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The significance of Herzberg and Taylor for the gig economy of China : evaluating gigger incentives for Meituan and Ele.me

Mukhopadhyay, Boidurjo Rick; Chatwin, Chris - 2021

This article investigates the motivation of contingent workers in the gig economy of China, particularly focusing on the two Mobile Food Delivery Aggregators (MFDA) - Meituan and Ele.me that controls over 80% of the food delivery market in China. The convenience of one "super-app" on phone,...

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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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A study of antecedents of corporate entrepreneurship and employee engagement : a conceptual framework

Ghura, Amarpreet Singh; Goel, Abhishek - 2018

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The impact of high-performance work systems on employees: a sectoral comparison

White, Michael; Bryson, Alex - 2019

Using nationally representative linked employer-employee surveys of workplaces with 50 or more employees we find the adoption of High-Performance Work Systems (HPWS) in the private sector is largely positively correlated with employee job attitudes pre-recession. However, high intensity HPWS has...

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The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the mental health and subjective well-being of workers: an event study based on high-frequency panel data

Schmidtke, Julia; Hetschko, Clemens; Schöb, Ronnie; … - 2021

pandemic and two lockdowns on the mental health and subjective well-being of German workers. Employing an event-study design … using individual-specific fixed effects, we find that the first and the second wave of the pandemic reduced workers' mental … health substantially. Momentary happiness and life satisfaction also decline in response to Covid-19, but to a smaller extent …

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The COVID-19 pandemic, well-being, and transitions to post-secondary education

Sandner, Malte; Patzina, Alexander; Anger, Silke; … - 2021

This study examines the immediate and intermediate effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the well-being of two high … dimensions of well-being: mental health problems, self-rated health, and life satisfaction for 3,697 students. Data is collected …/21) the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. Applying difference-in-differences designs, random effect growth curve models, and …

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HRM and small-firm employee motivation : before and after the recession

Bryson, Alex; White, Michael - 2017

A long-running debate in the small firms' literature questions the value of formal 'human resource management' (HRM) practices which have been linked to high performance in larger firms. We contribute to this literature by exploiting linked employer-employee surveys for 2004 and 2011. Using...

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