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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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Resilience to disaster: evidence from daily wellbeing data
Frijters, Paul; Johnston, David; Knott, Rachel J.; … - 2021
habitation of at-risk areas, it is important to understand people's resilience to them. We quantify resilience by estimating how … exhibit less resilience. We find no evidence that existing indices of community resilience moderate impacts. Our conclusion is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012493323
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Who is resilient in a time of crisis? : the importance of financial and non-financial resources
Johnston, David; Kung, Claryn S. J.; Shields, Michael - 2020
We identify the individual resources that predicted psychological resilience during the COVID-19 lockdown. Using UK … matching respondents on key characteristics, we find that the most important predictor of resilience is non-cognitive skills … income, wealth, cognitive ability, nor social capital predicted resilience. Our findings hold when comparing differences …
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Does worker wellbeing affect workplace performance?
Bryson, Alex; Forth, John; Stokes, Lucy - 2015
-being and workplace performance in Britain. The analyses show a clear, positive and statistically-significant relationship … between the average level of job satisfaction at the workplace and workplace performance. This finding is present in both … find no association between levels of job-related affect and workplace performance. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011281611
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Labor supply and productivity responses to non-salary benefits : do they work? ; if so, at what level do they work best?
Spencer, Marilyn K.; Gevrek, Deniz; Chambers, Valrie; … - 2015
performance. By utilizing a unique data set constructed by surveying full-time faculty and staff members at a public university in … the United States, we study the impact of this employee benefit on faculty and staff performance and retention. We focus … to explore the relationship between the impact of this low-cost employee benefit and employee performance and retention …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011289228
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What is a good job?
Eichhorst, Werner; Wozny, Florian; Mähönen, Erno - 2015
After the apparent rise of so‐called atypical and 'precarious' jobs, the quality of employment has become of interest because such employment relationships are often related to objectively or subjectively worse working conditions. In this paper we look in detail into what is known about job...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011376307
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Racial harassment, job satisfaction and intentions to quit : evidence from the British nursing profession
Shields, Michael; Wheatley Price, Stephen - 2000
This paper investigates the determinants of racial harassment at the workplace and its impact, via job satisfaction, on intentions to quit. Using data for ethnic minority nurses in Britain, we find that nearly 40% of nurses have experienced racial harassment from work colleagues, whilst more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011335236
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Sex, race, and job satisfaction among highly educated workers
Hersch, Joni; Xiao, Jean - 2015
There has been a considerable amount of work focusing on job satisfaction and sex, generally finding that women are more satisfied than men despite having objectively worse job conditions. But there is little evidence on whether job satisfaction differs by race or ethnicity. We use data from the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011346636
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Job satisfaction and employee turnover : a firm-level perspective
Frederiksen, Anders - 2015
In this paper, I study an employment situation where the employer and the employees cooperate about the implementation of a job satisfaction survey. Cooperation is valuable because it improves the firm's ability to predict employee quits, but it is only an equilibrium outcome because the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011317656
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Improving nurse retention in the British National Health Service : the impact of job satisfaction on intentions to quit
Shields, Michael; Ward-Warmedinger, Melanie - 2000
In recent years the National Health Service (NHS) in Britain has experienced an acute shortage of qualified nurses. This has placed issues of recruitment and retention in the profession high on the political agenda. In this paper we investigate the determinants of job satisfaction for nurses,...
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