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Direct and indirect links between organizational work-home culture and employee well-being
Beauregard, T. A. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011
into the managerial performance appraisal process, and compensating or otherwise recognizing employees taking on absent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746508
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011071162
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The division of labor, coordination, and the demand for information processing
Michaels, Guy - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007
Since Adam Smith’s time, the division of labor in production has increased significantly, while information processing has become an important part of work. This paper examines whether the need to coordinate an increasingly complex division of labor has raised the demand for clerical office...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745003
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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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What do unions do to executive compensation?
Gomez, Rafael; Tzioumis, Konstantinos - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006
not significantly reduce the performance sensitivity of CEO compensation as compared to non-union firms. These results are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746287
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The division of labor, coordination, and the demand for information processing
Michaels, Guy - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007
The Division of Labour, Coordination, and the Demand for Information Processing* Since Adam Smith's time, the division of labour in production has increased significantly, while information processing has become an important part of work. This paper examines whether the need to coordinate an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746398
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Effort and comparison income: experimental and survey evidence
Clark, Andrew E.; Masclet, David; Villeval, Marie-Claire - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008
This paper considers the effect of status or relative income on work effort, combining experimental evidence from a gift-exchange game with the analysis of multi-country ISSP survey data. We find a consistent negative effect of others’ incomes on individual effort in both datasets. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746495
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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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Participation in organisations: economic approaches
Marsden, David; Cañibano, Almudena - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009
Under the auspices of the debate about high performance work systems, it has been suggested that the evidence of … economics broadly understood. It includes a meta-survey of research on the effects of participation on performance since the … argued that this is due in part to consideration of a wider range of performance outcomes, improved data and methods, and to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011071550