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Steering towards the High Road: A Study of Human Resource Management in Two Indian Garment Factories

Lake, Henrietta - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

low-wage environment, HRM and work organization have a tangible and independent impact on performance. …

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Monkey Bars and Ladders: The Importance of Lateral and Vertical Job Mobility in Internal Labor Market Careers

Dohmen, Thomas J.; Kriechel, Ben; Pfann, Gerard A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

The research area of the new economics of personnel has a short but important and insightful history. Theory ahead of measurement asks for testing newly developed human resource concepts. These tests often need detailed firm-specific data. Repetition and comparison of results is key in finding...

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Adverse Workplace Conditions, High-Involvement Work Practices and Labor Turnover: Evidence from Danish Linked Employer-Employee Data

Cottini, Elena; Kato, Takao; Nielsen, Niels Westergaard - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

, adverse workplace conditions and HRM environments. We find evidence that workers in hazardous workplace conditions are indeed …

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"Employability-Miles" and Worker Employability Awareness

Gerards, Ruud; de Grip, Andries; Witlox, Maaike - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This article studies the use and impact of a firm-sponsored training ("Employability-miles") voucher scheme that aims to stimulate employees to develop a more active attitude toward their own employability. Using data from two surveys of the firm's workforce, we find that voucher use is related...

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Who Lives in the C-Suite? Organizational Structure and the Division of Labor in Top Management

Guadalupe, Maria; Li, Hongyi; Wulf, Julie M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This paper shows that top management structures in large US firms radically changed since the mid-1980s. While the number of managers reporting directly to the CEO doubled, the growth was driven primarily by functional managers rather than general managers. Using panel data on senior management...

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The Effect of Communication Channels on Promise-Making and Promise-Keeping

Conrads, Julian; Reggiani, Tommaso - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This paper investigates the effect of different communication channels on promise-making and promise-keeping in a … helping situation. Four treatments differ with respect to the communication channel employed to solicit unincentivized … cooperation, i.e., face-to-face, phone call and two different sorts of computer-mediated communication. The less anonymous (face …

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Communication and Coordination in a Two-Stage Game

Bjedov, Tjaša; Madies, Thierry; Villeval, Marie Claire - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

We study the impact of communication on behavior in a two-stage coordination game with asymmetric payoffs. We test … sustain coordination over time and alleviate the inequality induced by the asymmetry of payoffs. Third, communication …

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The Role of Salience in Performance Schemes: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Englmaier, Florian; Roider, Andreas; Sunde, Uwe - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

in quantity and quality of output. We use data from a controlled field experiment that changed the communication of the …

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Quitting and Peer Effects at Work

Rosaz, Julie; Slonim, Robert; Villeval, Marie Claire - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

working conditions causes workers to quit at more similar times. When, and only when, communication is allowed, workers are …

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Role Selection and Team Performance

Cooper, David J.; Sutter, Matthias - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

Team success relies on assigning team members to the right tasks. We use controlled experiments to study how roles are assigned within teams and how this affects team performance. Subjects play the takeover game in pairs consisting of a buyer and a seller. Understanding optimal play is very...

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