In this chapter we examine the relationship between Human Resource Management (HRM) and productivity. HRM includes … firing) and work organization (e.g. teams, autonomy). We place HRM more generally within the literature on management …

"In this handbook of labor economics chapter we examine the relationship between Human Resource Management (HRM) and … literature on management practices and productivity. We start with some facts on levels and trends of both HRM and productivity …

In this handbook of labor economics chapter we examine the relationship between Human Resource Management (HRM) and … literature on management practices and productivity. We start with some facts on levels and trends of both HRM and productivity …

In this handbook of labor economics chapter we examine the relationship between Human Resource Management (HRM) and … literature on management practices and productivity. We start with some facts on levels and trends of both HRM and productivity …

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 …

Partnering with the Census we implement a new survey of "structured" management practices in 32,000 US manufacturing … plants. We find an enormous dispersion of management practices across plants, with 40% of this variation across plants within … the same firm. This management variation accounts for about a fifth of the spread of productivity, a similar fraction as …