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Fighting Procrastination in the Workplace : An Experiment

Cadena, Ximena - 2014

intervention also improved worker satisfaction and reduced stress levels, without affecting the quality of the loan officers …

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Employee Ownership, Employee Attitudes, and Firm Performance

Kruse, Douglas; Blasi, Joseph R. - 2021

Employee ownership in U.S. companies has grown substantially in the past 20 years. This paper reviews and provides some meta-analyses on the accumulated evidence concerning the prevalence, causes, and effects of employee ownership, covering 25 studies of employee attitudes and behaviors, and 27...

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How Was the Weekend? How the Social Context Underlies Weekend Effects in Happiness and Other Emotions for Us Workers

Helliwell, John F. - 2015

almost identical for all workers. We then explore the sources of weekend effects and find that workplace trust and workplace … smaller proportions explained for the remaining three emotions - worry, anger and stress …

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The Impact of Job Stress on Smoking and Quitting : Evidence from the Hrs

Ayyagari, Padmaja - 2010

This paper examines the impact of job-related stress on smoking behavior. We use data from the Health and Retirement … Study to examine how high job stress affects the probability that smokers quit and the number of cigarettes smoked for … also included to control for occupational characteristics other than stress; time dummies control for the secular decline …

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Procrastination in the Workplace : Evidence from the U.S. Patent Office

Frakes, Michael - 2016

, especially in the workplace. In this paper, we attempt to fill these gaps by exploring procrastination among U.S. patent …

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Does Rosie Like Riveting? Male and Female Occupational Choices

Lordan, Grace - 2016

Occupational segregation and pay gaps by gender remain large while many of the constraints traditionally believed to be responsible for these gaps have weakened over time. Here, we explore the possibility that women and men have different tastes for the content of the work they do. We run...

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Well-Being and Trust in the Workplace

Helliwell, John F. - 2009

-financial job characteristics, especially workplace trust and other measures of the quality of social capital in workplaces. For …

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Employee Response to Compulsory Short-Time Work

Fuchs, Victor R.; Jacobsen, Joyce P. - 2021

This paper reports the results of a survey of over 1500 employees who faced compulsory reductions of 10 percent in hours of work and earnings during the second half of 1985. The workers were asked how they used the free time and how they viewed the program, and their answers were analyzed in...

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What Motivates Effort? Evidence and Expert Forecasts

Della Vigna, Stefano - 2016

How much do different monetary and non-monetary motivators induce costly effort? Does the effectiveness line up with the expectations of researchers? We present the results of a large-scale real-effort experiment with 18 treatment arms. We compare the effect of three motivators: (i) standard...

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What Makes Them Tick? Employee Motives and Firm Innovation

Sauermann, Henry - 2015

We examine the impact of individual-level motives upon innovative effort and performance in firms. Drawing from economics and social psychology, we develop a model of the impact of individuals' motives and incentives upon their innovative effort and performance. Using data on over 11,000...

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