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Unions and procedural justice: an alternative to the 'common rule'

Marsden, David - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

decline of ‘bureaucratic’ models of employee management and the rise of performance pay and performance management conflicts … with the common rule as management seek to tie rewards more closely to individual and organisational performance. CEP … employees regard unions as effective vehicles for procedural justice. In this way, management can achieve better operation of …

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CEO incentive contracts in China: why does city location matter?

Bryson, Alex; Forth, John; Zhou, Minghai - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

CEO incentive contracts are commonplace in China but their incidence varies significantly across Chinese cities. We show that city and provincial policy experiments help explain this variance. We examine the role of two policy experiments: the use of Special Economic Zones (SEZs) to attract...

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Hierarchic contracting

Sanchez, Miguel A.; Hortala-Vallve, Rafael - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005

We analyze the contracting structure in a moral hazard setting with several agents where output is produced jointly and is the only contractible variable. Since the salary of each agent is a function of all agents efforts, a positive externality arises between them. This externality is not...

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Is seniority-based pay used as a motivation device? Evidence from plant level data

Bayo-Moriones, Alberto; Galdon-Sanchez, Jose E.; Guell, Maia - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

more likely to engage in other human resource management policies that result in long employment relationships. Overall …

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Do organisational climate and strategic orientation moderate the relationship between human resource management practices and productivity?

Neal, Andrew; West, Michael A.; Patterson, Malcolm G. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

Contingency formulations of Human Resource Management (HRM) theory suggest that the effectiveness of HRM practices …

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The de-collectivisation of pay setting in Britain 1990-1998: incidence, determinants and impact

Charlwood, Andy - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005

Overall, collective bargaining coverage has dropped by around fourteen percentage points. This paper investigates the causes and consequences of the decline in collective bargaining in Britain between 1990 and 1998. One in three workplaces that practiced collective bargaining in 1990 had...

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It's a family affair: the effect of union recognition and human resource management on the provision of equal opportunities in the UK

Fernie, Sue; Gray, Helen - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002

Relations Survey in order to assess (i) their associations with union recognition and strategic human resource management and …'' Human Resource Management (HRM) policies are strongly associated with flexible working practices. Employees are least likely …

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Family-friendly working: what a performance! An analysis of the relationship between the availability of family-friendly policies and establishment performance

Gray, Helen - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002

This paper uses the Management and Employee Questionnaires from the 1998 Workplace Employee Relations Survey (WERS98 …

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What do we know about China's CEO's?: evidence from across the whole economy

Bryson, Alex; Zhou, Minghai - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012

All that we know about the CEO labour market in China comes from studies of public listed companies and state-owned enterprises (SOEs). This paper is the first to examine the operation of the CEO labour market across all sectors of the Chinese economy. We do so using World Bank enterprise data...

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Financial structure, managerial compensation and monitoring

Cerasi, Vittoria; Daltung, Sonja - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

When a firm has external debt and monitoring by shareholders is essential, managerial bonuses are shown to be an optimal solution. A small managerial bonus linked to firm's performance not only reduces moral hazard between managers and shareholders, but also between creditors and monitoring...

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