In this working paper is presented information on the Portuguese labour market developed with the support of the European project WORKS-“Work organisation and restructuring in the knowledge society”. Is still a on the process article and thus commentaries are welcome. The structure is based...

The Opificio delle Pietre Dure in Florence (Masonry Workshop) is of ancient lineage, dating back to the Botteghe Granducali set up in 1588 by the Medici Grand Duke Ferdinand I. In the 1880's, after the Unification of Italy, it was turned into a restoration workshop (a discipline, at that time,...

In this article, the authors sought to study the efficiency of the staff costs and its reflection upon the main economic and financial indicators of a company. In the performed study, the application of the factor analysis models was made at the level of an industrial trading company the social...

In this Paper we examine the possibilities a principal in a public organization has to motivate agents for productivity improvements where standard stick and carrot incentives cannot be used. The principal’s only incentive device is a reallocation of budgets and tasks across agents depending...

This paper studies management when the principal has different degrees of commitment power. In a model in which both the principal and agents are symmetrically uncertain about the agents' innate abilities, implicit incentives arise when the principal is not able to commit herself to long-term...

If managers and their subordinates had the same basic qualifications, organizations could benefit from replacing unproductive superiors with more productive subordinates. This threat of being replaced, however, could give rise to strategic recruiting: Unproductive superiors might deliberately...

Previous research on high-performance work systems (HPWSs) has primarily analyzed the effects of HPWSs on organizational performance from a management perspective. The current study distinguishes between management and employee perspectives of HPWS and examines how the two perspectives relate to...

In this Paper we use data from industrial plants to investigate if seniority-based pay is used as a motivational device for production workers. Alternatively, seniority-based pay could simply be a wage-setting rule not necessarily related to the provision of incentives. Unlike previous papers,...

La "mobilisation" des employes est une expression qui est tres utilisee dans les ecrits en management, mais qui n'a pas encore ete clairement definie. L'objet de cet article est de proposer une definition de la mobilisation en se basant sur l'opinion de 91 professionnels en ressources humaines...

We investigate whether competition between two firms to hire managers with different abilities might affect the product markets efficiency, when a manager's effort once hired is or her private information. We conclude that competition for managers might lead to an efficiency improvement in the...