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Human resource management and productivity

Bloom, Nick; Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010

In this chapter we examine the relationship between Human Resource Management (HRM) and productivity. HRM includes incentive pay (individual and group) as well as many nonpay aspects of the employment relationship such as matching (hiring and firing) and work organization (e.g. teams, autonomy)....

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Recent advances in the empirics of organizational economics

Bloom, Nick; Sadun, Raffaella; Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010

We present a survey of recent contributions in the empirical organizational economics, focusing on management practices and decentralization. Productivity dispersion between firms and countries has motivated the improved measurement of firm organization across industries and countries. There...

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Measuring and explaining management practices across firms and countries

Bloom, Nick; Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

We use an innovative survey tool to collect management practice data from 732 medium sized manufacturing firms in the US, France, Germany and the UK. These measures of managerial practice are strongly associated with firm-level productivity, profitability, Tobin’s Q, sales growth and survival...

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Identifying technology spillovers and product market rivalry

Bloom, Nick; Schankerman, Mark; Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

. A central problem in the literature is that firm performance is affected by two countervailing "spillovers" : a positive …

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Do organisational climate and strategic orientation moderate the relationship between human resource management practices and productivity?

Neal, Andrew; West, Michael A.; Patterson, Malcolm G. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

Contingency formulations of Human Resource Management (HRM) theory suggest that the effectiveness of HRM practices should vary across firms. This study examined whether the relationship between HRM practices and productivity in manufacturing companies is contingent upon organizational climate...

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Unions and productivity, financial performance and investment: international evidence

Metcalf, David - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002

, financial performance is likely to be worse. If the product market is uncompetitive this might imply a simple transfer from … senescence. Therefore the impact of unions on productivity, financial performance and investment is extremely important. This … the productivity performance of the workplace or firm. The evidence indicates that, in the USA, workplaces with both high …

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Organizational climate and company productivity: the role of employee affect and employee level

Patterson, Malcolm; Warr, Peter; West, Michael - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

Consistent with a growing number of models about affect and behaviour and with a recognition that perception alone provides no impetus for action, it was predicted that associations between company climate and productivity would be mediated by average level of job satisfaction. In a study of 42...

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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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How special is the special relationship?: using the impact of R&D spillovers on UK firms as a test of technology sourcing

Griffith, Rachel; Harrison, Rupert; Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

How much does US-based R&D benefit other countries and through what mechanisms? We test the "technology sourcing" hypothesis that foreign research labs located on US soil tap into US R&D spillovers and improve home country productivity. Using panels of UK and US firms matched to patent data we...

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