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adoption of High-Performance Work Systems (HPWS) in the private sector is largely positively correlated with employee job …
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We explore the relationship between employee trust of managers and workplace performance. We present a theoretical … framework which serves to establish a link between employee trust and firm performance as well as to identify possible … whether the average level of employee trust within the workplace influences workplace performance. We exploit the 2004 and …
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assigned within teams and how this affects team performance. Subjects play the takeover game in pairs consisting of a buyer and … endogenous role assignment and chat unexpectedly worsens team performance. We argue that ego depletion provides a likely …
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We study employee absence in Danish organizations. In contrast to Steers and Rhodes (1978), who stress the importance of individual and organizational characteristics in shaping employees' motivation to attend work, we show that absence is predominantly an individualized phenomenon. Because the...
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Evidence on schools' performance is confined to comparisons across schools, usually based on value-added measures. We … using measures of workplace performance that are common across all workplaces. We focus on the role played by management … practices in explaining differences in the performance of schools versus other workplaces, and performance across the schools …
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This empirical paper documents the relationship between composition of a firm's workforce (with a special focus on age … and gender) and its performance (productivity and profitability) for a large representative sample of enterprises from …
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. We also find that family-owned and managed workplaces have better financial and quality performance measures than non …
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, firms' performance. We focus on counseling and monitoring which may reduce search costs for employers, but which may have … ambiguous effect on the employer-employee matching quality and thus on firms' performance. Using a large scale experiment which …
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This paper investigates the relationship between gender of the CEO and composition of the board of directors (female chairman and share of women in the boardroom) and firm's risk attitudes measured as variability in four firm outcome variables (investments, profits, return to equity, and sales)....
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This paper explores theoretically and empirically potentially important yet often-neglected linkage between task coordination within the organization and the structure of organization and bundling of HRMPs (Human Resource Management Practices). In so doing, we also provide fresh insights on the...
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