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Health and safety risks in Britai's workplaces : where are they and who controls them?

Bryson, Alex - 2016

dealing with health and safety is linked to lower risks than direct consultation between management and employees over health …

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What role did management practices play in SME growth post-recession?

Bryson, Alex; Forth, John - 2016

, little is known about the role played by management practices in SME growth since recession. We contribute to the literature …'s Business Structure Database (BSD), with data on management practices collected in face-to-face interviews from the HR Managers …-the-job training is the only management practice that is robustly and significantly associated with higher employment growth, increased …

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When does HRM 'work' in small British enterprises?

White, Michael; Bryson, Alex - 2016

Using nationally representative workplace data we find substantial use of high-performance work systems (HPWS) in Britain's small enterprises. We find empirical support for the proposition that HPWS have a non-linear association with employees' overall job attitude, with a positive association...

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HRM and small-firm employee motivation : before and after the recession

Bryson, Alex; White, Michael - 2017

A long-running debate in the small firms' literature questions the value of formal 'human resource management' (HRM … characterizes 'high performance work systems' (HWPS) and 'strategic human resource management' (SHRM). Although the HPWS effect on …

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Does job support make workers happy?

Böckerman, Petri; Bryson, Alex; Kauhanen, Antti; … - 2017

Using linked employer-employee data for Finland we examine associations between job design and ten measures of worker wellbeing. In accordance with Karasek's (1979) model we find positive correlations between many aspects of worker wellbeing and job control. However, contrary to the model, job...

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High performance work systems and public sector workplace performance in Britain

White, Michael; Bryson, Alex - 2019

Using nationally representative surveys of workplaces with 50 or more employees we find the adoption of High-Performance Work Systems (HPWS) in the public sector are positively correlated with workplace financial performance and the implementation of workplace organizational change. The...

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The impact of high-performance work systems on employees: a sectoral comparison

White, Michael; Bryson, Alex - 2019

Using nationally representative linked employer-employee surveys of workplaces with 50 or more employees we find the adoption of High-Performance Work Systems (HPWS) in the private sector is largely positively correlated with employee job attitudes pre-recession. However, high intensity HPWS has...

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HPWS in the public sector : are there mutual gains?

White, Michael; Bryson, Alex - 2018

Few studies investigate the links between high-performance work systems (HPWS) on public sector organizational performance and worker job attitudes. We fill this gap with analyses of these links using linked employer-employee surveys of workplaces in Britain in 2004 and 2011. We find robust...

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Is pupil attainment higher in well-managed schools?

Bryson, Alex; Stokes, Lucy; Wilkinson, David - 2018

we examine whether secondary and primary schools who deploy more intensive human resource management (HRM) practices have …

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Are schools different? : wellbeing and commitment among staff in schools and elsewhere

Bryson, Alex; Stokes, Lucy; Wilkinson, David - 2018

conditioned on job quality, human resource management practices (HRM), managerial style and other features of employees' working …

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