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Team leadership in the intensive care unit: the perspective of specialists
Reader, Tom W.; Flin, Rhona; Cuthbertson, Brian H. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011
multidisciplinary teams in the intensive care unit. Design: Semistructured interviews focusing on team leadership, crisis management … leadership behaviors (behaviors for information gathering, planning and decision-making, managing team members) were coded as … leadership. Conclusions: Intensive care unit senior physicians report using a variety of leadership behaviors to ensure high …
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The value of bosses
Lazear, Edward P.; Shaw, Kathryn L. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
How and by how much do supervisors enhance worker productivity? Using a company-based data set on the productivity of technology-based services workers, supervisor effects are estimated and found to be large. Replacing a boss who is in the lower 10% of boss quality with one who is in the upper...
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Making do with less: working harder during recessions
Lazear, Edward P.; Shaw, Kathryn L.; Stanton, Christopher - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
is correlated with the increase in the local unemployment rate, presumably reflecting the costs of losing a job. …
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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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HRM practices and knowledge processes outcomes: empirical evidence from a quasi-experiment on UK SMEs in the tourism hospitality and leisure sector
Georgiadis, Andreas; Pitelis, Christos N. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008
This paper presents empirical evidence of the relationship between human resources practices and the effectiveness of a firm to capitalise on investment in knowledge as measured by the returns to innovation and business development expenditure. The empirical design is based on exploiting a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011071541
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Reconciling workless measures at the individual and household level: theory and evidence from the United States, Britain, Germany, Spain and Australia
Gregg, Paul; Scutella, Rosanna; Wadsworth, Jonathan - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004
Individual and household based aggregate measures of worklessness can, and do, offer conflicting signals about labour market performance. We outline a means of quantifying the extent of any disparity, (polarisation), in the signals stemming from individual and household-based measures of...
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Are you happy while you work?
Bryson, Alex; MacKerron, George - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013
Recent work in psychology and economics has investigated ways in which individuals experience their lives. This literature includes influences on individuals’ momentary happiness. We contribute to this literature using a new data source, Mappiness (www.mappiness.org.uk), which permits...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745240
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Monopsony and the efficiency of labour market interventions
Manning, Alan - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2001
Implicit in many discussions of labour market policy is the assumption that, in the absence of interventions, the operation of the labour market is well-approximated by the perfectly competitive model. The merits or demerits of particular policies is then seen as a trade-off between efficiency...
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Imperfect competition in the labour market
Manning, Alan - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010
It is increasingly recognized that labour markets are pervasively imperfectly competitive, that there are rents to the employment relationship for both worker and employer. This chapter considers why it is sensible to think of labour markets as imperfectly competitive, reviews estimates on the...
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On the game-theoretic foundations of competitive search equilibrium
Galenianos, Manolis; Kircher, Philipp - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012
We provide a unified directed search framework with general production and matching specifications that encompass most of the existing literature. We prove the existence of subgame perfect Nash equilibria in pure firm strategies in a finite version of the model. We use this result to derive a...
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