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Front Matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Executive Summary -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The External Contexts of Work -- 3 Changes in the Organizational Contexts of Work -- 4 Changes in the Structure and Content of Work -- 5 Implications for Occupational Analysis Systems -- 6 Army Work and Approaches to Occupational Analysis -- 7 Conclusions and Implications -- References -- APPENDIX A Prototype Evaluation -- APPENDIX B Current Occupational Analysis Systems -- APPENDIX C Biographical Sketches -- Index.

PEOPLE AND TECHNOLOGY IN THE WORKPLACE -- Copyright -- Preface -- Contents -- Designing For Technological Change: People In The Process -- THE PROBLEM -- LEADERSHIP -- EMPLOYEE INVOLVEMENT -- TRAINING -- INCENTIVES -- ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE -- TECHNOLOGY -- CONCLUSIONS -- Improving the Development, Acceptance, and Use of New Technology: Organizational and Interorganizational Challenges -- THE NATURE OF INNOVATION: WHAT IS KNOWN -- FOCUS: STRATEGY, RESOURCES, REWARDS -- The Business Mix -- The Activity Mix -- Rewards -- FAST: TOWARD MULTIPLE, SPEEDY INNOVATIONS -- Willingness to Be First -- Channels for New Ideas -- Communication Links -- Dismantling Territorial Rivalries and Status Barriers -- Commitment -- FLEXIBILITY: THE USE OF RESOURCES -- Work Systems -- Desperately Seeking Synergies -- Project Flexibility -- FRIENDLY: INTERORGANIZATIONAL COLLABORATION -- Stimulating New Uses for Technology -- Capability Expansion -- Organization-Spanning Technology -- Bridging" Organizations: Mechanisms for Technology Transfer -- Complexities of Collaboration -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- 1 Automated Manufacturing Technologies -- Capitalizing on New Manufacturing Technologies: Current Problems and Emergent Trends in U.S. Industry -- TECHNOLOGY -- SKILLS -- PROCEDURES -- STRUCTURE -- STRATEGY -- CULTURE -- NEW TECHNOLOGY AND COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE -- REFERENCES -- Design and Implementation of a Process for a Large-Scale System Change at Boeing -- COMPANY OVERVIEW -- A NEW FACILITY: DECISION AND DESIGN -- SOCIO-TECHNICAL SYSTEM -- Design Principles -- Early Implementation -- Labor and Management Cooperation -- LESSONS -- NEXT STEPS -- A Case History of Organizational Change: People and New Technology -- TRADITIONAL APPROACH -- A CONCURRENT APPROACH TO SYSTEM CHANGE -- ORGANIZATIONAL RENEWAL -- A New Shift Schedule -- Individual Performance Appraisals.

Performance Assessment for the Workplace -- Copyright -- Preface -- Contents -- Implications of Cognitive Psychology for Measuring Job Performance -- INTRODUCTION -- COGNITIVE COMPONENTS OF SKILL -- Procedural Content -- Goal Structure -- Basic and Prerequisite Abilities (Operators) -- Procedures (Methods) -- Selection Rules -- Conceptual Knowledge -- Task Structure -- Background Knowledge -- Context of Use -- Critical Mental Models -- Knowledge Engineering is One Aspect of Cognitive Task Analysis -- Levels of Acquisition -- Declarative Knowledge -- Skill Automation -- Skill Refinement -- Summary -- METHODS FOR COGNITIVE TASK ANALYSIS MEASUREMENT -- Procedure Ordering Tasks -- Sorting Tasks -- Realistic Troubleshooting Tasks -- Connection Specification Tasks -- What-How-Why Tasks -- AREAS OF THE MILITARY WHERE COGNITIVE TECHNIQUES HAVE PROMISE -- REFERENCES -- Work Samples as Measures of Performance -- INTRODUCTION -- Theoretical Bases for Work Sample Testing -- Previous Reviews of Work Sample Testing -- Meta-analytic Reviews of Validity Studies Involving Work Samples -- WORK SAMPLES AS PREDICTORS -- Assessing Trainability Using Work Samples -- WORK SAMPLES AS CRITERIA -- Physical Ability as a Predictor of Work Sample Performance -- Paper-and-Pencil Tests as Predictors of Work Sample Performance -- Performance Ratings Validated Against Work Samples -- Behavior Modeling Measured by Work Sample Performance -- ASSESSMENT CENTERS -- MEASUREMENT ISSUES -- Reliability -- Response Formats for Work Sample Evaluations -- ADVERSE IMPACT -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Measuring Job Competency -- THE RECOMMENDATION TO MEASURE COMPETENCY -- Performance-Based Selection Standards -- Interpreting Performance Scores -- Domain-Referenced Testing -- Advantages of a Domain-Referenced Scale -- Validity -- Entrance Standards -- Allocation -- Quality Needs.

Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: The Success, Fragility, and Diversity of Postsocialist Capitalism -- 1. Capitalist Diversity after Socialism -- 2. Paths to Postsocialist Capitalism -- 3. Nation Builders and Neoliberals: The Baltic States -- 4. Manufacturing Miracles and Welfare State Problems: The Visegrád Group -- 5. Neocorporatism and Weak States: The Southeastern European Countries -- 6. The Return of Hard Times -- Conclusion: Postsocialist Capitalism Twenty Years On -- Index.

Mothers Unite! -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. American Mothers, American Troubles -- 2. Power in Numbers -- 3. Why Join? -- 4. Do Mommy War Attitudes Prevent Organizing? -- 5. Workplace Flexibility Options -- 6. Are We in a Movement Now? Can We Get There? -- 7. Mothers Need Leadership, Too -- Appendix: Research Methodology -- Notes -- Index.

Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures, Maps, and Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- CHAPTER 1. Discovering the Holmes County Amish -- CHAPTER 2. The Origins of Religious Diversity -- CHAPTER 3. Coping with Church Schism -- CHAPTER 4. Continuity and Change in Family Life -- CHAPTER 5. The Changing Landscape of Learning -- CHAPTER 6. Work Within and Outside Tradition -- CHAPTER 7. Health along the Life Cycle -- CHAPTER 8. Stepping Back and Looking Forward -- APPENDIXES -- A. Methodology -- B. Ohio Amish Settlements, 2008 -- C. Holmes County Settlement Amish Church Schisms, 1900-2001 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- I Tracing Unities -- 1. Hanging Together: Divergent Unities in American History -- 2. America in Person: The Evolution of National Symbols -- 3. Rediscovering the Pragmatic American -- 4. Specialization in a Democracy -- II Integrating Diversity -- 5. Integrating America: The Problem of Assimilation at the Turn of the Century -- 6. Immigration and American Mythology -- 7. Pluralistic Integration as an American Model -- 8. Three Postwar Reconstructions -- III Turning Points -- 9. From Boundlessness to Consolidation: The Transformation of American Culture, 1848-1860 -- 10. America's Utopian Prophets -- 11. The Reorientation of American Culture in the 1890s -- 12. The Long Road to the New Deal -- IV Prospects -- 13. Multiculturalism and Universalism: A History and Critique -- 14. The Future of American History -- Notes -- Index.

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- A Selected Bibliography of Terry Thomason's Publications -- 1 - Introduction, by Karen Roberts -- 2 - Economic Incentives and Workplace Safety, by Terry Thomason -- 3 - The Adequacy of Workers' Compensation Cash Benefits, by Leslie I. Boden, Robert T. Reville, and Jeff Biddle -- 4 - Permanent Partial Disability Benefits, by John F. Burton, Jr. -- 5 - Issues in Workers' Compensation Appeals System Reform, by Douglas E. Hyatt -- 6 - Performance Measurement in Workers' Compensation Systems, by H. Allan Hunt -- 7 - The Structure of and Incentives from Workers' Compensation Pricing, by Karen Roberts -- 8 - Health Care and Workers' Compensation, Cameron Mustard and Sandra Sinclair -- 9 - How Can Behavioral Economics Inform Research on Workplace Injuries?, by Seth A. Seabury, Robert T. Reville, Hilary J. Rhodes, and Leslie I. Boden -- 10 - Revisiting Black Lung: Can the Feds Deliver Workers' Compensation for Occupational Disease?, by Peter S. Barth -- 11 - Workers' Compensation in Rhode Island: Reform through Business/Labor Cooperation, by Matthew Carey -- The Authors -- Index -- About the Institute.

FrontMatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Executive Summary -- I INTRODUCTION -- Introduction -- II PROCEEDINGS -- Opening Remarks -- Panel I - SBIR at the Department of Defense -- Panel II - SBIR at the National Institutes of Health -- Panel III - SBIR at NASA -- Panel IV - SBIR at the Department of Energy -- Panel V - SBIR at the National Science Foundation -- Panel VI - Roundtable Discussion -- III APPENDIXES -- Appendix A: Biographies of Speakers -- Appendix B: Participants List 24 October 2002 Symposium -- Appendix C: Bibliography.

Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction: Meaningful Work and Moral Identity -- 2. "El Nuevo South": The Case of North Carolina and the Community Health Center Program -- 3. Threats to Moral Identity and Disparity in "Moral" Wages -- 4. Moral Identity and Racial Solidarity: How Lower-Status Workers Fashion a Superior Self -- 5. "Neediest of the Needy": How Midlevel-Status Workers View Their Work as "Moral" -- 6. "Working in the Trenches": How "Doing Good" Helps Higher-Status Staffers Build Their Moral Identity -- 7. Moral Identity Construction and New Ethnic Relations -- References -- Index.

"A portion of chapters VIII., IX., and X. have already appeared in the Contemporary review and in the Political science quarterly review"--Pref. ; Mode of access: Internet.

"A portion of chapters VIII., IX., and X. have already appeared in the Contemporary review and in the Political science quarterly review."--Pref. ; Mode of access: Internet.

Reprint ed. published under title: The state: its nature, its functions, its rights, and its political organization. ; "The crowned essay for which the prize of five hundred dollars was awarded on May 17, 1895, from the Henry M. Phillips prize essay fund, by the committee of judges appointed by the 'American philosophical society held at Philadelphia for the promotion of useful knowledge'." ; Mode of access: Internet.