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A long-running debate in the small firms' literature questions the value of formal 'human resource management' (HRM) practices which have been linked to high performance in larger firms. We contribute to this literature by exploiting linked employer-employee surveys for 2004 and 2011. Using...
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Evidence on schools' performance is confined to comparisons across schools, usually based on value-added measures. We adopt an alternative approach comparing schools to observationally equivalent workplaces in the rest of the British economy using measures of workplace performance that are...
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this paper, however, we demonstrate that this may not hold in team settings. In the context of sequential team production …
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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...
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The performance of a work team commonly depends on the effort exerted by the team members as well as on the division of … tasks among them. However, when leaders assign tasks to team members, performance is usually not the only consideration …. Favouritism, employees' seniority, employees' preferences over tasks, and fairness considerations often play a role as well. Team …
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The importance of fair and equal treatment of workers is at the heart of the debate in organizational management. In this regard, we study how reward mechanisms and production technologies affect effort provision in teams. Our experimental results demonstrate that unequal rewards can potentially...
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We investigate a team setting in which workers have different degrees of commitment to the outcome of their work. We … show that if there are complementarities in production and if the team manager has some information about team members … identifies that team governance is driven by the importance of tasks that cannot be monitored. The more important these tasks …
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performance of his peers, but decreases with the quality of the team's pitching. Furthermore, a pitcher's performance increases … with the pitching quality of his teammates, but is unaffected by the batting output of the team. These results are …
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, 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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team work if their co-workers do the same. We show that there is no pooling in equilibrium, and that workers self …-select into firms that differ in their incentives as well as their resulting level of team work. Our model can explain why firms …
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