The past century has seen the rise and, in the United States and several other indus trialized
nations, the decline of the field of industrial relations. The Global Evolution of Industrial …

This paper surveys the development of the American human resource management field
from the late 19th century to the start of the 21st century. Important people, ideas and events …

Orthodoxy holds the emergence of the Human Relations 'school'in interwar America as a
response to the alleged inhumanity and simplistic innovation the Scientific Management …

Of all the sciences and social sciences, management is the one that most deliberately turns
its back on the past. Yet management as we know it today did not spring into life fully formed …

Human resource departments are key components in the people management system of
nearly every medium-to-large organization in the industrial world. They provide a wide …

This article argues that the industrial relations (IR) field has had two distinct paradigms—an
original paradigm centred on the employment relationship, and a modern paradigm centred …

This paper advances theory development in international and comparative HRM regarding
convergence–divergence trends in HRM systems and practices across nations …

This study provides a four‐decade review and analysis of the commitment model of
employment relations at D elta A ir L ines and the role played in it by employer‐created …

The industrial relations (IR) field in Canada and the United States (US) emerged in the late
1910s-early 1920s and is thus on the cusp of its 100th anniversary. The impetus for the …

This paper reexamines American experience with company unions (also known as
nonunion employee representation plans) before they were banned by the Wagner Act …