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Auto worker creates stripe guns - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
Production The Worker The Audience Chapter Introduction Chapter Images Bibliography previous 1 2 3 4 next Auto worker creates stripe guns ca. 1936 De Soto Photographer unknown... View Details
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Products - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
The Message The Product The Production The Worker The Audience Bibliography previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 next Products... View Details
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The Production - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
Production Chapter Introduction Chapter Images The Worker The Audience Bibliography The Production: A Cooperative Enterprise Baker Library | Historical Collections | Site Credits | Digital Accessibility... View Details
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Introduction Chapter Images The Production The Worker The Audience Bibliography The Product: Consumer Relations Baker Library | Historical Collections | Site Credits | Digital Accessibility Contact Email:... View Details
- August, 2024
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Absenteeism, Productivity, and Relational Contracts Inside the Firm
By: Achyuta Adhvaryu, Jean-François Gauthier, Anant Nyshadham and Jorge Tamayo
We study relational contracts among managers using a unique dataset that tracks transfers of workers across teams in Indian ready-made garment factories. We focus on how relational contracts help managers cope with worker absenteeism shocks, which are frequent, often... View Details
Keywords: Implicit Contracts; Productivity; Misallocation; Absenteeism; Supervisors; Readymade Garments; Performance Productivity; Employees; Relationships; Fashion Industry; India
Adhvaryu, Achyuta, Jean-François Gauthier, Anant Nyshadham, and Jorge Tamayo. "Absenteeism, Productivity, and Relational Contracts Inside the Firm." Journal of the European Economic Association 22, no. 4 (August, 2024): 1628–1677.
- 2014
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Unequality: Who Gets What and Why It Matters
Who should get what, and what are the consequences? Economic inequality in the United States has been rising for decades, yet only recently have behavioral scientists explored two central questions surrounding the optimal level of inequality. First, what are the... View Details
Keywords: Inequality; Ethics; Productivity; Gambling; Equality and Inequality; Fairness; Income; Performance Productivity; United States
Norton, Michael I. "Unequality: Who Gets What and Why It Matters." Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences 1, no. 1 (2014): 151–155.
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Introduction - The Production - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
Production Chapter Introduction Chapter Images The Worker The Audience Bibliography The Production: A Cooperative Enterprise What the industrial worker wants is . . . a method... View Details
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Introduction - The Product - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
Introduction Chapter Images The Production The Worker The Audience Bibliography The Product: Consumer Relations The place of the photograph in advertising is unquestioned. It can accomplish things which no... View Details
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Competition and Social Identity in the Workplace: Evidence from a Chinese Textile Firm
By: Takao Kato and Pian Shu
We study the impact of social identity on worker competition by exploiting the well-documented social divide between urban resident workers and rural migrant workers in urban Chinese firms. We analyze data on weekly output, individual characteristics, and coworker... View Details
Keywords: Social Identity; Coworker Effect; Productivity; Relative Performance Incentive; Intergroup Competition; Competition; Groups and Teams; Performance Productivity; Identity
Kato, Takao, and Pian Shu. "Competition and Social Identity in the Workplace: Evidence from a Chinese Textile Firm." Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 131, part A (November 2016): 37–50.
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I have spent my career studying novel talent management practices and their effect on collaboration and performance. My core research focuses on two interrelated organizational trends that have become salient in the 21st century: workplace transparency (who gets to... View Details
Keywords: Privacy; Transparency; Productivity; Field Experiments; Communication; Design; Human Resources; Leadership; Management; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Performance; Groups and Teams; Networks; Behavior; Social and Collaborative Networks; Satisfaction; North America; Europe; Asia; China; Japan; Latin America
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Raw materials entering into the production of General Electric distribution transformers - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
Introduction Chapter Images The Production The Worker The Audience Bibliography previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 next Raw materials entering into the production of General Electric... View Details
- November 2012
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Teaming at GE Aviation
Describes the challenges and successes encountered by GE's Aviation business in implementing a teaming work structure and culture in plants across its supply chain. GE Aviation leadership had seen dramatic gains in productivity, quality, and worker satisfaction in... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Behavior; Aviation And Aerospace; Capacity Management; Competitiveness; Corporate Culture; Corporate Structure; Labor Relations; Manufacturing; Production Planning; General Electric; Teaming; Managing Change; Transformation; Labor Unions; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Organizational Structure; Performance Productivity; Leading Change; Management Style; Job Design and Levels; Aerospace Industry; Manufacturing Industry; United States
Khurana, Rakesh, Jeffrey Polzer, Willy Shih, and Eric Baldwin. "Teaming at GE Aviation." Harvard Business School Case 413-074, November 2012.
- 01 Nov 2022
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A Penny for Your Thoughts? For Big-Picture Ideas, the Right Pay Structure Matters
novel idea in the previous month. [div class=infogram-embed data-id=_/buhv4lJrYV50s7MdxGC9][/div] Workers with “variable pay” contracts—earning roughly the equivalent to hourly pay for workers in the US,... View Details
Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis
- January 2016
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Making Do with Less: Working Harder During Recessions
By: Edward P. Lazear, Kathryn L. Shaw and Christopher Stanton
Why did productivity rise during recent recessions? One possibility is that average worker quality increased. A second is that each incumbent worker produced more. The second effect is termed "making do with less." Using data from 2006 to 2010 on individual worker... View Details
Lazear, Edward P., Kathryn L. Shaw, and Christopher Stanton. "Making Do with Less: Working Harder During Recessions." Journal of Labor Economics 34, no. S1 (January 2016): S333–S360.
- 16 Nov 2011
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What Your Boss Needs to Know About Engagement
- 19 Aug 2021
- Op-Ed
Don't Ignore Your Employees' Misery—TAKE Control
employees’ dismay. If nothing else, the pandemic has taught us that one-size-fits-all approaches can be extremely counterproductive. In fact, numerous surveys and news articles suggest that employees have been just as productive working... View Details
Keywords: by Hise O. Gibson and MaShon Wilson
- 29 Mar 2018
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Prithwiraj Choudhury, Harvard Business School
- 06 Jun 2021
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Did You Know? Rainy Days Are Great For Your Productivity, Says Study
- October 2015
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The Value of Bosses
By: Edward P. Lazear, Kathryn L. Shaw and Christopher Stanton
How and by how much do supervisors enhance worker productivity? Using a company-based data set on the productivity of technology-based services workers, supervisor effects are estimated and found to be large. Replacing a boss who is in the lower 10% of boss quality... View Details
Lazear, Edward P., Kathryn L. Shaw, and Christopher Stanton. "The Value of Bosses." Journal of Labor Economics 33, no. 4 (October 2015): 823–861.