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That football Head Coaches will be dismissed for poor performance and will quit when they have better outside options seems to be nothing more than a statement of the obvious. But owners may find it hard to distinguish poor performance from bad luck and may find it difficult to identify and...
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One expects those who lead organisations to affect their performance. If not why would organisations spend so much time and money appointing and incentivising their leaders? Yet there is little evidence establishing a causal link between leaders and organisational performance. Using game-by-game...
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Across Europe, there are many differing opinions on whether workplace employee representation should be encouraged or discouraged. Yet there is very little evidence on the variations in workplace employee representation across Europe or the reasons for this. We use a workplace survey covering 27...
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I examine the history of employee engagement and how it has been characterised by thinkers in sociology, psychology, management and economics. I suggest that, while employers may choose to invest in employee engagement, there are alternative management strategies that may be profit-maximising. I...
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Drawing on principal-agent perspectives on corporate governance, this paper examines whether employees' hourly pay is … with earlier papers which indicate that higher level employees are the primary beneficiaries of higher pay from dispersed …
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A detailed longitudinal dataset is assembled containing annual performance and biographical data for every player over the entire history of professional major league baseball. The data are then aggregated to the team level for the period 1920-2009 in order to test whether teams built on a more...
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. Employees have to invest some of their own money by purchasing shares at the discounted rate to accept the gift. A sizeable … that places its ESPP at the heart of its employee compensation system, we compare the workplace behaviour of employees who … the plan, but are no more involved in co-monitoring the performance of fellow employees than non-Plan members. We also …
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