T C Blum
Biographic Data
| ID | 78964 |
|---|---|
| NAME | T C Blum |
| GIVEN NAMES | T C |
| FAMILY NAME | Blum |
| SIGNATURE | BLUM T C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Georgia Institute of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4089-0648 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 311 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Interactive Effects of Growth Need Strength, Work Context, and Job Complexity On Self-Reported Creative Performance
We propose that “growth need strength” is an important individual factor for employees' creative performance. Using an interactionist perspective, we examine the relationship between growth need strength and a supportive work context on self-reported creativity across a wide range of jobs that vary in complexity. Controlling for the effects of individual factors that have been previously linked to creativity (i.e., creative personality, intrinsic…
Human resource management strategies under uncertainty
Purpose To compare the tendency of US and Hong Kong Chinese companies to utilize three alternative human resource management (HRM) strategies to offset uncertainties in the supply of labor. Design/methodology/approach Data were collected from 158 US and 66 Hong Kong Chinese companies concerning the extent to which these companies engaged in training and development, monitoring and assessment of employee performance, and staffing through an intern…
Work-Family Human Resource Bundles and Perceived Organizational Performance.
Although typically excluded from strategic human resource models, bundles of work-family policies may be an HR approach related to competitive advantage. Symbolic action and resource-based views pr...
Getting ahead: Organizational practices that set boundaries around mobility patterns
An organizational level empirical analysis of career advancement in organizations was conducted on a diverse sample of 318 mid to large size worksites in Georgia, USA. Two variables were used to indicate career advancement: (1) emphasis on upward mobility of non-management employees to other non-management positions; and (2) the movement of non-management employees into management. Two sets of organizational variables are differentially related t…
Employee satisfaction in work groups with different gender composition
This study investigates the relationship between the gender composition of an employee's work group and the employee's job satisfaction, using a random sample over 1600 U.S. workers. After controlling possible confounding variables, our analysis shows that the level of an employee's job satisfaction is related to the gender composition of the employee's work group, and that the relationship of these variables does not differ between male and fema…
Assessing the Non-Random Sampling Effects of Subject Attrition in Longitudinal Research
The potential effects of attrition in longitudinal research are addressed and a procedure for assessing its effects is recommended. We recommend that researchers assess the effects of subject attrition on their data by assessing: (1) the presence of non-random sampling using multiple logistic regression, (2) mean differences on the study’s variables between those who responded and did not respond to the subsequent data collection, (3) the restric…
Job Stress, Drinking Networks, and Social Support at Work: A Comprehensive Model Of Employees' Problem Drinking Behaviors
Most research examining the problem drinking behaviors of employees has sought to demonstrate that variation in alcohol consumption derives from nonrewarding or stressful aspects of modern work tha
Organizational Structure and Job Satisfaction: Do Bureaucratic Organizations Produce more Satisfied Employees
Popular and social scientific critiques of the bureaucratic model of organizational behavior argue that employment in highly structured, bureaucratic work organizations adversely affects worker attitudes and behavior. In particular, these critics suggest that bureaucratic structure is associated with lower employee job satisfaction. Several empirical studies, however, have yielded an unexpected positive relationship between bureaucratic structure…
Organization-Level Determinants of Women in Management.
This study investigated the association of organizational characteristics with the percentage of management positions held by women in a group of medium-sized to large private sector workplaces. Re...
Presence of drug screening and employee assistance programs: Exclusive and inclusive human resource management practices
Drug screening and employee assistance programs (EAPs) are human resource management practices for addressing substance abuse among employees. The two practices reflect different human resource management strategies and lead to different outcomes for employees and applicants. Drug screening is designed to exclude drug users from the workplace whereas EAPs offer them ‘rehabilitation’. Characteristics of worksites and their surrounding labor market…
Drinking to cope and self‐medication: Characteristics of jobs in relation to workers' drinking behavior
This research extends recent studies of the relationship between characteristics of jobs and patterns of workers' alcohol consumption. Working within a ‘generalization perspective ’whereby job conditions are seen as having important effects on the mental health and behaviors of workers in non‐work settings, the current research derives and tests a model of four job‐related factors as they influence three aspects of alcohol use; the simple frequen…
Dimensions of Work
Formal intervention in employee health: Comparisons of the nature and structure of employee assistance programs and health promotion programs
Inequality and Intermarriage: A Paradox of Motive and Constraint
The Emergence of an Occupation
In 1958, Hughes developed a theory of the elements accompanying occupational emergence. This article focuses on defining and measuring the emergence and existence of an occupation. Practitioners in our study sample purvey employee assistance programs to the workplace. The jobs of 'occupational program consultants' (OPCs) were created largely with public funds during the 1970s. Now largely independent of public funding, the collectivity of OPCs of…
Occupational Health Programmes for Alcoholism in the U.S. And Australia: Dilemmas in Technology Transfer
Since the early 1970s work‐based interventions to deal with the emotional problems of workers arising from the workplace have emerged from the practitioner community. “Employee Assistance Programmes” (EAPs) have developed principally in the US and other English‐speaking cultures. A descriptive analysis of the emergence of EAPs in the US and the attempt by Australians to transfer this technology to Australia, the structure of that effort and appar…
The Social Transformation of Alcoholism Intervention: Comparisons of Job Attitudes and Performance of Recovered Alcoholics and Non-Alcoholics
Terry C. Blum, Paul M. Roman, The Social Transformation of Alcoholism Intervention: Comparisons of Job Attitudes and Performance of Recovered Alcoholics and Non-Alcoholics, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Vol. 26, No. 4 (Dec., 1985), pp. 365-378
Commuter Marriage: A Study of Work and Family
Structural Constraints on Interpersonal Relations: A Test of Blau's Macrosociological Theory
Blau's macrostructural theory focuses on explanation of rates of social contacts between people with different social characteristics. The theory is composed of two analytically distinct categories of social structure. One category is distributional; that is, it refers to properties that emerger from size distributions of social characteristics. The other is a social network approach to social interactions. This article uses Fischer's data collec…
Racial Inequality and Salience: An Examination of Blau's Theory of Social Structure
Homeownership and Social Attachment
A multivariate analysis of survey data collected by Claude Fischer (1982) in northern California is used to test whether or not homeownership is associated with attitudes and behaviors that seem supportive of the prevailing social order. Homeownership has a zero-order relationship with each of three indicators of 'social attachment': Attitudes indicative of traditionalism; participation in voluntary organizations; and informal interaction with ne…
Heterogeneity and Intermarriage
public use sample of the 1970 U.S. Census. The two theoretical predictions are: (1) a group's relative size is inversely related to the proportion of its members who are outmarried; and (2) an SMSA's heterogeneity is directly related to the rate of intermarriage in it. The underlying assumption is that the structural constraints of size distributions affect marriage notwithstanding cultural values promoting ingroup marriages. The data confirm the…
Heterogeneity and Intermarriage
public use sample of the 1970 U.S. Census. The two theoretical predictions are: (1) a group's relative size is inversely related to the proportion of its members who are outmarried; and (2) an SMSA's heterogeneity is directly related to the rate of intermarriage in it. The underlying assumption is that the structural constraints of size distributions affect marriage notwithstanding cultural values promoting ingroup marriages. The data confirm the…
Homeownership and Social Attachment
A multivariate analysis of survey data collected by Claude Fischer (1982) in northern California is used to test whether or not homeownership is associated with attitudes and behaviors that seem supportive of the prevailing social order. Homeownership has a zero-order relationship with each of three indicators of 'social attachment': Attitudes indicative of traditionalism; participation in voluntary organizations; and informal interaction with ne…
Structural Constraints on Interpersonal Relations: A Test of Blau's Macrosociological Theory
Blau's macrostructural theory focuses on explanation of rates of social contacts between people with different social characteristics. The theory is composed of two analytically distinct categories of social structure. One category is distributional; that is, it refers to properties that emerger from size distributions of social characteristics. The other is a social network approach to social interactions. This article uses Fischer's data collec…
Drinking to cope and self‐medication: Characteristics of jobs in relation to workers' drinking behavior
This research extends recent studies of the relationship between characteristics of jobs and patterns of workers' alcohol consumption. Working within a ‘generalization perspective ’whereby job conditions are seen as having important effects on the mental health and behaviors of workers in non‐work settings, the current research derives and tests a model of four job‐related factors as they influence three aspects of alcohol use; the simple frequen…
Job Stress, Drinking Networks, and Social Support at Work: A Comprehensive Model Of Employees' Problem Drinking Behaviors
Most research examining the problem drinking behaviors of employees has sought to demonstrate that variation in alcohol consumption derives from nonrewarding or stressful aspects of modern work tha
Racial Inequality and Salience: An Examination of Blau's Theory of Social Structure
Organizational Structure and Job Satisfaction: Do Bureaucratic Organizations Produce more Satisfied Employees
Popular and social scientific critiques of the bureaucratic model of organizational behavior argue that employment in highly structured, bureaucratic work organizations adversely affects worker attitudes and behavior. In particular, these critics suggest that bureaucratic structure is associated with lower employee job satisfaction. Several empirical studies, however, have yielded an unexpected positive relationship between bureaucratic structure…
Inequality and Intermarriage: A Paradox of Motive and Constraint
Formal intervention in employee health: Comparisons of the nature and structure of employee assistance programs and health promotion programs
The Emergence of an Occupation
In 1958, Hughes developed a theory of the elements accompanying occupational emergence. This article focuses on defining and measuring the emergence and existence of an occupation. Practitioners in our study sample purvey employee assistance programs to the workplace. The jobs of 'occupational program consultants' (OPCs) were created largely with public funds during the 1970s. Now largely independent of public funding, the collectivity of OPCs of…
The Social Transformation of Alcoholism Intervention: Comparisons of Job Attitudes and Performance of Recovered Alcoholics and Non-Alcoholics
Terry C. Blum, Paul M. Roman, The Social Transformation of Alcoholism Intervention: Comparisons of Job Attitudes and Performance of Recovered Alcoholics and Non-Alcoholics, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Vol. 26, No. 4 (Dec., 1985), pp. 365-378
Heterogeneity and Intermarriage
public use sample of the 1970 U.S. Census. The two theoretical predictions are: (1) a group's relative size is inversely related to the proportion of its members who are outmarried; and (2) an SMSA's heterogeneity is directly related to the rate of intermarriage in it. The underlying assumption is that the structural constraints of size distributions affect marriage notwithstanding cultural values promoting ingroup marriages. The data confirm the…
Racial Inequality and Salience: An Examination of Blau's Theory of Social Structure
Homeownership and Social Attachment
A multivariate analysis of survey data collected by Claude Fischer (1982) in northern California is used to test whether or not homeownership is associated with attitudes and behaviors that seem supportive of the prevailing social order. Homeownership has a zero-order relationship with each of three indicators of 'social attachment': Attitudes indicative of traditionalism; participation in voluntary organizations; and informal interaction with ne…
The Social Transformation of Alcoholism Intervention: Comparisons of Job Attitudes and Performance of Recovered Alcoholics and Non-Alcoholics
Terry C. Blum, Paul M. Roman, The Social Transformation of Alcoholism Intervention: Comparisons of Job Attitudes and Performance of Recovered Alcoholics and Non-Alcoholics, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Vol. 26, No. 4 (Dec., 1985), pp. 365-378
Commuter Marriage: A Study of Work and Family
Structural Constraints on Interpersonal Relations: A Test of Blau's Macrosociological Theory
Blau's macrostructural theory focuses on explanation of rates of social contacts between people with different social characteristics. The theory is composed of two analytically distinct categories of social structure. One category is distributional; that is, it refers to properties that emerger from size distributions of social characteristics. The other is a social network approach to social interactions. This article uses Fischer's data collec…
Occupational Health Programmes for Alcoholism in the U.S. And Australia: Dilemmas in Technology Transfer
Since the early 1970s work‐based interventions to deal with the emotional problems of workers arising from the workplace have emerged from the practitioner community. “Employee Assistance Programmes” (EAPs) have developed principally in the US and other English‐speaking cultures. A descriptive analysis of the emergence of EAPs in the US and the attempt by Australians to transfer this technology to Australia, the structure of that effort and appar…
Formal intervention in employee health: Comparisons of the nature and structure of employee assistance programs and health promotion programs
Inequality and Intermarriage: A Paradox of Motive and Constraint
The Emergence of an Occupation
In 1958, Hughes developed a theory of the elements accompanying occupational emergence. This article focuses on defining and measuring the emergence and existence of an occupation. Practitioners in our study sample purvey employee assistance programs to the workplace. The jobs of 'occupational program consultants' (OPCs) were created largely with public funds during the 1970s. Now largely independent of public funding, the collectivity of OPCs of…
Dimensions of Work
Drinking to cope and self‐medication: Characteristics of jobs in relation to workers' drinking behavior
This research extends recent studies of the relationship between characteristics of jobs and patterns of workers' alcohol consumption. Working within a ‘generalization perspective ’whereby job conditions are seen as having important effects on the mental health and behaviors of workers in non‐work settings, the current research derives and tests a model of four job‐related factors as they influence three aspects of alcohol use; the simple frequen…
Organization-Level Determinants of Women in Management.
This study investigated the association of organizational characteristics with the percentage of management positions held by women in a group of medium-sized to large private sector workplaces. Re...
Presence of drug screening and employee assistance programs: Exclusive and inclusive human resource management practices
Drug screening and employee assistance programs (EAPs) are human resource management practices for addressing substance abuse among employees. The two practices reflect different human resource management strategies and lead to different outcomes for employees and applicants. Drug screening is designed to exclude drug users from the workplace whereas EAPs offer them ‘rehabilitation’. Characteristics of worksites and their surrounding labor market…
Organizational Structure and Job Satisfaction: Do Bureaucratic Organizations Produce more Satisfied Employees
Popular and social scientific critiques of the bureaucratic model of organizational behavior argue that employment in highly structured, bureaucratic work organizations adversely affects worker attitudes and behavior. In particular, these critics suggest that bureaucratic structure is associated with lower employee job satisfaction. Several empirical studies, however, have yielded an unexpected positive relationship between bureaucratic structure…
Assessing the Non-Random Sampling Effects of Subject Attrition in Longitudinal Research
The potential effects of attrition in longitudinal research are addressed and a procedure for assessing its effects is recommended. We recommend that researchers assess the effects of subject attrition on their data by assessing: (1) the presence of non-random sampling using multiple logistic regression, (2) mean differences on the study’s variables between those who responded and did not respond to the subsequent data collection, (3) the restric…
Job Stress, Drinking Networks, and Social Support at Work: A Comprehensive Model Of Employees' Problem Drinking Behaviors
Most research examining the problem drinking behaviors of employees has sought to demonstrate that variation in alcohol consumption derives from nonrewarding or stressful aspects of modern work tha
Employee satisfaction in work groups with different gender composition
This study investigates the relationship between the gender composition of an employee's work group and the employee's job satisfaction, using a random sample over 1600 U.S. workers. After controlling possible confounding variables, our analysis shows that the level of an employee's job satisfaction is related to the gender composition of the employee's work group, and that the relationship of these variables does not differ between male and fema…
Work-Family Human Resource Bundles and Perceived Organizational Performance.
Although typically excluded from strategic human resource models, bundles of work-family policies may be an HR approach related to competitive advantage. Symbolic action and resource-based views pr...
Getting ahead: Organizational practices that set boundaries around mobility patterns
An organizational level empirical analysis of career advancement in organizations was conducted on a diverse sample of 318 mid to large size worksites in Georgia, USA. Two variables were used to indicate career advancement: (1) emphasis on upward mobility of non-management employees to other non-management positions; and (2) the movement of non-management employees into management. Two sets of organizational variables are differentially related t…
Human resource management strategies under uncertainty
Purpose To compare the tendency of US and Hong Kong Chinese companies to utilize three alternative human resource management (HRM) strategies to offset uncertainties in the supply of labor. Design/methodology/approach Data were collected from 158 US and 66 Hong Kong Chinese companies concerning the extent to which these companies engaged in training and development, monitoring and assessment of employee performance, and staffing through an intern…
Interactive Effects of Growth Need Strength, Work Context, and Job Complexity On Self-Reported Creative Performance
We propose that “growth need strength” is an important individual factor for employees' creative performance. Using an interactionist perspective, we examine the relationship between growth need strength and a supportive work context on self-reported creativity across a wide range of jobs that vary in complexity. Controlling for the effects of individual factors that have been previously linked to creativity (i.e., creative personality, intrinsic…
Psychology (17 works) · Social Psychology (12 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Economics (10 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · Business (6 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (6 works) · Mathematics (6 works) · Public relations (6 works)