This document discusses a study examining the effect of trust-based work time (TBW) on the gender wage gap within firms in Germany. TBW gives employees autonomy over their work schedules. The study uses linked employer-employee data to compare the within-firm gender wage gap before and after some firms adopted TBW between 2006-2008. It finds TBW adoption led to a reduction in the wage gap, driven by absolute wage gains for women. Further analysis suggests this was likely due to an increase in the share of women performing higher-skilled job tasks after TBW adoption, rather than changes to part-time work. The findings indicate organizational flexibility in work hours through TBW can promote gender wage equality.
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1Thesis Statement The minimum wage, the least possible pa.docxvickeryr87
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Thesis Statement
The minimum wage, the least possible payment an employer can pay their workers as enshrined in labor laws regarding a certain industry, should be changed based on the rapidly changing economic times and the fact that different professions keep changing with regards to skills desirable. This will be in furtherance with the spirit of conscious capitalism and a match to embracing the best ever conditions of employees across the globe.
Annotated Biography
Annotation Reference 1:
Tilly, C. (2017). From mobilization to revolution. In Collective Violence, Contentious Politics, and Social Change (pp. 71-91). Routledge.
Annotation: The article addresses the various milestones and achievements arrived at by activists of social change in the past with regards improving universal employee remuneration schemes and other legislation loops that provided for employee exploitation based on poor payments. The author identifies the movement groups' movements and the factors that influenced their initiatives such as poor payments during the working hours and working for extra hours without extra pay. Tilly found out that the existing minimum wage was set as a culmination of radical labor movement activities and was based on the then prevailing economic conditions. The author recommends a continuous course of action to give employees their dignity through fair remuneration. This article will inform this research paper especially on appreciating the plight of employees subjected to exploitative constant minimum wage cutline in the face of the ever-rising cost of living. Secondly, the article will inform this paper on the foundational philosophies that inform the reasons that warrant a review of the minimum wage in the United States of America and to the extension of other parts of the world. Finally, this article will provide the basic economic parameters used in determining the frequency of employee remuneration schemes as well as their implications on the minimum salaries given to employees in all industries.
Annotation Reference 2:
Dube, A., Lester, T. W., & Reich, M. (2010). Minimum wage effects across state borders: Estimates using contiguous counties. The review of economics and statistics, 92(4), 945- 964.
Annotation: The research work by the three authors sought to investigate the effects of the minimum wage concept on the productivity of employees with the different levels of economy. Dube, Lester, and Reich found that a constant minimum wage in the face of the dynamic nature of the other parameters of an economy demoralized employees in all industries based on poor working motivation, attracted few employees seeking to serve an institution with a minimum wage, resulted in low employee turn-over and skill retention while at the same time leading to poor personal development of employee with regards to increasing their skill capacity, reducing their productivity and consequently resulting in poor organizational performance. The re.
Creating a Flexible and Inclusive Work Culture to Drive Employee Engagement:
This session will focus on creating a flexible and inclusive work culture as a business strategy to drive employee engagement and competitive advantage. Judi Casey, Director of the Sloan Work and Family Research Network, will review research data linking flexible work cultures with positive returns on investment such as productivity, retention and being seen as an employer of choice. With Amy Munichiello, Inclusiveness Strategy Consultant at Ernst & Young.
Work Relations and Job Satisfaction of Customer Service Representativesijtsrd
This research emphasizes the association between work relations of customer service representatives in terms of their personal profiles, of workplace relationships, of job satisfaction, of organizational commitment and employee loyalty. Jeric H. Pediglorio "Work Relations and Job Satisfaction of Customer Service Representatives" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-7 | Issue-2 , April 2023, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com.com/papers/ijtsrd56241.pdf Paper URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com.com/other-scientific-research-area/other/56241/work-relations-and-job-satisfaction-of-customer-service-representatives/jeric-h-pediglorio
The paper examines the effect of innovative work practices on the prevalence of sickness absence and accidents at work. We focus on several different aspects of workplace innovations (self-managed teams, information sharing, employer-provided training and incentive pay) along with the “bundles” of those practices. We use nationally representative individual-level data from the Finnish Quality of Work Life Survey from 2008. Using single equation models, we find that innovative work practices increase short-term sickness absence for blue-collar and lower white-collar employees. In twoequation models that treat innovative workplace practices as endogenous variables we do not find relationship between innovative work practices and sickness absence or accidents at work.
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Read
The King Company Background
and
Human Resource Development
to review information on the company.
Address the following questions in an essay format which includes an introduction and conclusion (not a Q & A format):
As an HR consultant, design a process for the King Company to analyze what changes are needed in their HRD procedures, policies, and practices to improve the development of employees. Discuss the process you would follow and why you selected those process steps.
Be sure to bring in what you have learned from your change management, internal consulting, and organizational development readings.
Provide private-sector employer examples of HRM programs, systems, processes, and/or procedures as you address the assignment requirements. Provide names of the employers in your examples. Use different employer examples in this course than what have been used previously in your other papers and courses.
Utilize information from
at least 2 sources from the Online Library
to help strengthen and validate your discussion.
Paper length:
3–4 pages
(not counting the cover and reference pages).
Journal 1
Editorial introduction: An introduction to employer engagement in the field of HRM.
Blending social policy and HRM research in promoting vulnerable groups’ labour market participation Rik van Berkel, Utrecht School of Governance, Utrecht University, The Netherlands Jo Ingold , Leeds University Business School, UK Patrick McGurk, University of Greenwich Business School, UK Paul Boselie, Utrecht School of Governance, Utrecht University, The Netherlands Thomas Bredgaard, Department of Political Science, University of Aalborg, Denmark Human Resource Management Journal, Vol 27, no 4, 2017, pages 503–513 Contact: Dr. Rik van Berkel, Utrecht University, Bijlhouwerstraat 6, 3511ZC Utrecht, Netherlands. Email:
[email protected]
INTRODUCTION HRM and vulnerable groups
The aim of this special issue, and our challenge to HRM scholars and practitioners, is to bring vulnerable labour market groups into the mainstream of HRM. In doing so, this special issue introduces the relatively novel concept of “employer engagement.” We define employer engagement as the active involvement of employers in addressing the societal challenge of promoting the labour market participation of vulnerable groups. Since its origins in the early 1980s (Paauwe, 2009), the discipline of HRM has focused on the added value of human resources, human capital, and employees. It does so largely with a focus on the HRM of core employees, in terms of high-skill workers, managers, and specialist functions within large multinational companies (Keegan and Boselie, 2006; Lewin, 2011). A focus on the “most valuable employees” is also visible in the emphasis on talent management in strategic HRM theory and practice, with the potential consequence of reproducing distinctions between groups of workers (Lepak and Snell, 2002). Comparatively, HRM in relation to “vulnerable worke.
New ways of working does flexibility in time and location o.docxhenrymartin15260
New ways of working: does flexibility in
time and location of work change work
behavior and affect business outcomes?
Merle M. Bloka,*, Liesbeth Groenesteijna,b, Roos Schelvisa and Peter Vinka,b
a, TNO, P.O. Box 718, 2130 AS Hoofddorp, The Netherlands.
b Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Landbergstraat 15, 2628 CE Delft,
The Netherlands.
Abstract. In the changing modern economy some new factors have been addressed that are of importance for productivity and
economic growth, such as human skills, workplace organization, information and communication technologies (ICT) and
knowledge sharing. An increasing number of companies and organizations are implementing measures to better address these
factors, often referred to as ‘the New Ways of Working (NWW)’. This consists of a large variety of measures that enable flexi-
bility in the time and location of work. Expectations of these measures are often high, such as a reduction in operating costs
and an increase of productivity. However, scientific proof is still lacking, and it is worth asking whether al these implementa-
tions actually cause a change in work behavior and effect business outcomes positively. This article describes a case study of
three departments (total of 73 employees) that changed from a traditional way of working towards a new way of working.
Questionnaires and a new developed objective measurement system called ‘[email protected]’ were used to measure changes in work
behavior (i.e. increased variation in work location, work times and a change towards NWW management style) and the effect
on business objectives such as knowledge sharing, employees satisfaction, and collaboration.
Keywords: new ways of working, task facilitating office, knowledge worker, work behavior, business objectives
*Corresponding author: Merle Blok. E-mail: [email protected]
1. Introduction
The modern economy is changing from agriculture
and industrial manufacturing to a service and knowl-
edge driven economy. Knowledge is recognized as
the driver of productivity and economic growth, and
statistics form the OECD studies show that the num-
ber of employees working for knowledge- intensive
service sector is increasing [6]. Knowledge work is
supported by a revolution in new ICT applications
and communication networks. These innovations has
changed our perceptions on work and made it possi-
ble to work at any location at any time [5]. The pro-
liferating use of information has long been seen as
‘the’ aspect that would bring us higher productivity
and better business outcomes. However aspects such
as human talent can be seen of even greater impor-
tance, since that makes it possible to share knowledge,
adapt and innovate [1]. It is therefore argued that em-
ployees, especially knowledge workers, should be
more empowered to work more efficiently and effec-
tively [4]. This empowe.
As business cycles ebb and flow, flexibility can assist organizations to prosper in a world that is in constant flux, and help employees to contribute their best. Judi Casey from the Sloan Network outlines the business benefits of implementing flexible work arrangements in your organization. Discover how to create a culture of flexibility that will grow your business with more efficient practices, reduce stress and health care costs, and reduce your carbon footprint. Discover how to circumvent potential obstacles such as selling to senior leaders, and managing the resistance of managers and co-workers.
We examine the effects of establishment- and industry-level labor market turnover on employees’ well-being. The linked employer-employee panel data contain both survey information on employees’ subjective well-being and comprehensive register-based information on job and worker flows. Labor market turbulence decreases well-being as experienced job satisfaction and satisfaction with job security are negatively related to the previous year’s flows. We test for the existence of compensating wage differentials by explaining wages and job satisfaction with average uncertainties, measured by an indicator for a high moving average of past excessive turnover (churning) rate. The results are consistent with compensating wage differentials, since high uncertainty increases real wages, but has no effect on job satisfaction.
The file contains a research proposal written on Employee turnover in Unilever, Pakistan addressing the following problem statement and research queries:
Research Objective:
The purpose of the study is:
‘’To investigate the factors influencing the employees turnover in Unilever Pakistan’’.
Research Questions:
1. To what extent unskilled labor leads to employee turnover?
2. Does work-life balance effects the employee turnover?
3. What contributions wage rate have toward employee turnover?
4. How much influence age have on employee turnover?
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EMPLOYEE AUTONOMY AND THE WITHIN-FIRM GENDER WAGE GAP: THE CASE OF TRUST-BASED WORK TIME
1. EMPLOYEE AUTONOMY AND THE
WITHIN-FIRM GENDER WAGE GAP:
THE CASE OF TRUST-BASED WORK TIME
2019 GFP Annual Conference - Sydney, Australia
Steffen Viete
21 June, 2019
2. BACKGROUND
2
Technological change requires complementary investments in organizational
practices to affect firm performance (e.g. Bresnahan et al., 2002, Brynjolfsson et al., 2018)
Information technology (IT) is becoming mobile and detached from location
dissolving the temporal and spatial boundaries of work (e.g. Kossek and Michel, 2010)
This facilitates new organizational practices which allow employees to decide
where and when to engage in work-related tasks
There is evidence that firms enjoy higher returns from using mobile IT when
they provide workplace flexibility through formal work policies (Viete & Erdsiek, 2018)
3. BACKGROUND
WORKPLACE FLEXIBILITY IS WIDELY EXPECTED TO FOSTER
GENDER EQUALITY IN THE LABOR MARKET
3
Academia (e.g. Goldin, 2014 AER)
Disproportionate reward for
working long and particular hours in
many occupations
Women‘s social roles still associated
with higher non-work obligations
Change in the structure of work
"must involve a reduction in the
dependence of remuneration on
particular segments of time"
Public Debate
4. THIS PAPER
4
Research question:
What is the effect of the successful provision of maximum autonomy over the
structure of the workday on the gender wage gap (GWG) within the firm?
Effect is ambiguous from a theoretical perspective:
Negative, if dependence of remuneration on working particular segments of
time is reduced (Goldin, 2014)
Positive, if it results in higher compensating wage differentials for women
(Rosen, 1986)
5. TRUST-BASED WORK TIME (TBW)
5
Variants of TBW first appeared in Germany during the 1990s
Defining features:
• Abandonment of formal record of working hours
• Employee is merely evaluated by work output
• Delegation of autonomy to decide start- and endpoint, continuity and
duration of the workday
• Reduces the value placed on working specific hours and on the continuity of
work
Working arrangement with the highest degree of formal employee
autonomy in Germany (e.g. Wingen, 2004)
6. TRUST-BASED WORK TIME (TBW)
EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE
6
Beckmann et al. (2017, JEBO): TBW increases effort via intrinsic motivation
Godart et al. (2017, ILR): TBW adoption associated with higher innovation
Source: IAB Establishment Panel, own calculations.
7. 7
DATA
LINKED EMPLOYER-EMPLOYEE DATA - LIAB
IAB Establishment Panel
• Yearly representative business survey
• Ca. 19,000 establishments in Germany
• Since 2004 biannual question whether or not TBW is implemented
Employee Data (Employment History – BeH)
• German Employment Statistics Register based on individual employees‘
social insurance records
• Contains basic characteristics, e.g. gender, age, qualifications
• Gross daily earnings including overtime premiums and allowances
8. 8
DATA
OUTCOME: OBSERVED WITHIN-FIRM GENDER WAGE GAP
Average log differences of gross earnings 𝑤𝑤 between individuals 𝑖𝑖 of different
gender within each firm 𝑗𝑗 :
Average observed intra-firm GWG in LIAB
Data 2004-2012
Observed intra-firm GWG in LIAB Data -
Distribution in 2008
9. 9
METHODOLOGY
SAMPLE SELECTION
Research Design: ‘Treatment’ Methodology (e.g. Görg et al., 2016; Huber et al., 2016)
• Effect of introducing TBW between wave 2006 and 2008
• Retain all firms which did not use TBW in pre-treatment periods (2004-2006)
• Comparison of the within-firm GWG between adopter and non-adopter
Treatment:
Adoption of TBW
Control:
No adoption of TBW
pre-treatment post-treatment
2004 2006 2008 2010
adoption
10. 10
METHODOLOGY
SELECTION ISSUES
1. Non-random adoption of TBW by firms
Firms selectively rather than randomly introduce TBW
→ e.g. well-performing firms can afford to offer the amenity of TBW as well as
promote gender equality
Only compare ‘twin’ firms, which are observationally equivalent (Conditional
Difference-in-Differences, e.g. Heckman et al., 1998)
2. Non-random selection of individuals into firms w/o TBW
Women have higher preferences for workplace flexibility (Mas and Pallais, 2017)
→ more able women might select into firms with TBW in place
Compute outcome from individuals who were employed prior to the adoption of
TBW (e.g. Huber et al., 2016)
11. RESULTS
EFFECT ON THE WITHIN-FIRM GWG
11
Negative effect on the raw intra-firm GWG over three years after the adoption
(Panel A)
Result holds with slightly smaller magnitude among employees with pre-
adoption tenure (Panel B)
Note: Average Treatment Effects (ATE) with 90% confidence bands. N = 1290 with 131 treated and 1159 non-treated firms.
12. RESULTS
EFFECT ON WAGE LEVELS OF INCUMBENT EMPLOYEES
12
Reduction in GWG driven by absolute wage gains of women
Note: Average Treatment Effects (ATE) with 90% confidence bands. N = 1290 with 131 treated and 1159 non-treated firms.
13. RESULTS
EFFECT ON THE SHARE OF MALE EMPLOYEES
13
No significant effect on the gender composition of employees
Note: Average Treatment Effects (ATE) with 90% confidence bands. N = 1290 with 131 treated and 1159 non-treated firms.
14. POTENTIAL CHANNELS
14
1. Adjustments in the labor input (working time) within the same job
• Greater ability to structure the workday → facilitates adjustment of
(contractual) working hours
Estimate effect on the share of women in part-time contracts
2. Changes in the types of tasks and jobs performed
• Higher independence and autonomy under TBW might enable individuals
to perform different tasks
Estimate effect on share of women in positions with different job
requirements (based on KldB 2010)
15. POTENTIAL CHANNELS
SKILL REQUIREMENTS OF THE CURRENT JOB
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Distinguishes four requirement levels
Intended to reflect the degree of complexity of an occupation
Requirement level Example within same occupation
1: Unskilled or semi-skilled activities Health and nursing care helper 81301
2: Specialist activities Nurse 81302
3: Complex specialist activities Specialist nurse 81313
4: Highly complex activities General practitioner 81404
Source: Paulus et al. (2013).
16. POTENTIAL CHANNELS
ADJUSTMENT OF WORKING HOURS OR TASKS PERFORMED?
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No effect on the share of women in part-time contracts
Net increase (decrease) in the share of women in jobs with high (medium) skill
requirements
Year
% incumbent women in:
part-time
un-/semi-
skilled
tasks
skilled
tasks
complex
tasks
highly
complex tasks
2006 0.022 -0.004 0.058 -0.050 -0.004
2008 0.013 -0.001 -0.018*** 0.004 0.014***
2009 0.003 0.002 -0.020*** 0.003 0.015***
2010 0.016 0.006 -0.034*** 0.007 0.021***
adoption
Note: Average Treatment Effects (ATE). * p<0.10, ** p<0.05, *** p<0.01. N = 1290 with 131 treated and 1159 non-treated firms.
17. CONCLUSION
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Main findings:
Current technological change favors decentralized work policies
Flexibility in the form of trust-based work is not gender neutral and can lead to
absolute wage gains for women
Organizational change that seems to enable women to perform different tasks
Limitations / future research:
Effect heterogeneity across individuals due to the nature of tasks and demands
in terms of self-reliance very likely
Policy and managerial implications:
Debate on how policy should promote / regulate alternative working practices
to support work-life-balance and equal opportunities
Working time autonomy appears to be a relevant measure
18. THANK YOU
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Steffen Viete
Research Department “Digital Economy”
viete@zew.de
Tel: +49 (0)621-1235-359
ZEW – Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research
L 7,1
68161 Mannheim, Germany
Internet: http://www.zew.de
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22. BACKGROUND
THE GENDER EARNINGS GAP IS A PERSISTENT STYLIZED FACT
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Most economic studies focus on individual
characteristics or take a market-based
perspective to explaining the gender wage
gap (GWG)
In contrast, legislation in many countries
focuses on the firm as a central agent in
establishing gender equality (Card et al.,
2016):
• US: Equal Pay Act of 1963
• UK: Equality Act 2010 Regulations 2017
• GER: Transparency of Remuneration Act 2017
What are relevant firm policies to address
gender pay differentials?1,5
13,8
34,6
0 10 20 30 40
ROU
CRI
ITA
TUR
NOR
NZL
HUN
FRA
MEX
ESP
OECD
NLD
AUS
CHE
DEU
GBR
USA
CHL
JPN
EST
KOR
Gender Wage Gap (GWG) for selected
countries
Source: OECD (2019)
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METHODOLOGY
SELECTION ISSUE NR. 1 – BALANCING OF COVARIATES
Common Support: Ensure overlap of distribution of characteristics by excluding
tails of the propensity score distribution
unmatched matched
Variable Treated Control Treated Control
log(num. employees) 4.88 4.18*** 4.88 4.93
% high skilled empl. 0.76 0.74 0.76 0.76
% male empl. 0.56 0.64*** 0.56 0.59
flextime 0.60 0.56 0.60 0.61
parental leave 0.21 0.14** 0.21 0.18
reorganization 0.40 0.26** 0.40 0.40
log(working hours) 3.66 3.67* 3.66 3.66
log(wage rate)(a) 4.27 4.15*** 4.27 4.23
% female managers (a) 0.12 0.14 0.12 0.11
average age 41.49 42.33** 41.49 41.73
Notes: Mean characteristics of firms by treatment status for the trimmed sample. t-test for equality in means between the groups. ***
Mean difference significant at 1%, ** significant at 5%, * significant at 10%. Matching procedure includes additional covariates. Match on 2
nearest neighbors with replacement. (a) log(wage rate), % female managers and age structure excluded form the matching process.
Balancing of observable characteristics