The same yet different
Subtitle: worker reports on labour practices and outcomes in a single firm across countries
By: Richard B. Freeman, Douglas Kruse, Joseph Blasi.
Contributors: Kruse, Douglas.; Blasi, Joseph R.; National Bureau of Economic Research.
Series: NBER working paper series -- no. 13233.; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research) -- working paper no. 13233.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 31
Subjects: Labor policy; Labor productivity -- Mathematical models; Employees -- Attitudes -- Mathematical models
Description: This paper examines cross-country differences in labour policies and practices and employee performance and attitudes toward work from a sample of nearly 30,000 employees in a large multinational manufacturing firm. The analysis shows: 1) large establishment and country differences in work practices, performance, and attitudes toward work across countries; 2) qualitatively similar responses of workers to work practices across countries; 3) a strong link between the establishment average of employee reports on the quality of labour-management relations and establishment average measures of employee performance 4) a positive relation between average employee performance and average employee-management relations at the country level, but no relation between country level performance in the firm and measures of the extent of national labour regulations or practices.
Notes: "July 2007"

Includes bibliographical references (p. 30-31).

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