-level productivity, profitability, Tobin’s Q, sales growth and survival rates. Management practices also display significant cross …

In this chapter we examine the relationship between Human Resource Management (HRM) and productivity. HRM includes … practices and productivity. We start with some facts on levels and trends of both HRM and productivity and the main economic … analyses the impact of HRM on productivity emphasizing issues of methodology, data and results (from micro-econometric studies …

Do “Anglo-Saxon” management practices generate higher productivity only at the expense of lousy work-life balance (WLB … tool that companies can use to raise productivity. We try to shed some empirical light on these issues using an innovative … the optimistic “winwin” view that work-life balance improves productivity in its own right. Rather we find support for a …

and decentralization. Productivity dispersion between firms and countries has motivated the improved measurement of firm … identification of the productivity effects of organizational practices remain a challenge for future research. …

The US has experienced a sustained increase in productivity growth since the mid-1990s, particularly in sectors that … intensively use information technologies (IT). This has not occurred in Europe. If the US “productivity miracle” is due to a … abroad. This paper shows in fact that US multinationals operating in the UK do have higher productivity than non …