Personnel department expenditures and labor productivity

Empirical evidence relating personnel department budgets to desired organizational outcomes remains sketchy and inconclusive. An analysis was conducted of the relationship between previous year's personnel department expenditures and total annual output, for 11 large railroads over a six-year p...

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Published inJournal of organizational behavior Vol. 16; no. 2; pp. 183 - 190
Main Authors Eastwood, Karen, Rudin, Joel P., Lee, Ten Pao
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Chichester John Wiley & Sons, Ltd 01.03.1995
John Wiley and Sons
Wiley
Wiley Periodicals Inc
Subjects
Budget allocation
Correlations
Departments
Expenditure
Expenditures
Factors
Financial budgets
Freight
Human resource management
Human resources
Labor productivity
Organizational behavior
Personnel management
Productivity
Rail industry
Railroad deregulation
Railroads
Railway systems
Railways
Regression analysis
Studies
USA
United States > US
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Summary:Empirical evidence relating personnel department budgets to desired organizational outcomes remains sketchy and inconclusive. An analysis was conducted of the relationship between previous year's personnel department expenditures and total annual output, for 11 large railroads over a six-year period. There was a significant partial correlation between these two variables. However, after controlling for total assets and workforce size, a regression analysis indicated that individual railroads were unable to adjust their personnel department expenditures over time to maximize productivity. Implications for research and practice are discussed.
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ISSN:0894-3796
1099-1379
DOI:10.1002/job.4030160208