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measures of motivation we find the returns to small firm investments in HRM are u-shaped. Small firms benefit from … are initially introduced, but can restore positive motivation when they invest intensively in HRM practices in a way that …A long-running debate in the small firms' literature questions the value of formal 'human resource management' (HRM …
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adoption of High-Performance Work Systems (HPWS) in the private sector is largely positively correlated with employee job … different employment relationships and different sources of employee motivation. …
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Few studies investigate the links between high-performance work systems (HPWS) on public sector organizational … performance and worker job attitudes. We fill this gap with analyses of these links using linked employer-employee surveys of … organizational performance in the public sector but no associations with worker attitudes. The implication is that, in contrast to …
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between human resource management (HRM) intensity and various employee job attitudes. I also find the intensity of HRM use and … employee engagement are independently associated with improvements in workplace performance. I consider the implications of the …
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Working remotely can complement and sometimes completely substitute conventional work at the workplace of the company. Until the COVID-19 crisis the share of remote workers was relatively low and empirical investigations show inconsistent results. The recent work has highlighted a dramatic shift...
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conditioned on job quality, human resource management practices (HRM), managerial style and other features of employees' working … commitment are linked to improvements in workplace performance in schools, but not in other workplaces. …
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hypothesis that financial and productivity performance is superior in establishments without worker representation is not … favorable regime for financial performance, although this does not carry over to the labor productivity outcome. On net, however …, the evidence suggests that the selected management practices are likely to be favorable to performance in plants with and …
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This paper examines the role of work-life balance practices (WLB) in explaining the paradox of the contented female worker". After establishing that females report higher levels of job satisfaction than men in the UK, we test whether firm characteristics such as WLB and gender segregation boost...
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Using nationally representative workplace data we find substantial use of high-performance work systems (HPWS) in …
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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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