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Further training and affective commitment
Grund, Christian; Titz, Krystina - 2018
We investigate the relation of further training and employees' affective commitment. In doing so, we distinguish … training is associated with the affective commitment of their employees and on the other hand how individual participation in … further training relates to affective commitment. Using the Linked Personnel Panel (LPP), which is a longitudinally linked …
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Worker commitment and establishment performance
Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino - 2021
, this paper investigates the determinants of worker commitment and the potential contribution of commitment to establishment … performance. An index of worker commitment is constructed from employer perceptions of the motivation of workers and their … retention and absenteeism propensities, while the determinants of commitment are fashioned from observations taken from the …
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Staff engagement, coworkers' complementarity and employee retention : evidence from English NHS hospitals
Moscelli, Giuseppe; Sayli, Melisa; Mello, Marco - 2022
Retention of skilled workers is essential for labour-intensive organisations like hospitals, where an excessive turnover of doctors and nurses can reduce the quality and quantity of services to patients. In the public sector, where salaries are often not negotiable at individual level, workers...
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Information, preferences, and household demand for school value added
Ainsworth, Robert; Dehejia, Rajeev H.; Pop-Eleches, … - 2020
This paper examines the roles that information and preferences play in determining whether households choose schools with high value added. We study Romanian school markets using administrative data, a survey, and an experiment. The administrative data show that, on average, households could...
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Gossip and the efficiency of interactions
Fehr, Dietmar; Sutter, Matthias - 2016
Human communication in organizations often involves a large amount of gossiping about others. Here we study in an experiment whether gossip affects the efficiency of human interactions. We let subjects play a trust game. Third parties observe a trustee's behavior and can gossip about it by...
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Behavioral aspects of communication in organizations
Casoria, Fortuna; Riedl, Arno; Werner, Peter - 2020
This paper reviews experimental studies that investigate the effects of communication on behavior in organizational settings. Two main classes of studies are identified: (a) studies on coordination and competition, which include experimental research that tests whether communication can help to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012179136
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The effect of communication channels on promise-making and promise-keeping
Conrads, Julian; Reggiani, Tommaso - 2014
This paper investigates the effect of different communication channels on promise-making and promise-keeping in a helping situation. Four treatments differ with respect to the communication channel employed to solicit unincentivized cooperation, i.e., face-to-face, phone call and two different...
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Communication and trust in principal-team relationships : experimental evidence
Kleine, Marco; Kube, Sebastian - 2015
We study how upward communication - from workers to managers - about individual efforts affects the effectiveness of … team of workers, as well as between managers and workers. This manifests itself in managers being less generous with …
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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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Academics' attitudes toward engaging in public discussions - experimental evidence on the impact of engagement conditions
Püttmann, Vitus; Ruhose, Jens; Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2021
Academics are increasingly expected to engage in public discussions. We study how engagement conditions affect academics' engagement attitudes via a survey experiment among 4,091 tenured professors in Germany. Consistent with the crowding-out of intrinsic motivation, we find less-positive...
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