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

Bryson, Alex - 2017

I examine the history of employee engagement and how it has been characterised by thinkers in sociology, psychology, management and economics. I suggest that, while employers may choose to invest in employee engagement, there are alternative management strategies that may be profit-maximising. I...

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Does high involvement management lead to higher pay?

Böckerman, Petri; Bryson, Alex; Ilmakunnas, Pekka - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

Using nationally representative survey data for Finnish employees linked to register data on their wages and work histories we find wage effects of high involvement management (HIM) practices are generally positive and significant. However, employees with better wage and work histories are more...

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National Innovation System in the Era of Liberalization: Implications for Science and Technology Policy for Developing Economies

Singh, Lakhwinder; Singh, Baldev - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

of the developing and newly industrializing economies shows that national systems of innovation have evolved keeping in … two essential characteristics of national innovation system that connects the users and producers of knowledge and also … rights on the other. How these arrangements have affected the national system of innovation both in the developed and …

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Unorganised Manufacturing Industry in the Era of Globalization: A Study of Punjab

Singh, Lakhwinder; Jain, Varinder - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

The recent developments in the theory of industrial organisation have underlined the importance of small scale industry. Small industry can be equally competitive in the fast changing global economy provided it exploits economies of scale and scope while locating itself in clusters along with...

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Leadership and the Research Productivity of University Departments

Goodall, Amanda H.; McDowell, John M.; Singell, Larry D. - 2014

Much of human knowledge is produced in the world's university departments. There is little scientific evidence, however, about how those hundreds of thousands of departments are best organized and led. This study hand-collects longitudinal data on departmental chairpersons in 58 US universities...

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Does Job Support Make Workers Happy?

Böckerman, Petri; Bryson, Alex; Kauhanen, Antti; … - 2017

Using linked employer-employee data for Finland we examine associations between job design and ten measures of worker wellbeing. In accordance with Karasek's (1979) model we find positive correlations between many aspects of worker wellbeing and job control. However, contrary to the model, job...

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HRM and Small-Firm Employee Motivation: Before and after the Recession

Bryson, Alex; White, Michael - 2017

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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HPWS in the Public Sector: Are There Mutual Gains?

White, Michael; Bryson, Alex - 2018

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 workplaces in Britain in 2004 and 2011. We find robust...

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How Common Are Bad Bosses?

Artz, Benjamin; Goodall, Amanda H.; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2018

Bosses play an important role in workplaces. Yet little is currently known about a foundational question. Are the right people promoted to be managers, team leaders, and supervisors? Gallup data and the famous Peter Principle both suggest that incompetent bosses are likely to be all around us....

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When Does HRM 'Work' in Small British Enterprises?

White, Michael; Bryson, Alex - 2016

Using nationally representative workplace data we find substantial use of high-performance work systems (HPWS) in Britain's small enterprises. We find empirical support for the proposition that HPWS have a non-linear association with employees' overall job attitude, with a positive association...

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