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Czura, Kristina; Englmaier, Florian; Ho, Hoa; Spantig, Lisa - 2024

The positive role of transformational leadership for productivity and mental wellbeing has long been established. Transformational leadership behavior may be particularly suited to navigate times of crisis which are characterized by high levels of complexity and uncertainty. We exploit...

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Helping and antisocial behavior in the workplace

Haylock, Michael Robert; Kampkötter, Patrick; Kosfeld, … - 2023

We offer a comprehensive analysis of the organizational and behavioral foundations of employees' helping and antisocial behavior as an integral part of a firm's workplace culture and working climate. Using representative employer-employee panel data of larger German private-sector firms, we...

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Workplace democracy in the lab

Mellizo, Philip; Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Matthews, Peter Hans - 2011

While intuition suggests that empowering workers to have some say in the control of the firm is likely to have beneficial incentive effects, empirical evidence of such an effect is hard to come by because of numerous confounding factors in the naturally occurring data. We report evidence from a...

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Management practices, worker commitment, and workplace representation

Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino - 2020

Using multilevel mixed effects ordered logistic models, this paper conducts an original investigation of the new management as a technology approach for all EU nations in a framework that explicitly recognizes worker representation while incorporating the notion of affective commitment. It is...

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Workplace employee representation and industrial relations performance : new evidence from the 2013 European company survey

Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino - 2017

Using cross-country data from the European Company Survey, we investigate the relationship between workplace employee representation and five behavioral outcomes: strike incidence, the climate of industrial relations, sickness/absenteeism, employee motivation, and staff retention. The evidence...

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Ceding control : an experimental analysis of participatory management

Mellizo, Philip; Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Matthews, Peter Hans - 2017

We use an experiment to evaluate the effects of participatory management on firm performance. Participants are randomly assigned roles as managers or workers in firms that generate output via real effort. To identify the causal effect of participation on effort, workers are exogenously assigned...

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The lure of authority : motivation and incentive effects of power

Fehr, Ernst; Herz, Holger; Wilkening, Tom - 2012

Authority and power permeate political, social, and economic life, but empirical knowledge about the motivational origins and consequences of authority is limited. We study the motivation and incentive effects of authority experimentally in an authority-delegation game. Individuals often retain...

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Labor-market conditions and leadership styles

Dur, Robert A. J.; Kvaløy, Ola; Schöttner, Anja - 2020

Why do some leaders use praise as a means to motivate workers, while other leaders use social punishment? This paper develops a simple economic model to examine how leadership styles depend on the prevailing labor-market conditions for workers. We show that the existence of a binding wage floor...

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What does codetermination do?

Jäger, Simon; Noy, Shakked; Schoefer, Benjamin - 2021

We provide a comprehensive overview of codetermination, i.e., worker representation in firms' governance and management … that existing quasi-experimental estimates suggest that codetermination has zero or very small positive effects on worker … codetermination laws using novel cross-country event studies exploiting a series of codetermination reforms between the 1960s and 2010 …

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Works councils : sand or grease in the operation of German firms

Schank, Thorsten; Schnabel, Claus; Wagner, Joachim - 2002

Using a large panel data set we investigate whether works councils act as sand or grease in the operation of German firms. Stochastic production frontier analysis indicates that establishments with and without a works council do not exhibit significant differences in efficiency.

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