Most studies focus on trade effects and organizational outcomes of international standards, neglecting the effect of standards on employees. Using a two-year matched firm-employee panel dataset, this paper finds that the application of standards improves work conditions in small and medium...

Throughout the 1990s, government reports such as the Competitive Tendering and Contracting Report (Industry Commission1996) and the Report of the Independent Commission to Review Public Sector Finances (McCarrey 1993), suggested that the contracting-out of government services would improve the...

The current research investigated the indirect conditional effect of motivation and job satisfaction between work conditions-job performance relationships in the telecomm sector of Pakistan. This is a survey-based study and the questionnaire was developed using pre-established scales. The sample...