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Bloom, Nicholas; Lemos, Renata; Sadun, Raffaella; Van … - 2014

We collect data on operations, targets and human resources management practices in over 1,800 schools educating 15-year …-olds in eight countries. Overall, we show that higher management quality is strongly associated with better educational … outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada and the US obtain the highest management scores closely followed by Germany, with a gap to …

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Personnel department power: realities from the UK higher education sector

Farndale, Elaine; Hope-Hailey, Veronica - In: Management revue : socio-economic studies 20 (2009) 4, pp. 392-412

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Watch your workers win : changing job demands and HRM responses

Haywood, Luke - In: Management revue : socio-economic studies 22 (2011) 1, pp. 47-64

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Innovating the HR function in a commercialising British public sector organisation : towards a more strategic role for HR?

Andreescu, Francesca - In: Management revue : socio-economic studies 15 (2004) 3, pp. 344-363

Although the body of research and practice on HR management in private sector organisations has grown at an astonishing …

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Watch your workers win : changing job demands and HRM responses

Haywood, Luke - In: Management revue : socio-economic studies 22 (2011) 1, pp. 47-64

This paper considers how the demand for non-material aspects of jobs evolves over changing wealth levels and how firms may want to react. We first consider the importance of non-material job aspects in general before turning to two specific human resource practices: flexible working hour...

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Employee share schemes in Europe : the influence of US multinationals

Poutsma, Erik; Ligthart, Paul E.; Schouteten, Roel - In: Management revue : socio-economic studies 16 (2005) 1, pp. 99-122

The debate on convergence and globalisation of national economies emphasises the role of Multinational Corporations (MNCs) with regard to the export of homecountry policies in countries where they have their plants. MNCs set a process of change in motion in which local companies attempt to catch...

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Personnel departmental power : realities from the UK higher education sector

Farndale, Elaine; Hope-Hailey, Veronica - In: Management revue : socio-economic studies 20 (2009) 4, pp. 392-412

The status of the Personnel function is subject to an ongoing debate in which attention has largely shifted from department to individual practitioner level. There remains, however, significant functional power in organisational structures, particularly in more institutionalised contexts. Aimed...

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Innovating the HR function in a commercialising British public sector organisation : towards a more strategic role HR?

Andreescu, Francesca - In: Management revue : socio-economic studies 15 (2004) 3, pp. 344-363

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Incentives for managers and inequality among workers: evidence from a firm level experiment

Bandiera, Oriana; Barankay, Iwan; Rasul, Imran - 2006

We present evidence from a firm level experiment in which we engineered an exogenous change in managerial compensation from fixed wages to performance pay based on the average productivity of lower-tier workers. Theory suggests that managerial incentives affect both the mean and dispersion of...

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Management economics in a large retail organization

Siebert, William Stanley; Zubanov, Nikolay - 2008

We study the impact of and reward to middle management ability using data from 245 stores of a nationwide retailer. The … company scores six broad areas of management practice, the most important of which turns out to be commercial awareness, where … managers do not receive higher pay all else equal, which implies that middle management ability is not fully tradable. …

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