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The division of labor, coordination, and the demand for information processing

Michaels, Guy - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

Since Adam Smith’s time, the division of labor in production has increased significantly, while information processing has become an important part of work. This paper examines whether the need to coordinate an increasingly complex division of labor has raised the demand for clerical office...

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Catching a wave: the adoption of voice and high commitment workplace practices in Britain: 1984-1998

Bryson, Alex; Gomez, Rafael; Kretschmer, Tobias - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005

In this paper we treat workplace voice and systems of high-commitment human resource management (HCHRM) as technological innovations in order to account for the uneven diffusion patterns observed across establishments. Using British data, the paper finds that variables highlighted in the...

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What do unions do to executive compensation?

Gomez, Rafael; Tzioumis, Konstantinos - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

In this paper we estimate the relation between union presence within a firm and CEO compensation, using a unique panel of publicly listed companies for the period 1992 to 2001. We find that, on average, union presence: 1) is significantly associated with lower levels of total CEO compensation;...

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The division of labor, coordination, and the demand for information processing

Michaels, Guy - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

The Division of Labour, Coordination, and the Demand for Information Processing* Since Adam Smith's time, the division of labour in production has increased significantly, while information processing has become an important part of work. This paper examines whether the need to coordinate an...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746398

Effort and comparison income: experimental and survey evidence

Clark, Andrew E.; Masclet, David; Villeval, Marie-Claire - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008

This paper considers the effect of status or relative income on work effort, combining experimental evidence from a gift-exchange game with the analysis of multi-country ISSP survey data. We find a consistent negative effect of others’ incomes on individual effort in both datasets. The...

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Direct and indirect links between organizational work-home culture and employee well-being

Beauregard, T. A. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

mediated and moderated relationships to investigate direct and indirect routes by which work-home culture may affect employee … organizational time demands have a more detrimental impact on men's well-being. Recommendations for managers to boost employee well …

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Positive employee attitudes: how much human resource management do you need?

White, Michael; Bryson, Alex - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

. Additionally, an accumulation of complementary practices has important communicative functions that intensify positive employee … attitudes. Using nationally representative linked employer–employee data for Britain, we investigate the strength and form of … range of performance measures. We find strong evidence that the relationship between employee job attitudes and our measure …

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Trading places: employers, unions and the manufacture of voice

Bryson, Alex; Gomez, Rafael; Willman, Paul - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008

Using nationally representative workplace data for Britain we show that over the last quarter century union voice – especially union-only voice – has been associated with poorer climate, more industrial action, poorer financial performance and poorer labour productivity than nonunion voice...

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Does high involvement management lead to higher pay?

Böckerman, Petri; Bryson, Alex; Ilmakunnas, Pekka - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

Using nationally representative survey data for Finnish employees linked to register data on their wages and work histories we find wage effects of high involvement management (HIM) practices are generally positive and significant. However, employees with better wage and work histories are more...

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Participation in organisations: economic approaches

Marsden, David; Cañibano, Almudena - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009

Under the auspices of the debate about high performance work systems, it has been suggested that the evidence of positive results is disappointing and that one reason is that there has been a lack of theory. This paper argues that there is indeed a great deal of theory that could be used to...

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