Beyond profit?: Sectoral differences in high-performance work practices

Work and Occupations

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 271-302

  Kalleberg, Arne L ^a,e   Marsden, Peter V ^b,f   Reynolds, Jeremy ^c   Knoke, David ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^e Department of Sociology ^*

^f HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

High performance work organizations; Human resource practices; Incentive compensation; Nonprofit sector; Public sector; Work teams

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745853148     PISSN: 07308884     EISSN: 15528464     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0730888406290049     Document Type: Review

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