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Works councils and employer attitudes toward the incentive effects of HRM practices
Jirjahn, Uwe - 2016
A growing number of econometric examinations show that works councils substantially shape the personnel policy of firms in Germany. Firms with works councils make greater use of various HRM practices. This gives rise to the question of whether employers view the shaping of personnel policy...
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Employee wellbeing, productivity and firm performance
Krekel, Christian; Ward, George; De Neve, Jan-Emmanuel - 2019
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Mutual gains? : is there a role for employee engagement in the modern workplace?
Bryson, Alex - 2017
I examine the history of employee engagement and how it has been characterised by thinkers in sociology, psychology, management and economics. I suggest that, while employers may choose to invest in employee engagement, there are alternative management strategies that may be profit-maximising. I...
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Job satisfaction and public service motivation
Kaiser, Lutz C. - 2014
Based on a unique case study-dataset, the paper analyses job satisfaction and public service motivation in Germany. A …
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Human capital utilisation, quiet quitting and employee retention
Russo, Giovanni - 2024
When employees leave an organisation, they take their human capital with them. They also take with them any investment that the training organisation may have done to enhance their human capital, both in terms of firm-specific and general skills. Employee turnover is the main cause of the...
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Nudging the nudger : a field experiment on the effect of performance feedback to service agents on increasing organ donor registrations
House, Julian; Lacetera, Nicola; Macis, Mario; Mažar, Nina - 2022
We conducted a randomized controlled trial involving nearly 700 customer-service representatives (CSRs) in a Canadian government service agency to study whether providing CSRs with performance feedback with or without peer comparison affected their subsequent organ donor registration rates....
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Exploring digital time measurement in the public sector : labor productivity and service quality in home care
Jordahl, Henrik; Persson, Lovisa - 2018
We measure labor productivity in home care using new data from the recent introduction of digital time measurement in Swedish municipalities. By measuring worker utilization (delivered hours as a share of worked hours) we avoid several problems that have plagued previous studies of public sector...
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Divergence of human capital in cities in the People's Republic of China : exploring complementarities and spatial agglomeration of the workforce with various skills
Liang, Wenquan; Lu, Ming - 2016
In cities, complementarity between a low-skilled and a high-skilled workforce can promote each other to improve labor … workforce in cities in the People's Republic of China (PRC) along with its changes, and drew the following three conclusions …. First, a highly skilled workforce is the engine of urban development, increasing urban wages and population. Second, big …
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Employee trust and workplace performance
Brown, Sarah; McHardy, Jolian P.; Taylor, Karl - 2013
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Employee trust and workplace performance
Brown, Sarah; Gray, Daniel; McHardy, Jolian P.; Taylor, Karl - 2014
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...
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