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) 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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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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Using nationally representative workplace data we find substantial use of high-performance work systems (HPWS) in …
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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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We present a simple framework for analyzing decline in union voice in the Anglo-American world and its replacement by non-union, often direct, forms of worker voice. We argue that it is a decline in the in-flow to unionisation among employers and workers, rather than an increase in the outflow...
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Using matched employer-employee data for Britain, we examine ethnic wage differentials among full-time employees. We find substantial ethnic segregation across workplaces: around three-fifths of workplaces in Britain employ no ethnic minority workers. However, this workplace segregation does not...
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Using matched employer-employee data for Britain, we examine ethnic wage differentials among full-time employees. We find substantial ethnic segregation across workplaces: around three-fifths of workplaces in Britain employ no ethnic minority workers. However, this workplace segregation does not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012658276
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...
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role of female managers in closing the GWG is more pronounced when employees are paid for performance, consistent with the … proposition that women are more likely to be paid equitably when managers have discretion in the way they reward performance and …
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011415227