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Purpose This paper aims to undertake a simultaneous assessment of interdependence in the behaviours of front-line and back-office employees and their joint effect on customer-related organisational performance. It also tests for a moderating influence of the emotional intelligence of front-line...
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Abstract This paper studies the effect of mandated severance pay in a matching model featuring wage rigidity for ongoing, but not new, matches. Mandated severance pay matters only if binding real wage rigidities imply inefficient separation under employment at will. In such a case, large enough...
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Abstract This paper presents a two-country non-scale Schumpeterian endogenous growth model with interindustry North-South trade and wage rigidity in the North. Its purpose is to analyze the effects of a compression of the wage structure and an increase in unemployment benefits on Northern...
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Zusammenfassung Die Studie analysiert die Ursachen von Lohnrigidititäten, darunter Tarifverträge, Effizienzlöhne, implizite Kontrakte und Insider-Outsider-Verhalten, auf der Basis einer schriftlichen Befragung von 801 Unternehmen und stellt einen Vergleich mit US-amerikanischen Ergebnissen...
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Purpose – The purpose of the paper was to establish the implications of globalisation for labour markets when efficiency wages create endogenous wage rigidity and to re‐examine the credibility of the arguments that call for deregulation, more wage flexibility and less social protection in...
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This article explores the domain of psychological contract with respect to employees of IT industry in India and identifies the factors that determine positive psychological contract amongst the employer and employees. Longitudinal data was collected from 245 employees of top Indian IT companies...
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exchange attributes like trust, commitment, reciprocity and power are paramount in developing supply chain capabilities. The … current investigation adopts a social exchange perspective and investigates the importance of trust, commitment, reciprocity …
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Organisations invest heavily in knowledge management technologies and initiatives which are entirely dependent on the willingness of employees to share their knowledge. Educational and reward programs need to be informed by an understanding of what motivates people to share their knowledge at...
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Abstract This paper explores the implications of fairness and reciprocity for self-enforcing international … environmental agreements on pollution abatement. Reciprocal countries reward fair behavior (positive reciprocity), but retaliate … against countries behaving unfairly (negative reciprocity). We demonstrate that reciprocal countries that have moderate …
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, reciprocity in organ allocation, better payments for hospitals and for donors are proposed as potential remedies.  …
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