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Mutual Gains? Is There a Role for Employee Engagement in the Modern Workplace?
Bryson, Alex - 2017
employee engagement are independently associated with improvements in workplace performance. I consider the implications of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011786962
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The Effect of Age Diversity in Groups on Peer Evaluations and Individual Performance
Görlitz, Katja; Sels, Tim - 2021
This study analyzes how individuals evaluate their peers' performance in a high stakes tournament in response to being … how age diverse groups affect individual performance in professional golf tournaments. The results show that peer and … superior evaluations as well as individual performance are lower in age diverse groups. Further evidence suggests that these …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012882498
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Reference Dependent Preferences and the Impact of Wage Increases on Job Satisfaction: Theory and Evidence
Grund, Christian; Sliwka, Dirk - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
The impact of wage increases on job satisfaction is explored theoretically and empirically. To do this, we apply a utility function that rises with the absolute wage level as well as with wage increases. It is shown that when employees can influence their wages by exerting effort, myopic utility...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822174
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Trust-Based Work-Time and Product Improvements: Evidence from Firm Level Data
Godart, Olivier; Görg, Holger; Hanley, Aoife - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We explore whether the introduction of trust based working hours is related to the subsequent innovation performance of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884337
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Working Hours and Productivity
Collewet, Marion; Sauermann, Jan - 2017
performance of a sample of call centre agents. We exploit variation in the number of hours worked by the same employee across days …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653450
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Reference dependent preferences and the impact of wage increases on job satisfaction: theory and evidence
Grund, Christian; Sliwka, Dirk - 2005
The impact of wage increases on job satisfaction is explored theoretically and empirically. To do this, we apply a utility function that rises with the absolute wage level as well as with wage increases. It is shown that when employees can influence their wages by exerting effort, myopic utility...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267564
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Heterogeneity of Skill Needs and Job Complexity: Evidence from the OECD PIAAC Survey
Pouliakas, Konstantinos; Russo, Giovanni - 2015
We use information from the new OECD Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC) to investigate the link between job tasks and cognitive skill demand in 22 advanced economies. Skill demand is operationalized by the assessed literacy and numeracy skills of workers with well-matched skills to their job duties....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401652
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The Effect of Announced Downsizing on Workplace Performance: Evidence from a Retail Chain
Friebel, Guido; Heinz, Matthias; Zubanov, Nikolay - 2016
We estimate the effect of downsizing announcement on workplace performance using data from a German bakery chain of 193 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011479257
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Birds of a Feather Earn Together. Gender and Peer Effects at the Workplace
Messina, Julián; Sanz-de-Galdeano, Anna; Terskaya, … - 2024
Utilizing comprehensive administrative data from Brazil, we investigate the impact of peer effects on wages, considering both within-gender and cross-gender dynamics. Since the average productivity of both individuals and their peers is unobservable, we estimate these values using worker fixed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014469451
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Trust-Based Work-Time and Product Improvements: Evidence from Firm Level Data
Godart, Olivier; Görg, Holger; Hanley, Aoife - 2014
We explore whether the introduction of trust based working hours is related to the subsequent innovation performance of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010352329