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tions. Volume 6. Emerging trends in Japanese management. Creenwich, Conn, and London: JAI Press, 1994. Pp. xx, 243. $73.25. ISBN 1-55938- 603-7. JEL 95-1137

Ten papers examine Japanese business man- agement, reflecting a diffusion of knowledge across countries and disciplines. Jill Kleinberg discusses emergent culture in a Japanese- American binational work group. Richard G. Li- nowes explores the design of American and Japanese bicultural work teams. Allan Bird and Suresh Kotha present U.S. and Japanese per- ceptions of advanced manufacturing technolo- gies. Koji Taira examines capitalism and modes of production. Elizabeth L. Rose and Kiyohiko Ito address the structure of subsidiary owner- ship of Japanese manufacturing firms. Johny K. Johansson and Thomas W. Roehl focus on how companies develop assets and capabilities. Leonard H. Lynn presents a framework for theory-guided research on Japan's systems of innovation. Yui Kimura considers foreign direct investment in the semiconductor industry in Ja- pan. Manuel G. Serapio, Jr., presents a com- parative study of Japanese R&D investments in the U.S. electronics and automotive industries. Robert E. Cole assesses scholars doing research on Japan in an era of rising U.S.—Japan trade tensions. Beechler is at Columbia University. Bird is at the California Polytechnic State Uni- versity. No index.

BLAZEWICZ, JACEK, ET AL. Scheduling in computer and manufacturing systems. Second edition. Heidelberg; New York and London: Springer, [1993] 1994. Pp. ix, 312. $99.00. ISBN 0-387- 58049-2. JEL 95-1138

Second edition presents eight papers revised from the first edition, providing a theoretical and application-oriented analysis of deter- ministic scheduling problems arising in com- puter and manufacturing environments. Papers focus on preliminaries; formulation of schedul- ing problems; single processor scheduling; par- allel processor scheduling; static shop schedul- ing; resource constrained scheduling; scheduling in flexible manufacturing systems; and the transition from theory to practice. Coauthors are Klaus H. Ecker, GUnter Schmidt, and Jan W^glarz. Blazewicz is at the Instytut Informatyki, Politechnika Poznanska, Poland. Index.

CUMMINGS, L. L. AND STAW, BARRY M., eds. Re-

search in organizational behavior. Volume 17. An Annual Series of Analytical Essays and Critical Re-

views. Greenwich, Conn, and London: JAI Press, 1995. Pp. xi, 461. $92.50. ISBN 1-55938-743-2.

JEL 95-1139 Nine papers reflect current themes in organ-

izational behavior scholarship, presenting new theory and suggestions for new research. Pa- pers focus on an archival study of timing deci- sions in the Persian Gulf War; a framework for the integration of micro and macro organiza- tional behavior; population level learning; a paradigm for confirmatory cross-cultural re- search in organizational behavior; extra-role be- haviors; the enactment of economic adversity; organizational forms and managerial philoso- phies; membership dynamics in groups at work; and labeling processes in the organization. Cummings is at the University of Minnesota. Staw is at the University of California, Berkeley. No index.

GiNZBERG, ELI, ed. Executive talent: Developing and keeping the best people. Second edition. New Brunswick, N.J. and London: Transaction, [1988] 1995. Pp. XV, 184. Paper. ISBN 1-56000-782-6.

JEL 9S-1140 Second edition includes the nine papers from

the first edition, exploring executive talent and related issues of human resources, plus a new introduction suggesting links between the ear- lier analysis and the new environment of the 1990s. Eh Ginzberg examines the new world of work; and presents findings and directions for future research. George Vojta discusses human resources in the large corporation. Boris Yavitz focuses on human resources in strategic plan- ning. Stephen Drotter presents the human re- sources function. Kirby Warren focuses on re- structuring for productivity. Douglas W. Bray considers managers through time. John T. Dun- lop assesses executives in four fields. Mitchell Sviridoff and Renee Berger evaluate corporate leadership and the pubhc weal. Ginzberg is A. Barton Hepburn Professor Emeritus of Eco- nomics at the Graduate School of Business and Director of the Eisenhower Center for the Con- servation of Human Resources at Columbia University. Index.

JEFFREYS, J. SHEP. Coping with workplace change: Dealing with loss and grief A Fifty-Minute Series Book. Menlo Park, Calif.: Crisp Publications, 1995. Pp. ix, 84. $9.95, paper. ISBN 1-56052-308-5.

JEL 95-1141 Workbook explains what can be done to help

employees deal with loss and grief resulting from workplace change, including change due to downsizing, mergers, restructuring or reor-

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ganization, redeployment, or bankruptcy. Dis- cusses reasons for change in the workplace; how change in the workplace becomes loss and grief in the workplace; why workplace attach- ments are the basis for employee loss and grief; the normal feelings, attitudes, and behaviors of grief reaction; how grief reaction affects em- ployee productivity; how employee grief moves through predictable stages and phases; the four tasks of mourning that must be accomplished in order to heal grief; how to help employees ac- complish the four tasks; how to listen helpfully to grieving employees and additional specific suggestions for helping grieving employees; how to recognize when an employee needs spe- cialized help; and how organizations can pro- vide programs to help grieving employees. In- cludes checklists and exercises. Jeffreys is a psychologist as well as an instructor in Psychia- try at Johns Hopkins University School of Medi- cine. Bibhography; no index.

JENNINGS, REG; COX, CHARLES AND COOPER, CARY L. Business elites: The psychology of entre- preneurs and intrapreneurs. London and New York: Routledge, 1994. Pp. 159. $29.95. ISBN 0-415-08232-3. }EL 95-1142

Examines a group of elite independent entre- preneurs and a group of ehte "intrapreneurs," providing a comparison between those who start companies and those who help maintain and develop them. Based on semi-structured in- terviews with about forty entrepreneurs and in- trapreneurs. Outlines the careers of a number of entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs. Investi- gates the influence on both groups of childhood events; socioeconomic background and margi- nalization; education, including the impact of mentors; and the work ethic. Analyzes the per- sonalities of the intrapreneur and the entrepre- neur, considering creativity, approach to risk, motivation, and managerial style. Explores ap- proaches to philanthropy and charitable work and underlying motives. Provides an overview of the background and characteristics of the elite business leader and considers the futur.e of entrepreneurship in the 1990s. Jennings is an independent researcher in occupational psy- chology. Cox is at UMIST. Cooper is in the Manchester School of Management at UMIST. Index.

MARKOVSKY, BARRY; HEIMER, KAREN AND O'BRIEN, JoDi, eds. Advances in group processes. Volume 12. Greenwich, Conn, and London: JAI Press, 1995. Pp. xi, 298. $73.25. ISBN 1-55938-872-2.

}EL 95-1143

Ten papers cover a broad range of substantive topics and theoretical approaches to group pro- cesses. Papers focus on social influence and re- ligious pluralism; gender differences in refer- ence groups, self-evaluations, and emotional experience among employed married parents; modeling individual perceptions of justice in stratification systems; the social psychological meaning of being a given age, sex, social class, race, religion, etc.; sexual orientation as a dif- fuse status characteristic; the determinants of top management teams; social determinants of creativity; role as resource in a prison uprising; social identification and solidarity; and mutual dependence and gift giving in exchange rela- tions. Contributors are mainly sociologists. Markovsky, Heimer, and O'Brien are at the University of Iowa. No index.

MoLANDER, CHRISTOPHER AND WINTERTON, JONATHAN. Managing human resources. Elements of Business Series. London and New York: Rout- ledge, 1994. Pp. xii, 212. $55.00, cloth; $19.95, pa- per. ISBN 0-415-06853-3, cloth; 0-415-06854-1, pbk. JEL 95-1144

Provides an introduction to human resource management for MBA students and profes- sional managers. Argues that the management of human resources in the workplace is a matter of central concern to all managers and not only to human resource management professionals. Examines the basic issues involved in organiza- tional design and the relationship between it and organization development. Discusses hu- man resource planning; dealing with unions; employees recruitment and selection; and train- ing and management development. Considers equal opportunity issues in the human resource management context. Discusses performance appraisal. Examines prevalent wage and salary payment systems, paying particular attention to merit- and performance-related payment sys- tems. Reviews factors affecting the commit- ment of employees to organizational goals and ways of raising and maintaining such commit- ment, stressing the importance of providing a good quahty of working life. Discusses collec- tive bargaining and the changing structure of bargaining in the private and public sectors. Addresses the management of discipline, griev- ances, and disputes. Examines issues of health, safety, and welfare, and how to maintain a con- genial working environment. Molander and Winterton are senior lecturers at the University of Bradford's Management Centre. Bibliog- raphy; index.