High-performance workplace practices from the employees' perspective

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This paper examines the effects of high performance workplace practices on employees' work attitudes, wage and quality of work. The model is recursive and workplace practices can affect work attitudes both directly and indirectly, by influencing the wage and job content. The results suggest three distinct ways to elicit motivation: give employees voice either in formal arrangements and/or by promoting suggestions, set up partly autonomous teams and adopt appraisal schemes. Appraisals indirect...

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Authors: Cristini, A

• Publication status: Published
• Peer review status: Peer reviewed
• Publisher: ESRC Centre on Skills, Knowledge and Organisational Performance (SKOPE) Publisher's website
• Series: SKOPE Research Paper
• Place of publication: http://www.skope.ox.ac.uk/publications
• Publication date: 2008-01-01
• ISSN: 1466-1535
• Paper number: 77, March 2008
• Language: English
• Keywords: job satisfaction; JEL:J28; working conditions; JEL:J30; new workplace practices; work attitudes; wages; motivation; JEL:L23
• Subjects: Education; Employment