Twentieth Century

Author: Ruth Milkman

This study exposes the human side of the decline of the U.S. auto industry, tracing the experiences of two key groups of General Motors workers: those who took a cash buyout and left the factory, and those who remained and felt the effects of new technology and other workplace changes. Milkman's extensive interviews and surveys of workers from the Linden, New Jersey, GM plant reveal their profound hatred for the factory regime--a longstanding discontent made worse by the decline of the auto workers' union in the 1980s. One of the leading social historians of the auto industry, Ruth Milkman moves between changes in the wider industry and those in the Linden plant, bringing both a workers' perspective and a historical perspective to the study.
Milkman finds that, contrary to the assumption in much of the literature on deindustrialization, the Linden buyout-takers express no nostalgia for the high-paying manufacturing jobs they left behind. Given the chance to make a new start in the late 1980s, they were eager to leave the plant with its authoritarian, prison-like conditions, and few have any regrets about their decision five years later. Despite the fact that the factory was retooled for robotics and that the management hoped to introduce a new participatory system of industrial relations, workers who remained express much less satisfaction with their lives and jobs.
Milkman is adamant about allowing the workers to speak for themselves, and their hopes, frustrations, and insights add fresh and powerful perspectives to a debate that is often carried out over the heads of those whose lives are most affected by changes in the industry.

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Staffing Organizations

Author: Herbert G Heneman III

Heneman and Judge's book is based on a comprehensive staffing model. The model has been revised somewhat in this edition to reflect the growing importance of staffing strategy and to incorporate retention management into the staffing domain. Components of the model includestaffing models and strategy, staffing support systems (legal compliance, planning, job analysis), core staffing systems (recruitment, selection, employment), and staffing system and retention management. Up-to-date research and business practices are the trademarks of this market leading text. In-depth applications (cases and exercises) at the end of chapters provide students with skill-building and practice in key staffing activities and decision-making.

Table of Contents:

Staffing Organizations, 5e
Part One; The Nature of Staffing
Chapter 1 Staffing Models and Strategy
Part Two; Support Activities
Chapter 2 Legal Compliance
Chapter 3 Planning
Chapter 4 Job Analysis and Rewards
Part Three; Staffing Activities: Recruitment
Chapter 5 External Recruitment
Chapter 6 Internal Recruitment
Part Four; Staffing Activities: Selection
Chapter 7 Measurement
Chapter 8 External Selection I
Chapter 9 External Selection II
Chapter 10 Internal Selection
Part Five; Staffing Activities: Employment
Chapter 11 Decision Making
Chapter 12 Final Match
Part Six; Staffing System and Retention Management
Chapter 13 Staffing System Management
Chapter 14 Retention Management