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Job design and skill developments in the workplace
Russo, Giovanni - 2016
increase in work experience (tenure). The analysis stresses the importance of on-the-job learning and contextual workplace …
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Coevolution of job automation risk and workplace governance
Belloc, Filippo; Burdín, Gabriel; Cattani, Luca; … - 2021
risk. We propose an evolutionary model to study the complementary fit of job design and workplace governance as resulting … are likely to emerge in our framework: in one, workplace governance is based on ER and job designs have low automation …
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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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Job design, learning & intrinsic motivation
Gibbs, Michael - 2021
According to psychologists and neuroscientists, a key source of intrinsic motivation is learning. An economic model of this is presented. Learning may make work less onerous, or the employee may value it in and of itself. Multitasking generates learning: performing one task increases...
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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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Gender differences in preferences for meaning at work
Burbano, Vanessa; Padilla, Nicolas; Meier, Stephan - 2020
In an effort to better understand occupational segregation by gender, scholars have begun to examine gender differences in preferences for job characteristics. We contend that a critical job characteristic has been overlooked to date: meaning at work; and in particular, meaning at work induced...
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Medical brain drain : assessing the role of job attributes and individual traits
Bertoni, Marco; Chattopadhyay, Debdeep; Gu, Yuanyuan - 2023
We study physicians' migration intentions by undertaking a Discrete Choice Experiment with senior Italian medical students. Using the mixed logit models, we estimate how much income students are willing to forego for various job characteristics, including the job location. We find that future...
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Innovation and communication media in virtual teams - an experimental study
Grözinger, Nicola; Irlenbusch, Bernd; Laske, Katharina; … - 2020
In a novel real-effort setting, we experimentally study the effects of different communication media on creative performance in a collaborative tasks. We find that creative performance significantly decreases when group members communicate via chat instead of face-to-face. However, we find no...
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An experiment on creativity in virtual teams
Grund, Christian; Harbring, Christine; Klinkenberg, Lisa - 2024
the formation phase of teams. This formation phase is particularly relevant for teams working in a virtual workplace … models ascend, also for teams. Therefore, we examine the influence of workplace settings and changes in these settings on … creative performance of teams. We also investigate whether the individuals' ability to choose their workplace affects creative …
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Identities, conflicting behavioural norms and the importance of job attributes
Russo, Giovanni; Hooft, Edwin A. J. van - 2009
The paper empirically expounds the richness of the identity approach to labor market behavior by allowing individuals to experience identity conflict. Specifically, it investigates the relationship between the importance individuals attach to labor-market activities - which is influenced by the...
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