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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 …
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should vary across firms. This study examinedwhether the relationship between HRM practices and productivity in …. Although organizational climate and HRM practices were both positivelyassociated with subsequent productivity, the relationship … between HRM practices andsubsequent productivity was stronger for firms with a poor climate. …
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Equal opportunities policies and family-friendly practices are examined using data from the 1998 Workplace Employee Relations Survey in order to assess (i) their associations with union recognition and strategic human resource management and (ii) the outcomes of what has recently been described...
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In this paper we test the HRM/union substitution hypothesis that human resource management (HRM) practices act as a substitute for unionization. We use British workplace data between 1980 and 1998 which allows us toexamine for the first time whether increased HRM incidence has coincided with...
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The HRM-performance linkage often invokes an assumption of increased employee commitment to the organization and other positive effects of a motivational type. We present a theoretical framework in which motivational effects of HRM are conditional on its intensity, utilizing especially the idea...
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More complete systems of human resource management (HRM) could deliver really extensive gains in employee motivation, according to an analysis of representative data from British workplaces by Michael White and Alex Bryson. Their research explores whether the introduction of 'high-performance...
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, employee share ownership, and stock options—and their link to productivity. It shows that shared capitalism has grown in the UK … productivity, but its impact is largest when firms combine it with other forms of shared capitalist pay and modes of organization. …
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poorer labour productivity than nonunion voice and, in particular, direct voice. On the other hand, union-based voice regimes …
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aggregation problem introduces a bias into standard measures of firm productivity. We develop a theoretical model of heterogeneous …
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productivity. The "Solow Paradox" of the absence of an impact of ICT on productivity no longer holds, if it ever did. Both growth … accounting and econometric evidence suggest an important role for ICTs in accounting for productivity. In fact, the empirical … estimates suggest a much larger impact of ICT on productivity than would be expected from the standard neoclassical model that …
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