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The present study uses data for workplaces in all sectors of ten European countries to investigate whether firms that have introduced new forms of work organisation are more likely to use variable pay schemes. Also the role played by institutional forces and employees’ representatives is...
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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 highlight the...
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The effectiveness of conventional firm-specific incentive tools is assessed based on the perceptions of a unique sample of employees from seven European countries. A ‘menu’ of conditions likely to elicit optimal worker response to specific incentives is also revealed. The results suggest...
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We investigate the relationship between tournament prices and effort choices in the presence of favoritism. High tournament prizes can decrease agents’ effort supply when the choice of the winner is not perfectly objective but affected to some extent by personal preferences of an evaluator.
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Bis heute fehlen in der empirischen Forschung zum HR-Outsourcing umfangreiche verlaessliche Daten hinsichtlich der Nutzung von Personaldienstleistungen durch Unternehmen. Anhand der Auswertungen unserer Befragung von 1021 Unternehmen untersuchen wir die Charakteristika der Nachfrager nach...
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This article specifies the concept of 'Organizational Culture of Participation' (OCP) as that part of an organizational culture which is linked to employee participation. Three OCP-types are distinguished by the way participation is promoted and supported in an organizational culture: (1) leader...
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Whereas employee participation is generally conceived to facilitate implementation of organizational change, only limited research has investigated whether it may reduce the negative effects of downsizing. The present study compares two Swedish hospitals that implemented downsizing in different...
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Das (Personal-) Management und die Organisation von internationalen Entwicklungs-NGOs sind bisher wenig erforscht. Ziel dieses Beitrags ist es, Aufschluss darueber zu gewinnen, wie diese Organisationen ihre internationalen Aktivitaeten koordinieren und welche Einflussfaktoren hier eine Rolle...
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