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Corporate social responsibility, customer orientation, and the job performance of frontline employees
Korschun, Daniel; Bhattacharya, C. B.; Swain, Scott D. - 2013
A study involving a Global 500 company finds that frontline employees' perceptions of corporate social responsibility (CSR) can contribute to their customer orientation (self-rated) and objective job performance (supervisor-rated) by activating social identification processes. Employees identify...
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Trust in public institutions over the business cycle
Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - 2011
the most suffered the biggest loss in confidence in institutions, particularly in trust in government and the financial … sector. Finally, analysis of several repeated cross-sections of confidence within U.S. states yields similar qualitative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274853
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Trust in public institutions over the business cycle
Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - 2011
the most suffered the biggest loss in confidence in institutions, particularly in trust in government and the financial … sector. Finally, analysis of several repeated cross-sections of confidence within U.S. states yields similar qualitative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278438
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Fading hope in the US
Ritzen, Jo; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2012
A substantial literature claims that the strong increase in inequality over the last decade in countries such as the US would lead to a collapse of society. Fading hopes in the population seem to confirm this. The paper rejects this interpretation since the decline in hopes cannot be traced back...
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Power, rent extraction, and executive compensation
Bebchuk, Lucian; Fried, Jesse - In: CESifo Forum 03 (2002) 3, pp. 23-28
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Unions and the Labor Market for Managers
Pischke, Jörn-Steffen; Hallock, Kevin F.; DiNardo, John - 2000
We examine the relationship between the employment and compensation of managers and CEOs and the presence of a … monitoring, which requires more managers. The model also assumes rent sharing between workers, managers and the owners of the … firm. Unions, by redistributing rents towards the workers, lead to lower employment and lower pay for managers. Using a …
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The influence of teleworking on performance and employees' counterproductive behaviour
Nemțeanu, Marcela-Sefora; Dabija, Dan Cristian; … - In: Amfiteatru Economic Journal 23 (2021) 58, pp. 601-619
The new social context brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic has generated significant changes in the work of employees. Social distancing and isolation have imposed the adoption of teleworking in most cases. Teleworking existed before the COVID-19 pandemic, and was considered a facilitator of...
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Sick Pay Provision in Experimental Labor Markets
Dürsch, Peter; Oechssler, Jörg; Vadovic, Radovan - 2008
explore two related questions using both managers and undergraduates as subjects. First, do workers reciprocate sick pay in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011422180
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Team Diversity und Teamleistung im Kontext von geteilter sozialer Identität: Ein Erklärungsansatz über Kurvilinearitäten
Kirch, Johannes; Tomenendal, Matthias - 2015
Die Forschung zur Auswirkung von funktionaler Team Diversity auf Teamleistung hat bisher gemischte Ergebnisse gebracht. Im Kontext der sozialen Identität eines Teams werden im vorliegenden Beitrag zunächst Hypothesen über die Beziehungen zwischen funktionaler Vielfalt, Teamvertrauen,...
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Overconfidence Can Improve an Agent's Relative and Absolute Performance in Contests
Ludwig, Sandra; Wichardt, Philipp C.; Wickhorst, Hanke - 2010
This paper suggests a potential rationale for the recent empirical finding that overconfident agents tend to self-select into more competitive environments (e.g. Dohmen and Falk, forthcoming). In particular, it shows that moderate overconfidence in a contest can improve the agent's performance...
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