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I use a question about works council relations from the 2006 wave of the IAB Establishment panel to analyze the heterogeneous effects of works councils on productivity, wages, and profits. The results indicate that the effects differ significantly between works council relationship types in a...
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. We also find that family-owned and managed workplaces have better financial and quality performance measures than non …
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The adoption of performance related pay schemes has become increasingly popular in the public sector of several … countries. In the UK, the scheme designers favoured collective performance pay with the aim to foster cooperation across offices … assess whether rewarding collective performance necessarily promotes cooperation. We show that such team structure creates …
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mitigated by pay-for-performance incentives for managers who decide upon promotion. Second, we analyze matched employer … indeed substantially higher when managers receive performance-related pay or participate in gain sharing plans. …
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Nearly all workers have a supervisor or 'boss'. Yet there is almost no published research by economists into how bosses affect the quality of employees' lives. This study offers some of the first formal evidence. First, it is shown that a boss's technical competence is the single strongest...
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In this paper we analyse the effects of arrangements that provide temporal and locational flexibility of work (TLF), namely flexi-time, telehomework, and part-time work, on employees' satisfaction with the fit between working time and private life and their overall job satisfaction. TLF...
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This paper studies the impact of diversity in cognitive ability among members of a team on their performance. We … that team performance as measured in terms of sales, profits and profits per share first increases, and then decreases …
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Much of human knowledge is produced in the world's university departments. There is little scientific evidence, however, about how those hundreds of thousands of departments are best organized and led. This study hand-collects longitudinal data on departmental chairpersons in 58 US universities...
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We explore whether the introduction of trust based working hours is related to the subsequent innovation performance of …
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To investigate the size and the timing of the direct impact of participatory arrangements on business performance, we …; (v) the performance-enhancing effects of team membership are generally greater and more long-lasting for team members who …
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