This collection brings together six papers on research in personnel and human resources management, focusing on the literature on the effects of pay variation in organizations; the implications of coalition forms for work role innovation, resource reallocation, and performance; the strategic human resource implications of employee furloughs; environmental and organizational factors in performance ratings; the pattern-oriented approach to research in human resources management; and the role of reputation in the organizational sciences. Contributors are management and business specialists from the US and Hong Kong. Distributed in North America by Turpin Distribution. Annotation ©2014 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)