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Mutual Gains? Is There a Role for Employee Engagement in the Modern Workplace?

Bryson, Alex - 2017

working, involvement in decision-making at workplace or firm level, and financial participation – and present empirical … employee engagement are independently associated with improvements in workplace performance. I consider the implications of the …

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Job Satisfaction and Public Service Motivation

Kaiser, Lutz - 2014

Based on a unique case study-dataset, the paper analyses job satisfaction and public service motivation in Germany. A special issue of the investigation is related to the evaluation of performance pay scales that were introduced some years ago to German public employees within the frame of...

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Job Satisfaction and Co-Worker Wages : Status or Signal?

Clark, Andrew - 2007

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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Reference Dependent Preferences and the Impact of Wage Increases on Job Satisfaction : Theory and Evidence

Grund, Christian - 2005

The impact of wage increases on job satisfaction is explored theoretically and empirically. To do this, we apply a utility function that rises with the absolute wage level as well as with wage increases. It is shown that when employees can influence their wages by exerting effort, myopic utility...

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Effort at Work and Worker Well-Being in the Us

Giménez-Nadal, José Ignacio; Molina, Jose Alberto; … - 2022

This paper analyses detailed 24-hour diary data from the United States to provide evidence on the relationship between workers' effort and well-being while at work. In doing so, we first measure workers' effort in terms of its timing, its nature, and its composition. Second, we link these three...

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Competition, Cooperation, and Corporate Culture

Kosfeld, Michael; von Siemens, Ferdinand - 2021

Teamwork and cooperation between workers can be of substantial value to a firm, yet the level of worker cooperation often varies between individual firms. We show that these differences can be the result of labor market competition if workers have heterogeneous preferences and preferences are...

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I Can't Get No Satisfaction : The Power of Perceived Differences in Employee Retention and Turnover

Gevrek, Deniz - 2017

This study explores the role of salary raises and the perception of employees of these salary raises on employees' intended retention and turnover. By using a unique survey data set from an American university, this study investigates a novel hypothesis that faculty perceptions of salary raises,...

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Helping and Antisocial Behavior in the Workplace

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

behavior as an integral part of a firm's workplace culture and working climate. Using representative employer-employee panel …, and personality traits explain these firm-level differences in helping and antisocial behavior in the workplace. Our … composition for the manifestation of helpful and hostile workplace cultures …

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Occupations after WWII : The Legacy of Rosie the Riveter

Bellou, Andriana - 2013

WWII induced a dramatic increase in female labor supply, which persisted over time, particularly for women with higher education. Using Census micro data we study the qualitative aspects of this long term increase through the lenses of the occupations women held after the war. Almost two decades...

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Workplace Disability Diversity and Job-Related Well-Being in Britain : A WERS2004 Based Analysis

Haile, Getinet A. - 2009

This paper attempts to establish empirically whether there is a link between workplace disability and employee job … techniques to account for unobserved workplace heterogeneity. I find that workplace disability diversity is associated with lower … employee well-being among people with no reported disability. Tests conducted also indicate that workplace equality policies do …

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