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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 … working, involvement in decision-making at workplace or firm level, and financial participation – and present empirical … employee engagement are independently associated with improvements in workplace performance. I consider the implications of the …
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
workplace effort, thereby integrating this concept into the field of labor economics. Work orientations, the intrinsic beliefs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014525991
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Socially useless jobs
Dur, Robert A. J.; Lent, Max van - 2018
It has been claimed that many workers in modern economies think that their job is socially useless, i.e. that it makes no or a negative contribution to society. However, the evidence so far is mainly anecdotal. We use a representative dataset comprising 100,000 workers from 47 countries at four...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011946895
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High performance workplaces and family friendly practices : promises made and promises kept
Heywood, John S. (contributor);  … - 2005
High performance workplaces elicit greater involvement and productivity from employees but past theory and evidence remain divided on whether or not such workplaces are compatible with family friendly work practices. We present new evidence on the association using perceptions of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003158656
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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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I can't get no satisfaction : the power of perceived differences in employee retention and turnover
Gevrek, Deniz; Spencer, Marilyn K.; Hudgins, David; … - 2017
This study explores the role of salary raises and the perception of employees of these salary raises on employees' intended retention and turnover. By using a unique survey data set from an American university, this study investigates a novel hypothesis that faculty perceptions of salary raises,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011613161
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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
novel policy (borrowed from the field of Career Psychology) that could lead to successful integration into the labor market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012162651
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Competition, cooperation, and corporate culture
Kosfeld, Michael (contributor);  … - 2007
Teamwork and cooperation between workers can be of substantial value to a firm, yet the level of worker cooperation often varies between individual firms. We show that these differences can be the result of labor market competition if workers have heterogeneous preferences and preferences are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003603601
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Job satisfaction and co-worker wages : status or signal?
Clark, Andrew E. (contributor);  … - 2007
This paper uses matched employer-employee panel data to show that individual job satisfaction is higher when other workers in the same establishment are better-paid. This runs contrary to a large literature which has found evidence of income comparisons in subjective well-being. We argue that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003561635
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Workplace performance, worker commitment and loyalty
Brown, Sarah; McHardy, Jolian P.; McNabb, Robert; … - 2011
Using matched employer-employee level data drawn from the 2004 UK Workplace and Employee Relations Survey, we explore … the determinants of a measure of worker commitment and loyalty (CLI) and whether CLI influences workplace performance …. Factors influencing employee commitment and loyalty include age and gender, whilst workplace level characteristics of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009125021