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Bayari, Celal - 2011

Japanese manufacturers have reconstituted the Japanese management and production system in Australia at different levels of success since the late 1960s (Hutchinson and Nicholas 1994, Nicholas and Purcell 2001, Purcell et al. 1999). Three of the essential elements of the Japanese system,...

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Ethnocentrism and Internal Compensation Structuring: An Experimental Examination of Point Factor Job Evaluation

Martin, Daniel; Wiley, Donna; Legree, Peter - 2006

“Comparable Worth” represents the concept that men, women, minorities, and whites should receive equal pay for work of equal value from their employer. Much research and many articles have been written in regards to overall pay inequities between men and women; however information regarding...

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Does high involvement management lead to higher pay?

Böckerman, Petri; Bryson, Alex; Ilmakunnas, Pekka - 2011

Using nationally representative survey data for Finnish employees linked to register data on their wages and work histories we find wage effects of high involvement management (HIM) practices are generally positive and significant. However, employees with better wage and work histories are more...

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Importance of the management incentives for the improvement of company’s activities

Slavica, Stevanovic; Ivana, Simeunovic - 2011

than as a financial outlay, could expect a commitment of the managers to the interests of the company, achievement of … with the value created to business owners. Moreover we have identified financial measures for manager’s contribution to the … company operations, used as a criterion for entitlement to managers’ incentives. Paper ends by assessing the need to adjust …

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Employee coverage of high-performance work systems in Spain: a comparative analysis before and during economic retrenchment

Pruneda, Gabriel - 2014

The aim of this paper is to provide the first comprehensive study of high-performance work systems (HPWS) in the Spanish private sector. Based on a representative sample at national level of 9,086 salaried employees, drawn from the Quality of Life at Work Survey, we build three HRM bundles...

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Why Is Executive Compensation So High? A Model of Executive Compensation

Harashima, Taiji - 2019

In this paper, I examine the mechanism of extremely high executive compensation based on the concept of ranking value and preference, and show that the origin of such extremely high compensation is economic rents. Ranking value and preference provide monopoly powers, profits, and rents to...

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Market-based incentives

Grochulski, Borys; Zhang, Yuzhe - 2013

We study optimal incentives in a principal-agent problem in which the agent's outside option is determined endogenously in a competitive labor market. In equilibrium, strong performance increases the agent's market value. When this value becomes sufficiently high, the threat of the agent's...

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A Romanian approach of the program "Employee of the month"

Armean, Bianca; Baleanu, Virginia; Irimie, Sabin Ioan - 2012

Work motivation was and remained a "hot topic" for management and organizational behavior studies, as well as a major concern for practice of Human Resource Management. While such studies have evidenced a lot of factors of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation having different influences on...

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The Moderating Effect of Environmental Turbulence in the Relationship between Entrepreneurial Management and Firm Performance

Pratono, Aluisius Hery; Mahmood, Rosli - 2014

Contingency theory points out the adaptive management is crucial point to sustainable firm performance. This research aims to determine the relative importance of a set of variables comprising the four entrepreneurial management variables, i.e. strategic orientation, organization culture,...

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Business Excellence through the Theory of Accountability

Aithal, Sreeramana - 2021

Background/Purpose: Theory of Accountability or Theory A is argued to be the best tool for enhancing organizational performance in the 21st century due to the relevance of its motivational and controlling factors with changing competitive environment of organizational business. Objective: To...

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