This volume presents an authoritative database on the workings of organizations in the United States. It describes the National Organizations Study, the first national survey of organizations in the US using a statistically representative sample. As well as outlining the study and the major conclusions it reaches, the book also looks at specific employment practices - hiring, training, promotion, performance measurement, benefit packages and contingent work - and how they compare between different businesses and business sectors. Differential treatment of employees according to ethnicity and gender is examined as part of the analysis of these topics.

PART ONE: THE NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS STUDY
Organizational Properties and Practices - Arne L Kalleberg et al
Design of the National Organizations Study - Joe L Spaeth and Diane P O¿Rourke
American Organizations and Their Environments - Peter V Marsden, Cynthia R Cook, and David Knoke
PART TWO: ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURES
Bureaucratic Structures for Coordination and Control - Peter V Marsden, Cynthia R Cook, and Arne L Kalleberg
Formalizing the Employment Relation - Arne L Kalleberg et al
Human Resource Management and Organizational Performance - Arne L Kalleberg and James W Moody
PART THREE: ORGANIZATIONS¿ HUMAN RESOURCE PRACTICES
The Staffing Process - Peter V Marsden
Recruitment and Selection Methods
Job Training in US Organizations - David Knoke and Arne L Kalleberg
Training, Unions, and Internal Labor Markets - David Knoke and Yoshito Ishio
Organizational Differences in Earnings - Arne L Kalleberg and Mark E Van Buren
The Structure of Organizational Earnings Inequality - Arne L Kalleberg and Mark E Van Buren
Cui Bono? Employee Benefit Packages - David Knoke
PART FOUR: ORGANIZATIONS AND THE CHANGING WORKFORCE
Contingent Employment in Organizations - Arne L Kalleberg and Kathryn Schmidt
Organizational Patterns of Gender Segregation - Donald Tomaskovic-Devey, Arne L Kalleberg, and Peter V Marsden
Gender Differences in Organizational Commitment - Peter V Marsden, Arne L Kalleberg, and Cynthia R Cook
Influences of Work Positions and Family Roles
Conclusions and Prospects - Arne L Kalleberg et al