Advances in Industrial and Labor Relations.

Front Cover -- Advances in Industrial and Labor Relations -- Copyright page -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- Changing Union Representation Election Voting Regimes: What Can We Learn? -- Introduction -- Electronic Voting and Prior Research on Its Impact on Turnout in Political Elections -- The RLA, the NMB, and Union Representation -- The Reaction of Investors to Changes in NMB Voting Procedures -- Methodology -- The Formal Model -- The Samples of Firms -- Event Periods -- The Rule Changes: 2002 -- The Rule Changes: 2007 -- The Rule Changes: 2010 -- Results of the Event Study -- Evidence from NMB Representation Election Data -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Appendix: Corporations in the Event Study Analysis -- Union Financial Reporting and Disclosure under the LMRDA: A Comparison of the Bush and Obama Administrations -- A New Era at the OLMS -- New Goals of Obama Administration in Union Reporting and Enforcement -- OLMS Focus on Compliance Assistance -- OLMS and Internal Union Elections -- OLMS Outreach and VCAs -- "Persuader Activity" and Worker Centers -- Bush Reporting Revisions and Union Transparency and Accountability -- Bush-Era Revisions Did Not Improve Transparency and Accountability -- More Detailed Reporting under the Revised Bush-Era LM-2s Did Not Result in Greater Transparency and Accountability -- More Detailed Information is Not the Same Thing as Increased Transparency -- What Kind of Financial Transparency and Accountability Do Union Members Want? -- If Not Union Members Did Not Benefit, Who Benefitted from the LM-2 Revisions? -- Did the Bush DOL Rules Impose an Onerous Burden on Unions? -- Significant Costs to the Federal Government -- Politicization of OLMS Personnel under the Bush II Administration -- Conclusion: What Was the Real Impact of the Bush Revisions? -- Notes -- References.

The Demand for Human Resource Managers: An Occupational Perspective -- Human Resources and the Importance of Occupational Specific Human Capital -- The Importance of the Shift toward Occupational Specific Human Capital -- Demand for and the Labor Market -- Data -- Methods and Results -- CPS Estimates of HRM and Occupational Employment -- Can We Reconcile the Differences between the OES and CPS Estimates of Relative HRM Employment? -- HRM Earnings and Relative Occupational Employment -- Discussion -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Examining the Relationship among Part-Time Work Arrangements, Job Satisfaction, and Work Effort: A Study of U.S. College Faculty -- Introduction -- Literature Review -- Theory and Hypotheses -- Preference for Full-Time Employment -- Primacy of Part-Time Job -- Interdependence between Preference and Primacy -- Methods -- Data and Sample -- Variables and Measures -- Methods -- Results -- Discussion and Implications -- Limitations and Future Research -- Notes -- References -- Appendix -- Board Independence and Changes in Defined-Benefit Plan Funding -- Introduction -- Defined-Benefit Plans: A Brief Overview -- Theory and Hypotheses -- Corporate Boards and Strategic Investments in Intangible Resources -- CEO Duality and Defined-Benefit Funding -- Outside Director Representation and Defined-Benefit Funding -- Outside Director Ownership and Defined-Benefit Funding -- Interaction Effects of Outside Director Representation and Outside Director Ownership -- Methods -- Sample -- Measurement -- Dependent Variable -- Independent Variables -- Control Variables -- Analyses and Results -- Analyses -- Results -- Discussion -- Contributions -- Implications -- Limitations and Future Directions -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References.

Nose to Tail: Using the Whole Employment Relationship to Link Worker Participation to Operational Performance -- Introduction -- Limitations of Existing Theoretical Approaches to the Participation-Performance Link -- Frontline Worker Participation in Its Broader Context -- A Labor Relations Perspective on the Employment Relationship -- HRM Theories of Horizontal and Vertical Alignment -- Propositions -- Discussion -- Theoretical Contributions -- Frontline Worker Participation -- Strategic Human Resource Management -- Labor Relations -- Practical Implications -- Future Directions -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- References.

Advances in Industrial and Labor Relations is a refereed research volume published annually or biannually.

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