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Worker commitment and establishment performance

Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino - 2021

, this paper investigates the determinants of worker commitment and the potential contribution of commitment to establishment … performance. An index of worker commitment is constructed from employer perceptions of the motivation of workers and their … retention and absenteeism propensities, while the determinants of commitment are fashioned from observations taken from the …

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Further training and affective commitment

Grund, Christian; Titz, Krystina - 2018

We investigate the relation of further training and employees' affective commitment. In doing so, we distinguish … training is associated with the affective commitment of their employees and on the other hand how individual participation in … further training relates to affective commitment. Using the Linked Personnel Panel (LPP), which is a longitudinally linked …

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

Bryson, Alex; White, Michael - 2017

employer-employee surveys for 2004 and 2011. Using employees' intrinsic job satisfaction and organizational commitment as …

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

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

commitment are linked to improvements in workplace performance in schools, but not in other workplaces. …

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Climbing the ladders of job satisfaction and employees' organizational commitment : a semi-nonparametric approach

Vieira, José António Cabral - 2019

practices? Furthermore, is employee commitment totally explained by satisfaction, or do further factors promote it? This paper … employees' commitment (and consequently business success) but does not fully exhaust the explanation of such behavior. The …

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Religion and innovation

Bénabou, Roland; Ticchi, Davide; Vindigni, Andrea - 2015

In earlier work (Bénabou, Ticchi and Vindigni 2013) we uncovered a robust negative association between religiosity and patents per capita, holding across countries as well as US states, with and without controls. In this paper we turn to the individual level, examining the relationship between...

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(Successful) democracies breed their own support

Acemoglu, Daron; Ajzenman, Nicolas; Aksoy, Cevat Giray; … - 2021

Using large-scale survey data covering more than 110 countries and exploiting within-country variation across cohorts and surveys, we show that individuals with longer exposure to democracy display stronger support for democratic institutions. We bolster these baseline findings using an...

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Happiness, domains of life satisfaction, perceptions, and valuation differences across genders

Milovanska-Farrington, Stefani; Farrington, Stephen - 2021

Happiness is strongly associated with goal attainment, productivity, mental health and suicidal risk. This paper examines the effect of satisfaction with areas of life on subjective well-being (SWB), the importance of relative perceptions compared to absolute measures in predicting overall life...

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