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Gift exchange in the workplace : money or attention?
Dur, Robert A. J. (contributor) - 2008
convinced that their manager cares for them. Managers can signal their altruistic feelings towards their employees in two ways … altruistic managers may offer lower wages and nevertheless build up better social-exchange relationships with their employees … than egoistic managers do. In such equilibria, a low wage signals to employees that the manager has something else to offer …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003778476
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Job satisfaction and public service motivation
Kaiser, Lutz C. - 2014
Based on a unique case study-dataset, the paper analyses job satisfaction and public service motivation in Germany. A special issue of the investigation is related to the evaluation of performance pay scales that were introduced some years ago to German public employees within the frame of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010239262
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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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012162651
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Examining the relationship between employee resistance to changes in job conditions and wider organisational change : evidence from Ireland
Cronin, Hugh; McGuinness, Séamus - 2014
This paper uses a linked employer-employee dataset, the National Employment Survey, to examine the determinants of organisational change and employee resistance to change and, specifically, to examine the influence of employee inflexibility on the implementation of firm-level policies aimed at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010404045
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Mutual gains? : is there a role for employee engagement in the modern workplace?
Bryson, Alex - 2017
I examine the history of employee engagement and how it has been characterised by thinkers in sociology, psychology …, management and economics. I suggest that, while employers may choose to invest in employee engagement, there are alternative … management strategies that may be profit-maximising. I identify four elements of employee engagement – job 'flow', autonomous …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011756755
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Loud or quiet quitting? : the influence of work orientations on effort and turnover
Nikolova, Milena - 2024
This study examines work orientations as a novel determinant influencing job search behaviors, quit intentions, and workplace effort, thereby integrating this concept into the field of labor economics. Work orientations, the intrinsic beliefs regarding the role of work in one's life, relate to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014525991
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HRM and small-firm employee motivation : before and after the recession
Bryson, Alex; White, Michael - 2017
A long-running debate in the small firms' literature questions the value of formal 'human resource management' (HRM) practices which have been linked to high performance in larger firms. We contribute to this literature by exploiting linked employer-employee surveys for 2004 and 2011. Using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011647504
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Work meaningfulness and effort
Cnossen, Femke; Nikolova, Milena - 2024
Self-determination theory posits that individuals are motivated at work when their inherent psychological needs for competence, autonomy, and relatedness are satisfied. Drawing on this theory, this paper presents a new conceptual model explaining how work meaningfulness influences effort at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014637378
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Boss competence and worker well-being
Artz, Benjamin; Goodall, Amanda H.; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2014
Nearly all workers have a supervisor or 'boss'. Yet there is almost no published research by economists into how bosses affect the quality of employees' lives. This study offers some of the first formal evidence. First, it is shown that a boss's technical competence is the single strongest...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010417963
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How common are bad bosses?
Artz, Benjamin; Goodall, Amanda H.; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2018
people promoted to be managers, team leaders, and supervisors? Gallup data and the famous Peter Principle both suggest that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011913230