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Complex job design and layers of hierarchy
Russo, Giovanni; Houten, Gijs van - 2021
The main function of hierarchies is to coordinate activities within an organisation, but a hierarchical structure also provides work incentives, by offering the prospect of hierarchical mobility. An alternative way for organisations to motivate workers is through job design. In organisations...
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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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Consistency in organization
Schlicht, Ekkehart (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
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Non-compete agreements, tacit knowledge and market imperfections
Bartelsman, Eric J.; Dobbelaere, Sabien; Zona Mattioli, … - 2024
This paper provides evidence from a natural experiment on the importance of workers' tacit knowledge about firms' intangible assets for competition in product and labor markets. Evidence is presented on product and labor market imperfections across manufacturing and services firms in the...
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Rising work complexity but decreasing returns
Pikos, Anna Katharina; Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2016
Work complexity can be an important factor contributing to the observed employment and wage developments. Using German data, we find that it increased substantially between 1986 and 2012. Work complexity was higher for high-educated employees in the past but differences have leveled out in 2012...
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Complex production processes and wage inequality
Pekkarinen, Tuomas (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
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Skills, tasks, and complexity
Gersbach, Hans; Schmassmann, Samuel - 2019
We introduce a new task-based framework to describe production. It focuses on the fact that certain tasks are too complex for many workers to perform. In such an environment, the relationship between wages of workers may significantly differ from their relative productivities. The labor market...
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The division of labor and the market for organizations
Lindbeck, Assar; Snower, Dennis J. - 2000
The paper examines the determinants of the division of labor within firms. It provides an explanation of the pervasive observed changes in work organization away from the traditional functional departments and towards multi-tasking and job rotation. Whereas the existing literature on the...
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Can you trust the good guys? : trust within and between groups with different missions
Fehrler, Sebastian; Kosfeld, Michael - 2013
the missions they identify themselves with. -- social identity theory ; group identity ; trust ; trustworthiness …
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The organizational economics of school chains
Neri, Lorenzo; Pasini, Elisabetta; Silva, Olmo - 2022
Although school autonomy is often advocated as a way to improve student achievement, many countries are experiencing a counterbalancing trend: the emergence of 'chains' that bind schools together into structures with varying degrees of centralization. Despite their prominence, no evidence exists...
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