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Trading Places: Employers, Unions and the Manufacture of Voice
Bryson, Alex; Gomez, Rafael; Willman, P - Centre for Economic Performance, 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/10005220075
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Union Organization in Great Britain
Bryson, Alex; Willman, P - Centre for Economic Performance, 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/10005220079
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Why Do Voice Regimes Differ?
Bryson, Alex; Gomez, Rafael; Willman, P - Centre for Economic Performance, 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/10005670542
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HRM and Workplace Motivation: Incremental and Threshold Effects
Bryson, Alex; White, Michael - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2011
The HRM-performance linkage often invokes an assumption of increased employee commitment to the organization and other …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365661
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Does High Involvement Management Improve Worker Wellbeing?
Bryson, Alex; Böckerman, Petri; Ilmakunnas, Pekka - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2011
Employees exposed to high involvement management (HIM) practices have higher subjective wellbeing, fewer accidents but more short absence spells than "like" employees not exposed to HIM. These results are robust to extensive work, wage and sickness absence history controls. We present a model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009369378
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Does High Involvement Management Lead to Higher Pay?
Bryson, Alex; Böckerman, Petri; Ilmakunnas, Pekka - Centre for Economic Performance, 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/10008854565
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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 - Centre for Economic Performance, 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/10005150973
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All-Star or Benchwarmer? Relative Age, Cohort Size and Career Success in the NHL
Bryson, Alex; Gomez, Rafael; Zhang, Tingting - Centre for Economic Performance, 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011165722