The same yet different: Worker reports on labour practices and outcomes in a single firm across countries
This paper examines cross-country differences in labour policies and practices and employee performance and attitudes toward work from a sample of nearly 30,000 employees in a large multinational manufacturing firm. The analysis shows: 1) large establishment and country differences in work practices, performance, and attitudes toward work across countries; 2) qualitatively similar responses of workers to work practices across countries; 3) a strong link between the establishment average of employee reports on the quality of labour-management relations and establishment average measures of employee performance 4) a positive relation between average employee performance and average employee-management relations at the country level, but no relation between country level performance in the firm and measures of the extent of national labour regulations or practices.
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2008
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Authors: | Freeman, Richard B. ; Kruse, Douglas ; Blasi, Joseph |
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Labour Economics. - Elsevier, ISSN 0927-5371. - Vol. 15.2008, 4, p. 749-770
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Publisher: |
Elsevier |
Keywords: | Labor relations practices Workplace performance Multinational Cross country comparisons High performance work systems |
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