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HRM and small-firm employee motivation : before and after the recession
Bryson, Alex; White, Michael - 2017
measures of motivation we find the returns to small firm investments in HRM are u-shaped. Small firms benefit from … are initially introduced, but can restore positive motivation when they invest intensively in HRM practices in a way that … employee motivation is modified somewhat by the recessionary transition, it remains rather robust and continues to have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011647504
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Teacher preferences, working conditions, and compensation structure
Johnston, Andrew - 2020
Improving schools depends on attracting high-caliber teachers and increasing retention, both made possible by appealing to teacher preferences. I deploy a discrete-choice experiment in a setting where teachers have reason to reveal their preferences. There are three main findings: (1) I...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012201018
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What makes work meaningful and why economists should care about it
Nikolova, Milena; Cnossen, Femke - 2020
relatedness as preconditions for motivation, we are the first to explore the determinants of work meaningfulness. Specifically …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012199176
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Disentangling the role of contract types and sector disparities for public service motivation
Grund, Christian; Thommes, Kirsten - 2015
specific public service motivation (PSM) is shaped. In our paper, we analyze how different degrees of inclusion in the public …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011346559
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Rules, preferences and evolution from the family angle
Cigno, Alessandro - 2021
This paper reviews the literature concerning the evolution of cultural traits in general and preferences in particular, and the emergence and persistence of rules or norms, from a family perspective. In models where every new person is effectively the clone of an existing one (either a parent or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012603203
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011950525
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A happy choice: wellbeing as the goal of government
Frijters, Paul; Clark, Andrew E.; Krekel, Christian; … - 2019
In this article, we lay out the basic case for wellbeing as the goal of government. We briefly review the history of this idea, which goes back to the ancient Greeks and was the acknowledged ideal of the Enlightenment. We then discuss possible measures on which a wellbeing orientation could be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012129995
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Ceding control : an experimental analysis of participatory management
Mellizo, Philip; Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Matthews, Peter Hans - 2017
We use an experiment to evaluate the effects of participatory management on firm performance. Participants are randomly assigned roles as managers or workers in firms that generate output via real effort. To identify the causal effect of participation on effort, workers are exogenously assigned...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011613160
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Serving the public interest in several ways : theory and empirics
Dur, Robert A. J.; Lent, Max van - 2017
We develop a model where people differ in their altruistic preferences and can serve the public interest in two ways: by making donations to charity and by taking a public service job and exerting effort on the job. Our theory predicts that people who are more altruistic are more likely to take...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011738885
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Are public sector workers different? : cross-European evidence from elderly workers and retirees
Tonin, Mirco; Vlassopoulos, Michael - 2014
their public service motivation, as measured by their propensity to volunteer, using a representative sample of elderly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010364490