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Mutual gains? : is there a role for employee engagement in the modern workplace?
Bryson, Alex - 2017
employee engagement are independently associated with improvements in workplace performance. I consider the implications of the …
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What do workers want? : the shortfall in employee participation at the European workplace
Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino - 2018
A shortfall in employee voice attendant upon union decline has long been forewarned. Data from the third European Company Survey is used to establish perceived shortfalls in employee involvement based on the responses of employee representatives in establishments where formal workplace employee...
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Monetary rewards, hierarchy level and working hours as drivers of employees' self-evaluations
Grund, Christian; Soboll, Alexandra - 2023
In this study, we explore the relation between job characteristics and employees' self-evaluations of performance in … comparison to their colleagues' performance. Making use of unique individual panel data of ten large firms in Germany's chemical …
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Employee recognition and performance : a field experiment
Bradler, Christiane; Dur, Robert A. J.; Neckermann, Susanne - 2014
unannounced, public recognition on employee performance. We hired more than 300 employees to work on a three-hour data-entry task … recognition increases subsequent performance substantially, and particularly so when recognition is exclusively provided to the … best performers. Remarkably, workers who did not receive recognition are mainly responsible for this performance increase …
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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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Job design, learning & intrinsic motivation
Gibbs, Michael - 2021
learning and towards output. Learning has complex interactions with performance measurement. A higher rate of learning tends to … reduce performance measure distortion, especially for a very distorted measure. It also tends to reduce the potential for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012509688
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Job satisfaction and public service motivation
Kaiser, Lutz C. - 2014
special issue of the investigation is related to the evaluation of performance pay scales that were introduced some years ago …
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I can't get no satisfaction : the power of perceived differences in employee retention and turnover
Gevrek, Deniz; Spencer, Marilyn K.; Hudgins, David; … - 2017
This study explores the role of salary raises and the perception of employees of these salary raises on employees' intended retention and turnover. By using a unique survey data set from an American university, this study investigates a novel hypothesis that faculty perceptions of salary raises,...
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Socially useless jobs
Dur, Robert A. J.; Lent, Max van - 2018
It has been claimed that many workers in modern economies think that their job is socially useless, i.e. that it makes no or a negative contribution to society. However, the evidence so far is mainly anecdotal. We use a representative dataset comprising 100,000 workers from 47 countries at four...
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Enhancing employability by responding to work motives : lessons from a field experiment among Israeli ultra-religious women
Goldfarb, Yael; Neuman, Shoshana - 2020
Low employability among specific populations (e.g., religious/traditional women, the elderly, disabled workers, immigrants) has unfavorable consequences on the: unemployed individual, society, and the state economy. The latter include: poverty, a heavy toll on welfare budgets, diminished growth,...
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