Are some management practices akin to a technology that can explain company and national productivity, or do they … simply reflect contingent management styles? We collect data on core management practices from over 11,000 firms in 34 … countries. We find large cross-country differences in the adoption of basic management practices, with the US having the highest …

related to the change in their management performance. Using new and unique data from a recent large scale firm survey of … management practices in Germany, we calculate management scores for firms as in Bloom et al. (2013). These indicate how … structured management is in a given firm. We find that switching into exporting, and to a lesser degree opening up affiliates …

management as a technology approach for all EU nations in a framework that explicitly recognizes worker representation while … establishments with better management practices and that, controlling for management practices and worker representation, the …, the evidence suggests that the selected management practices are likely to be favorable to performance in plants with and …

A long-running debate in the small firms' literature questions the value of formal 'human resource management' (HRM … characterizes 'high performance work systems' (HWPS) and 'strategic human resource management' (SHRM). Although the HPWS effect on …

we examine whether secondary and primary schools who deploy more intensive human resource management (HRM) practices have …

conditioned on job quality, human resource management practices (HRM), managerial style and other features of employees' working …

support this contention when examining the prevalence of modern human resource management (HRM) practices in schools. Rather …

using measures of workplace performance that are common across all workplaces. We focus on the role played by management …

, 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 … between human resource management (HRM) intensity and various employee job attitudes. I also find the intensity of HRM use and …