Zusammenfassung Organisationen stehen vor der Herausforderung, ihre Beschäftigten auf die digitale Transformation vorzubereiten. Das Lernen bei der Arbeit (arbeitsintegriertes Lernen) kann dabei eine Schlüsselstrategie sein. In diesem Beitrag werden sachbearbeitende Tätigkeiten als...

Zusammenfassung Das Verbessern der eigenen Arbeitsprozesse durch die Arbeitsplatzinhaber/innen ist Problemlösen, das in der Regel Kooperation erfordert, weil Erwerbsarbeit ein sozialer Prozess ist. Das kooperative Identifizieren und Implementieren von Verbesserungsbedarf kann organisiert werden...

In recent decades, many firms offered more discretion to their employees, often increasing the productivity of effort but also leaving more opportunities for shirking. These high-performance work systems are difficult to understand in terms of standard moral hazard models. We show experimentally...

This paper integrates two strands of literature on overskilling and disability using the 2004 British Workplace Employment Relations Survey (WERS). It finds that the disabled are significantly more likely to be mismatched in the labour market, to suffer from a pay penalty and to have lower job...

Using a unique new cross-national survey of Japanese and Korean workers, we report the first systematic evidence on the effects on employee voice of High Performance Work Practices (HPWPs) from the two economies which are noted for the wide use of HPWPs. We find for both nations that: (i)...

We address the question how much authority a principal should delegate to a manager with conflicting interests and uncertain ability in a context in which the manager has both compensation-based and reputational incentives. The optimal level of authority balances the value of the manager's...

The paper examines the effect of innovative work practices on the prevalence of sickness absence and accidents at work. We focus on several different aspects of workplace innovations (self-managed teams, information sharing, employer-provided training and incentive pay) along with the 'bundles'...

The paper empirically expounds the richness of the identity approach to labor market behavior by allowing individuals to experience identity conflict. Specifically, it investigates the relationship between the importance individuals attach to labor-market activities - which is influenced by the...

Using individual data from the European Survey on Working Conditions (ESWC) covering all EU member states, this study aimed at contributing to our understanding of the effects of High Performance Workplace Organizations (HPWOs) on worker's job satisfaction. The estimation results show that a...