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Productivity Dynamics: The Role of Competition in a Service Industry

Breda, Thomas; Bryson, Alex; Forth, John - 2019

Using panel data for nearly all service providers in a single industry sector, we examine productivity responses to changes in competition in the United States. The sector offers workplace employee representation through trade union branches which compete with one another for union members whose...

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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 …

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Heterogeneity in union status and employee well-being

Haile, Getinet Astatike; Bryson, Alex; White, Michael J. - 2012

This paper examines if workplace and co-worker union status affect employee wellbeing. In contrast to the literature focusing on links between one's own membership status and wellbeing, we focus principally on non-union employees. We find that being in a union workplace and having union...

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Worker Representation

Bryson, Alex; Forth, John - 2022

the behavior and performance of employers. …

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Spillover Effects of Unionisation on Non-members' Well-being

Haile, Getinet Astatike; Bryson, Alex; White, Michael - 2014

The paper investigates whether unionisation has a spillover effect on wellbeing by comparing non-members in union and non-union workplaces. To this end, it adapts the social custom model of trade unions and goes on to conduct empirical analyses using linked employer-employee data and alternative...

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Does Job Support Make Workers Happy?

Böckerman, Petri; Bryson, Alex; Kauhanen, Antti; … - 2017

Using linked employer-employee data for Finland we examine associations between job design and ten measures of worker wellbeing. In accordance with Karasek's (1979) model we find positive correlations between many aspects of worker wellbeing and job control. However, contrary to the model, job...

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HRM and Small-Firm Employee Motivation: Before and after the Recession

Bryson, Alex; White, Michael - 2017

) practices which have been linked to high performance in larger firms. We contribute to this literature by exploiting linked … characterizes 'high performance work systems' (HWPS) and 'strategic human resource management' (SHRM). Although the HPWS effect on …

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Union wage effects

Bryson, Alex - In: IZA World of Labor (2014)

Despite declining bargaining power, unions continue to generate a wage premium. Some feel collective bargaining has had its day. Politicians on both sides of the Atlantic have recently called for the removal of bargaining rights from workers in the name of wage and employment flexibility, yet...

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When Does HRM 'Work' in Small British Enterprises?

White, Michael; Bryson, Alex - 2016

Using nationally representative workplace data we find substantial use of high-performance work systems (HPWS) in …

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HPWS in the Public Sector: Are There Mutual Gains?

White, Michael; Bryson, Alex - 2018

Few studies investigate the links between high-performance work systems (HPWS) on public sector organizational … performance and worker job attitudes. We fill this gap with analyses of these links using linked employer-employee surveys of … organizational performance in the public sector but no associations with worker attitudes. The implication is that, in contrast to …

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