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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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The impact of high-performance work systems on employees: a sectoral comparison
White, Michael; Bryson, Alex - 2019
Using nationally representative linked employer-employee surveys of workplaces with 50 or more employees we find the adoption of High-Performance Work Systems (HPWS) in the private sector is largely positively correlated with employee job attitudes pre-recession. However, high intensity HPWS has...
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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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HRM and small-firm employee motivation : before and after the Great Recession
Bryson, Alex; White, Michael - In: ILR review : a publication of the New York State School … 72 (2019) 3, pp. 749-773
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Positive employee attitudes : how much human resource management do you need?
White, Michael; Bryson, Alex - In: Human relations 66 (2013) 3, pp. 385-406
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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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How much performance pay is there in the public sector and what are its effects?
Bryson, Alex; Forth, John; Stokes, Lucy - In: Human resource management journal 27 (2017) 4, pp. 581-597
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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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Does high involvement management improve worker wellbeing?
Böckerman, Petri; Bryson, Alex; Ilmakunnas, Pekka - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 84 (2012) 2, pp. 660-680
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Creative disruption : technology innovation, labour demand and the pandemic
Barth, Erling; Bryson, Alex; Dale-Olsen, Harald - 2022
-wide register data, to show that the pandemic massively disrupted the technology investment plans of firms, not only postponing … investments. Most innovations were permanent, not due to acceleration of existing plans, thus the pandemic yields longterm … influence in directions unanticipated before the pandemic. The new technologies are associated with increased labour demand for …
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