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World Management Survey at 18: Lessons and the Way Forward
Scur, Daniela; Sadun, Raffaella; Van Reenen, John; … - 2021
Understanding how differences in management "best practices" affect organizational outcomes has been a focus of both theoretical and empirical work in the fields of management, sociology, economics and public policy. The World Management Survey (WMS) project was born almost two decades ago with...
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The Impact of a New Quality Management Practice on Firm Performance: Evidence from Pakistan
Faran, Mahvish; Taylor, Karl - 2021
This paper uses a novel firm level data set to investigate the impact of a unique quality management practice on the production and productivity of a large-scale garments manufacturer in Pakistan. The analysis provides evidence that production complexity is an important element in determining...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012882451
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Incentives and cooperation in firms: Field evidence
Berger, Johannes; Herbertz, Claus; Sliwka, Dirk - 2011
intensity of team incentives and several survey measures of cooperation. Moreover, higher powered team incentives are associated …We empirically investigate the impact of incentive scheme structure on the degree of cooperation in firms using a … importance of individual, team, and company performance for compensation, we find a significant positive relation between the …
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Team structure and the effectiveness of collective performance pay
Ratto, Marisa; Tominey, Emma; Vergé, Thibaud - 2012
assess whether rewarding collective performance necessarily promotes cooperation. We show that such team structure creates … countries. In the UK, the scheme designers favoured collective performance pay with the aim to foster cooperation across offices …. The resulting team structure included several offices (subteams) within the same team, defined by the remuneration scheme …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287638
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Flexible Workplace Practices and Labor Productivity
Bauer, Thomas K. - 2003
Using a German employer-employee matched panel data set this paper examines the effects of High Performance Workplace Systems (HPWSs) on labor productivity (defined as sales per worker) and labor efficiency (defined as the inverse of unit labor costs). The estimation results indicate that simple...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262099
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High Performance Workplace Practices and Job Satisfaction: Evidence from Europe
Bauer, Thomas K. - 2004
, and increased communication with co-workers. Being involved in team work and job rotations as well as supporting human …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278986
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Cognitive Performance in the Home Office - Evidence from Professional Chess
Künn, Steffen; Seel, Christian; Zegners, Dainis - 2020
During the recent COVID-19 pandemic, traditional (offline) chess tournaments were prohibited and instead held online. We exploit this as a unique setting to assess the impact of moving offline tasks online on the cognitive performance of individuals. We use the Artificial Intelligence embodied...
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Corporate Hierarchies under Employee Representation
Belloc, Filippo; Burdin, Gabriel; Landini, Fabio - 2020
This paper analyzes whether workplace employee representation (ER) affects the design of firm hierarchies. We rationalize the role of ER within a knowledge-based model of hierarchies, where the firm's choice of hierarchical layers depends on the trade-off between communication and knowledge...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012322516
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Flexible Workplace Practices and Labor Productivity
Bauer, Thomas K. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
Using a German employer-employee matched panel data set this paper examines the effects of High Performance Workplace Systems (HPWSs) on labor productivity (defined as sales per worker) and labor efficiency (defined as the inverse of unit labor costs). The estimation results indicate that simple...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763599
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High Performance Workplace Practices and Job Satisfaction: Evidence from Europe
Bauer, Thomas K. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
, and increased communication with co-workers. Being involved in team work and job rotations as well as supporting human …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005700869