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The Impact of Teams on Output, Quality and Downtime : An Empirical Analysis Using Individual Panel Data

Jones, Derek C.; Kato, Takao - 2021

, typically at 10 to 16% per 100 days in a team; (iv) while initially teams lead to more downtime, these costs diminish over time …; (v) the performance-enhancing effects of team membership are generally greater and more long-lasting for team members who … are solicited by management; and (vi) similar relationships exist for more educated team members. These findings square …

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The Productivity Effects of Profit Sharing, Employee Ownership, Stock Option and Team Incentive Plans : Evidence from Korean Panel Data

Kato, Takao - 2010

(SOPs) and Team Incentive Plans (TIPs). In do doing, we assemble important new panel data by merging data from a survey of …

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Competition, Group Identity, and Social Networks in the Workplace : Evidence from a Chinese Textile Firm

Kato, Takao - 2013

Using data on team assignment and weekly output for all weavers in an urban Chinese textile firm between April 2003 and …

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Performance Pay and Enterprise Productivity : The Details Matter

Kato, Takao - 2018

Much of the empirical literature on PRP (Performance Related Pay) focuses on a question of whether the firm can increase firm performance in general and enterprise productivity in particular by introducing PRP and if so, how much. However, not all PRP programs are created equal and PRP programs...

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Discrete Innovation, Continuous Improvement, and Competitive Pressure

Ghosh, Arghya; Kato, Takao; Morita, Hodaka - 2021

Does competitive pressure foster innovation? In addressing this important question, prior studies ignored a distinction between discrete innovation aiming at entirely new technology and continuous improvement consisting of numerous incremental improvements and modifications made upon the...

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The Impact of Teams on Output, Quality and Downtime:An Empirical Analysis Using Individual Panel Data

Jones, Derek C.; Kato, Takao - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

To investigate the size and the timing of the direct impact of participatory arrangements onbusiness performance, we assemble and analyze extraordinary daily data for rejection,production and downtime rates for all operators in a single plant during a 35 month period,more than 77,000...

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High Performance Work Practices and Employee Voice : A Comparison of Japanese and Korean Workers

Bae, Kiu-Sik - 2010

Using a unique new cross-national survey of Japanese and Korean workers, we report the first systematic evidence on the effects on employee voice of High Performance Work Practices (HPWPs) from the two economies which are noted for the wide use of HPWPs. We find for both nations that: (i)...

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