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DeVaro, Jed - 2024

In a new model of work schedules, employers choose the number of working hours and either dictate the exact hours to be worked or delegate that decision to workers via flextime. Workers' preferences over schedules influence their productivities. An inverted-U-shaped hours-output profile arises;...

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An experiment on creativity in virtual teams

Grund, Christian; Harbring, Christine; Klinkenberg, Lisa - 2024

The organization of work and the characteristics of tasks have undergone considerable changes in recent years. The developments include (i) an increased relevance of virtual teams and (ii) a higher demand for non-routine tasks in organizations, including creativity. Existing research on creative...

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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. - 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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Multi-task learning and the reorganization of work : from Tayloristic to holistic organization

Lindbeck, Assar; Snower, Dennis J. - 1999

The paper analyzes the contemporary organizational restructuring of production and work within firms. We emphasize the shift from a "Tayloristic" organization of work (characterized by significant specialization by tasks) to a "holistic" organization (featuring job rotation, integration of tasks...

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Culture of trust and division of labor

Meier, Stephan; Stephenson, Matthew - 2015

Firms exhibit heterogeneity in size, productivity, and internal structure, and this is true even within the same industry. It has been thought since the time of Adam Smith that a firm's internal structure affects its productivity through the channel of gains from specialization. Our paper...

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Working at home in Greece: unexplored potential at times of social distancing?

Pouliakas, Konstantinos - 2020

This paper investigates the incidence, trend and determinants of remote work in Greece. A crisis-stricken country in the years preceding the Covid-19 crisis, Greece entered the first wave of the public health shock as a laggard in digitalisation and remote work arrangements among European...

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The evolution of work from home

Barrero, Jose Maria; Bloom, Nicholas; Davis, Steven J. - 2023

Full days worked at home account for 28 percent of paid workdays among Americans 20-64 years old, as of mid 2023, according to the Survey of Working Arrangements and Attitudes. That's about four times the 2019 rate and ten times the rate in the mid-1990s that we estimate in time-use data. We...

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Multitasking and wages

Snower, Dennis J.; Goerlich, Dennis - 2013

within education groups, our theory helps to explain (1) rising wage inequality between groups, and (2) rising wage …

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Consistency in organization (updated)

Schlicht, Ekkehart - 2011

modern compensation theory, but has not been extended to organization theory. The perspective sheds new light on several … topics in the theory of the firm, like the boundaries of the firm, the importance of fairness concerns within firms, the … attenuation of incentives, or the role of routines and incentives. It implies a perceptional theory of the firm that is realistic …

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The division of labour, worker organisation, and technological change

Borghans, Lex (contributor); Weel, Bas ter (contributor) - 2005

The model developed in this paper explains differences in the division of labour across firms as a result of computer technology adoption. We find that changes in the division of labour can result both from reduced production time and from improved communication possibilities. The first shifts...

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