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Jacoby, Sanford Mark was born on May 13, 1953 in New York City. Son of Arthur and Doris Jacoby.
(Deftly blending social and business history with economic...)
Deftly blending social and business history with economic analysis, Employing Bureaucracy shows how the American workplace shifted from a market-oriented system to a bureaucratic one over the course of the 20th century. Jacoby explains how an unstable, haphazard employment relationship evolved into one that was more enduring, equitable, and career-oriented. This revised edition presents a new analysis of recent efforts to re-establish a market orientation in the workplace. This book is a definitive history of the human resource management profession in the United States, showing its diverse roots in engineering, welfare work, and vocational guidance. It explores the recurring tension between the new professional order and traditional line management. Using a variety of sources, Jacoby analyzes the complex relations between personnel managers, labor unions, and government from the late 19th century to the present. Employing Bureaucracy: *analyzes the origins of the modern employment relationship's distinctive features; *combines a variety of disciplinary perspectives, from business and labor history to economics, sociology, and management; *shows the transformation of the American workplace over the course of the 20th century, from market-oriented to bureaucratic to recent efforts to move back to a market orientation; and *provides the single-best and most sophisticated history of the origins and development of the modern "HR" profession. For historians, social scientists, and practitioners, this book is a readable and rewarding study. With the future of work currently under debate, it is critical that the historical process that produced the modern American workplace is understood. Read the Workforce Management Magazine review about Employing Bureaucracy at www.erlbaum.com.
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( Is there one best way to run the modern business corpor...)
Is there one best way to run the modern business corporation? What is the appropriate balance between shareholders, executives, and employees? These questions are being vigorously debated as layoffs, scandals, and restructurings rattle companies around the world. The common assumption is that globalization is merging the varieties of corporate capitalism. Yet, as this book shows, corporations in Japan and the United States are responding differently to the pressures unleashed by globalization. In The Embedded Corporation, Sanford Jacoby traces this diversity to national differences in economic history and social norms, and, paradoxically, to global competition itself. The book's vantage point for exploring the varieties of capitalism is the human resource departments of large corporations, where changes in markets and technology turn into corporate labor policies affecting millions of workers. Despite some cross-fertilization, Japanese and American corporations maintain distinctive approaches to human resource management, which has important consequences for how firms compete, for corporate governance, and even for the level of inequality in Japan and the United States. The Embedded Corporation is a major contribution to our understanding of comparative management and the relationship between business, society, and the global economy.
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Jacoby, Sanford Mark was born on May 13, 1953 in New York City. Son of Arthur and Doris Jacoby.
AB magna cum laude, University of Pennsylvania, 1973; Doctor of Philosophy in Economics, University of California, Berkeley, 1981.
Professor management, history and policy studies, University of California at Los Angeles, since 1980. Research associate University of California at Los Angeles Institute Industrial Rels., 1980-1990, associate director, 1990-1997. Visiting scholar Cornell Univercity, Ithaca, New York, 1989-1990, Meiji U., Tokyo, 1997.
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(Deftly blending social and business history with economic...)
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Member American Society Association, Industrial Rels. Research Association (chair nominating committee 1987), American Economics Association, Organisation American Historians, Society for the Advancement of Socioecons.
Married Susan Bartholomew, September 9, 1984. Children: Alexander, Margaret.