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Intrinsic motivations and the non-profit health sector: evidence from Ethiopia
Serra, Danila; Serneels, Pieter; Barr, Abigail - 2010
Economists have traditionally assumed that individual behavior is motivated exclusively by extrinsic incentives. Social psychologists, in contrast, stress that intrinsic motivations are also important. In recent work, economic theorists have started to build psychological factors, like intrinsic...
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HRM and Small-Firm Employee Motivation: Before and after the Recession
Bryson, Alex; White, Michael - 2017
measures of motivation we find the returns to small firm investments in HRM are u-shaped. Small firms benefit from … are initially introduced, but can restore positive motivation when they invest intensively in HRM practices in a way that … employee motivation is modified somewhat by the recessionary transition, it remains rather robust and continues to have …
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Is Pupil Attainment Higher in Well-Managed Schools?
Bryson, Alex; Stokes, Lucy; Wilkinson, David - 2018
Linking the Workplace Employment Relations Surveys 2004 and 2011 to administrative data on pupil attainment in England we examine whether secondary and primary schools who deploy more intensive human resource management (HRM) practices have higher pupil attainment. We find intensive use of HRM...
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Are Schools Different? Wellbeing and Commitment among Staff in Schools and Elsewhere
Bryson, Alex; Stokes, Lucy; Wilkinson, David - 2018
Using nationally representative linked employer-employee data for Britain in 2004 and 2011 we find school staff are more satisfied and more contented with their jobs than "like" employees in other workplaces. The differentials are largely accounted for by the occupations school employees...
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Steering towards the high road: a study of human resource management in two Indian garment factories
Lake, Henrietta - 2007
What are the performance benefits of investing in human resources in a low-cost labor environment where returns to such investment are widely perceived as negligible? This paper presents a matched pair case study on the performance effect of human resource management systems at two garment...
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Adverse workplace conditions, high-involvement work practices and labor turnover: evidence from Danish linked employer-employee data
Cottini, Elena; Kato, Takao; Westergård-Nielsen, Niels … - 2009
This paper contributes to the emerging strand of the empirical literature that takes advantage of new data on workplace-specific job attributes and voluntary employee turnover to shed fresh insights on the relationship between employee turnover, adverse workplace conditions and HRM environments....
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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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Management Practices, Worker Commitment, and Workplace Representation
Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino - 2020
Using multilevel mixed effects ordered logistic models, this paper conducts an original investigation of the new management as a technology approach for all EU nations in a framework that explicitly recognizes worker representation while incorporating the notion of affective commitment. It is...
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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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Can HRM Improve Schools' Performance?
Bryson, Alex; Stokes, Lucy; Wilkinson, David - 2018
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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