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How to Limit Discrimination? Analyzing the Effects of Innovative Workplace Practices on Intra-Firm Gender Wage Gaps Using Linked Employer-Employee Data

Wolf, Elke; Heinze, Anja - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2007

This paper provides a new approach to assess the impact of organisational changes fostering employee involvement, performance related pay schemes and other relevant trends in personnel policy on the gender wage gap. Our results indicate that innovative human resource practices tend to limit the...

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Organizational change, new information and communication technologies and the demand for labor in services

Falk, Martin - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2001

Between 1993 and 1995, the majority of German firms in services introduced new organizational practices (OC), in particular total quality management systems, certified ISO 9000, lean administration, flatter hierarchies, delegation of authority and ICT-enabled organizational changes). This paper...

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Management Accounting Change and the Construction of Coherence in Organisations: a Case Study

Bourguignon, Annick; Jenkins, Alan - ESSEC Business School - 2004

This paper argues that organization change programmes are frequently backed by appeals to "coherence" – this understood as a harmonious fit between different variables (strategy, policies, management systems) conducive to better performance. In comparison recourse to psychological notions of...

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ENVIRONMENTAL STABILITY OR COMPLEXITY FOR STRUCTURE DESIGNING?

Tanoira, Francisco Gerardo Barroso - In: Panorama Administrativo Journal 2 (2007) 3, pp. 11-34

It is important for organizations that the structure corresponds to the environment. The objective is to know, from the perspective of enterprise directors, what they consider for designing organizational structure: stability or complexity. A correlation cross sectional study was developed in 23...

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Who controls the looking glass? Towards a conversational understanding of organizational theatre

Meisiek, Stefan; Barry, David - Faculdade de Economia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa - 2005

This paper presents a longitudinal study of interactive organizational theatre. Managers of a large home care organization used 30 instances of organizational theatre over a one year period to effect organizational change. We found that neither management, who had hoped that employees would...

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Human capital accumulation and the transition from specialization to multi-tasking

BOUCEKKINE, Raouf; CRIFO, Patricia - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2003

This paper provides theoretical foundations to the contemporaneous increase in computer usage, human capital and multi-tasking observed in many OECD countries during the 1990s. The links between work organization, technology and human capital is modelled by establishing the conditions under...

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Human Resource Driven Turnaround at North Delhi Power Limited: Transition from a Public Utility to a Private Enterprise

Bhatnagar, Jyotsna; Saini, Debi - In: Asian Case Research Journal (ACRJ) 11 (2007) 02, pp. 163-213

The case illustrates how a public sector utility entity with almost no human resource (HR) system in place went on the road of transformation and learning. The case documents areas of transformation from an archaic personnel architecture towards institutionalization of strategic HR system. From...

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Middle Eastern Public Management: A Cultural Approach To Developmental Administration

Kalantari, Behrooz - In: Public Organization Review 5 (2005) 2, pp. 125-138

East region, despite its rich culture and long history of administration, has demonstrated a great difficulty in … maintaining viable, efficient, and effective public institutions. It contends that administrative culture in most Middle Eastern … bureaucracies is incompatible with the culture of the masses and does not match the peoples’ expectations. Due to this inherent …

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Technological progress, organizational change and the size of the Human Resources Department

Boucekkine, Raouf; Criffo, Patricia; Mattalia, Claudio - Department of Economics, Adam Smith Business School - 2008

Innovative workplace practices based on multi-tasking and ICT that have been diffusing in most OECD countries since the 1990s have strong consequences on working conditions. Available data show together with the emergence of new organizational forms like multi-tasking, the increase in the...

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Flexible Wages Systems and the Structure of Wages: Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data

Bauer, Thomas; Bender, Stefan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

A growing theoretical and empirical literature is concerned with the effects of flexible workplace systems or High Performance Work Organizations (HPWOs) on wages. Existing theoretical literature suggests that these forms of organization should lead to higher inequality across firms, increased...

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