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Are employees better off in socially responsible firms?
Tamm, Katrin; Eamets, Raul; Mõtsmees, Pille - 2010
The growing awareness of the issue of corporate social responsibility (CSR) has raised the questions about how responsible behavior of firms would impact employees' well-being. This paper investigates the link between corporate social responsibility and job satisfaction, which is a more widely...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278597
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Are Employees Better Off in Socially Responsible Firms?
Tamm, Katrin; Eamets, Raul; Mõtsmees, Pille - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
The growing awareness of the issue of corporate social responsibility (CSR) has raised the questions about how responsible behavior of firms would impact employees’ well-being. This paper investigates the link between corporate social responsibility and job satisfaction, which is a more widely...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008805613
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011984525
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011786962
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Trust of second generation immigrants: Intergenerational transmission or cultural assimilation?
Moschion, Julie; Tabasso, Domenico - 2013
trust. Focusing on second generation immigrants in Australia and the United States, we exploit the variation in the home and … individual trust. Our results indicate that trust in the home country contributes to the trust of second generation immigrants in … crime rate, economic inequality, race inequality and segregation by country of origin, also affect trust. Evidence for first …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293233
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Building Trust in Rural Producer Organizations in Senegal: Results from a Randomized Controlled Trial
Bernard, Tanguy; Frölich, Markus; Landmann, Andreas; … - 2015
Trust is crucial for successful collective action. A prime example is collective commercialization of agricultural …-day training on collective commercialization. We use this variation to identify effects on intra-group trust, both direct treatment … measures of trust in leaders' competence and motives and of trust in members we find that participating in the training …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307405
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The Economic Costs of Mass Surveillance: Insights from Stasi Spying in East Germany
Lichter, Andreas; Loeffler, Max; Siegloch, Sebastian - 2015
social capital as measured by interpersonal and institutional trust in post-reunification Germany. We estimate the economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307452
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Conditional Cooperation and Betrayal Aversion
Cubitt, Robin; Gächter, Simon; Quercia, Simone - 2015
We investigate whether there is a link between conditional cooperation and betrayal aversion. We use a public goods game to classify subjects by type of contribution preference and by belief about the contributions of others; and we measure betrayal aversion for different categories of subject....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307454
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Third-Party vs. Second-Party Control: Disentangling the Role of Autonomy and Reciprocity
Burdín, Gabriel; Halliday, Simon; Landini, Fabio - 2015
This paper studies the role of autonomy and reciprocity in explaining control averse responses in principal-agents interactions. While most of the social psychology literature emphasizes the role of autonomy, recent economic research has provided an alternative explanation based on reciprocity....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307467
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Ethnic Diversity and Trust: New Evidence from Australian Data
Mendolia, Silvia; Tosh, Alex; Yerokhin, Oleg - 2015
an individual's local and general trust. A wide literature across economics and sociology has recognised the importance … of trust in facilitating economic growth and development and it is therefore important to investigate elements of social … organisation that encourage or inhibit the development of trust. We use fixed effects and instrumental variable regression and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011420720