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Employee Identification and Wages : On the Economics of "Affective Commitment"
Kampkötter, Patrick - 2020
We study the role of employees' identification to the employer for wage growth. We first show in a formal model that identification implies countervailing effects: Employees with higher identification are more valuable as they exert higher efforts, but have weaker bargaining positions, and less...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012824439
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Extrinsic Rewards and Intrinsic Motives : Standard and Behavioral Approaches to Agency and Labor Markets
Rebitzer, James B. - 2010
Employers structure pay and employment relationships to mitigate agency problems. A large literature in economics documents how the resolution of these problems shapes personnel policies and labor markets. For the most part, the study of agency in employment relationships relies on highly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139879
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Examining the Relationship between Employee Resistance to Changes in Job Conditions and Wider Organisational Change : Evidence from Ireland
Cronin, Hugh - 2014
This paper uses a linked employer-employee dataset, the National Employment Survey, to examine the determinants of organisational change and employee resistance to change and, specifically, to examine the influence of employee inflexibility on the implementation of firm-level policies aimed at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013046670
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Coming to Work While Sick : An Economic Theory of Presenteeism with an Application to German Data
Hirsch, Boris - 2015
Presenteeism, i.e. attending work while sick, is widespread and associated with significant costs. Still, economic analyses of this phenomenon are rare. In a theoretical model, we show that presenteeism arises due to differences between workers in (health-related) disutility from workplace...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013023426
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Further Training and Affective Commitment
Grund, Christian - 2018
We investigate the relation of further training and employees' affective commitment. In doing so, we distinguish between a support effect and a participation effect: On the one hand we analyze how a firm's general support for further training is associated with the affective commitment of their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012923222
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Employee Trust and Workplace Performance
Brown, Sarah - 2014
We explore the relationship between employee trust of managers and workplace performance. We present a theoretical … framework which serves to establish a link between employee trust and firm performance as well as to identify possible … whether the average level of employee trust within the workplace influences workplace performance. We exploit the 2004 and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013051439
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The Healthy Fright of Losing a Good One for a Bad One
Cristini, Annalisa - 2012
In this paper we study the effect of different degrees of employment protection on absenteeism, paying attention to differences between workers moving from protected jobs to insecure jobs, on the one hand, and workers moving from insecure to secure jobs, on the other hand. Using a large...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013110202
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Psychological Effects of Poverty on Time Preferences
Bartoš, Vojtěch; Bauer, Michal; Chytilová, Julie; … - 2023
We test whether an environment of poverty affects time preferences through purely psychological channels. We measured discount rates among farmers in Uganda who made decisions about when to enjoy entertainment instead of working. To circumvent the role of economic constraints, we experimentally...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014259851
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Helping and Antisocial Behavior in the Workplace
Haylock, Michael; Kampkötter, Patrick; Kosfeld, Michael; … - 2023
We offer a comprehensive analysis of the organizational and behavioral foundations of employees' helping and antisocial behavior as an integral part of a firm's workplace culture and working climate. Using representative employer-employee panel data of larger German private-sector firms, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014344569
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012943704