We explore the relationship between employee trust of managers and workplace performance. We present a theoretical framework which serves to establish a link between employee trust and firm performance as well as to identify possible mechanisms through which the relationship may operate. We then...

This paper uses a novel firm level data set to investigate the impact of a unique quality management practice on the production and productivity of a large-scale garments manufacturer in Pakistan. The analysis provides evidence that production complexity is an important element in determining...

Using a novel firm level data set from one garment manufacturer in Pakistan we investigate the impact of a new quality management monitoring practice on productivity and daily defects. We provide evidence that the new quality practice had a negative impact on productivity lines at the extreme...

Using a novel firm level data set from a garment manufacturer in Pakistan we investigate the effect of a new quality management monitoring practice on firm performance and daily defects. We provide evidence that the intervention generally had a negative impact on firm performance for those lines...

In this paper, we explore whether an intergenerational relationship exists between the reading and mathematics test scores, taken at age 7, of a cohort of individuals born in 1958 and the equivalent test scores of their offspring measured in 1991. Our results suggest that how the parent performs...