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Trading places: employers, unions and the manufacture of voice
Bryson, Alex; Gomez, Rafael; Willman, Paul - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008
– especially union-only voice – has been associated with poorer climate, more industrial action, poorer financial performance and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011071128
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Union organization in Great Britain
Willman, Paul; Bryson, Alex - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007
Union membership and density in Britain has experienced substantial decline since 1979. The fall in private sector membership and density has been much greater than in the public sector. The size of the union sector, measured by employer recognition, has shrunk. Membership decline has been...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745666
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Why do voice regimes differ?
Willman, Paul; Bryson, Alex; Gomez, Rafael - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003
In this paper we seek to explain the emergence of different voice regimes, and to do so by using approaches from institutional economics. In particular we analyse the emergence of different voice regimes as a contracting problem; a ¿make¿ or ¿buy¿ decision on the part of the employer. A...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011071464
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Catching a wave: the adoption of voice and high commitment workplace practices in Britain: 1984-1998
Bryson, Alex; Gomez, Rafael; Kretschmer, Tobias - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005
In this paper we treat workplace voice and systems of high-commitment human resource management (HCHRM) as technological innovations in order to account for the uneven diffusion patterns observed across establishments. Using British data, the paper finds that variables highlighted in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745116
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Positive employee attitudes: how much human resource management do you need?
White, Michael; Bryson, Alex - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013
one of the means by which firms achieve higher performance is by investing in certain forms of HRM practice that help … range of performance measures. We find strong evidence that the relationship between employee job attitudes and our measure …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126498
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Does high involvement management lead to higher pay?
Böckerman, Petri; Bryson, Alex; Ilmakunnas, Pekka - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011
Using nationally representative survey data for Finnish employees linked to register data on their wages and work histories we find wage effects of high involvement management (HIM) practices are generally positive and significant. However, employees with better wage and work histories are more...
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All-Star or benchwarmer? relative age, cohort size and career success in the NHL
Bryson, Alex; Gomez, Rafael; Zhang, Tingting - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2015
We analyze the performance outcomes of National Hockey League (NHL) players over 18 seasons (1990-1991 to 2007-2008) as … chiefly by supply-side factors in the form of excess cohort competition and not quality differences since the performance of … cohorts. Performance-adjusted wage losses for those born in large birth cohorts are therefore greater than the raw estimates …
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