Using nationally representative surveys of workplaces with 50 or more employees we find the adoption of High-Performance Work Systems (HPWS) in the public sector are positively correlated with workplace financial performance and the implementation of workplace organizational change. The...

Contemporary challenges require public sector institutions to adapt the changing environment and to ensure an appropriate internal management processes, including the leadership. Leaders are expected to inspire and create a vision, and advocate for that vision throughout the periods of growth,...

Change is accepted as a process determined among an organisation's senior management; therefore, employees would predominately resist the change process, making it necessary for change strategists to address the resistance prior to implementing the change programme. Since a strategic challenge...

Der Veränderungs- und Anpassungsdruck auf Betriebe und ihre Beschäftigte ist vor dem Hintergrund der Megatrends wie dem digitalen und ökologischen Wandel enorm. Die erfolgreiche Bewältigung des Wandels hängt maßgeblich davon ab, wie es in Betrieben gelingt, Beschäftigte für die...

In this paper we study job design. Will an organization plan precisely how the job is to be done ex ante, or ask workers to determine the process as they go? We first model this decision and predict complementarity between these job attributes: multitasking, discretion, skills, and...