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Antti Kauhanen - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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innovative work practices and sickness absence what does a nationally representative Employee Survey tell
Industrial and Corporate Change, 2012Co-Authors: Petri Bockerman, Edvard Johansson, Antti KauhanenAbstract:This article examines the effect of innovative work practices on the prevalence of sickness absence and accidents at work. We focus on the "bundles" of workplace innovations that consist of self-managed teams, information sharing, employer-provided training, and incentive pay. We use nationally representative individual-level data from the Finnish Quality of Work Life Survey from 2008. The findings point to the conclusion that high-performance workplace system has little impact on the overall health of Employees. Copyright 2012 The Author 2011. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Associazione ICC. All rights reserved., Oxford University Press.
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the incidence of high performance work systems evidence from a nationally representative Employee Survey
Economic & Industrial Democracy, 2009Co-Authors: Antti KauhanenAbstract:This article uses representative Employee Survey data for Finland from 2003 to study the incidence of adaptive teams, incentive pay and employer-provided training. A combination of these practices would be termed a high-performance work system (HPWS). Influential theories suggest that we should view these practices as `bundled' together. However, these `bundles' are quite rare and thus HPWS is a rare phenomenon. The article finds that the probability of participation in HPWS is higher for (1) Employees with higher socioeconomic status, (2) Employees using communication technology for internal communication in the workplace, (3) younger Employees, (4) full-time and permanent Employees, (5) Employees in larger firms and (6) Employees in foreign-owned firms.
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innovative work practices and sickness absence what does a nationally representative Employee Survey tell
MPRA Paper, 2009Co-Authors: Petri Bockerman, Edvard Johansson, Antti KauhanenAbstract: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 two-equation 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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workplace innovations and Employee outcomes evidence from a representative Employee Survey
2005Co-Authors: Panu Kalmi, Antti KauhanenAbstract:In the recent literature on workplace innovations, two competing views stand out: in the high-performance work system (HPWS) literature it is argued that workplace innovations have positive outcomes for Employees in the form of increased discretion, improved job security, and enhanced job satisfaction. In turn, the critics of HPWS view argue that workplace innovations lead to increased job intensity and mental strain, and compromise job security. We address these issues by using a representative data set on individual Employees from Finland. On balance our results are more supportive of the HPWS view. The results also show that there are differences between individual practices. Information sharing has consistently positive effects on Employees, while the impacts of training and self-managed teams are more varied. Incentive pay has a positive association only with wages.
Dirk-matthias Rose - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Smoking prevalence in the area of responsibility of the German Ministry of Defense - results of the Employee Survey in the context of occupational health management.
Military Medical Research, 2020Co-Authors: Stefan Sammito, Annika Claus, Dirk-matthias RoseAbstract:Tobacco use, correlated with reduced physical fitness, is one of the leading causes of avoidable death worldwide. It increases the risk of dementia and can shorten the lifespan by 10 years. For the German Armed Forces (Bundeswehr), figures on smoking behavior have not been comprehensively captured. This study analyzes current data in a large sample from this population. Based on an Employee Survey as part of the Occupational Health Management System, data on smoking behavior from 13,326 participants were analyzed in relation to age, gender, professional status, education level and membership in military operational units versus other agencies. Smoking behavior varied significantly (P older), gender, professional status, military agency membership status, and education level (the lower the education level, the higher the smoking rates). With the exception of the downward trend in smoking behavior with increasing age among civilian Employees, these results were all significant (P
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smoking prevalence in the area of responsibility of the german ministry of defense results of the Employee Survey in the context of occupational health management
Military Medical Research, 2020Co-Authors: Stefan Sammito, Annika Claus, Dirk-matthias RoseAbstract:Tobacco use, correlated with reduced physical fitness, is one of the leading causes of avoidable death worldwide. It increases the risk of dementia and can shorten the lifespan by 10 years. For the German Armed Forces (Bundeswehr), figures on smoking behavior have not been comprehensively captured. This study analyzes current data in a large sample from this population. Based on an Employee Survey as part of the Occupational Health Management System, data on smoking behavior from 13,326 participants were analyzed in relation to age, gender, professional status, education level and membership in military operational units versus other agencies. Smoking behavior varied significantly (P older), gender, professional status, military agency membership status, and education level (the lower the education level, the higher the smoking rates). With the exception of the downward trend in smoking behavior with increasing age among civilian Employees, these results were all significant (P < 0.005). This data analysis shows that smoking prevalence among personnel in the area of responsibility of the Federal Ministry of Defense is comparable to the current data from corresponding Surveys of the German population. Depending on gender, they generally show values that are slightly above those of the German population. The well-known trend in the general population of decreasing smoking prevalence with increasing age is also seen in this analysis. However, there are considerable differences in the smoking prevalence among individual subgroups (professional status, agency, gender, education level). The data show that particular young soldiers in the armed forces should be the target group for further preventive measures.
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Smoking prevalence in the area of responsibility of the German Ministry of Defense — results of the Employee Survey in the context of occupational health management
Military Medical Research, 2020Co-Authors: Stefan Sammito, Annika Claus, Dirk-matthias RoseAbstract:Background Tobacco use, correlated with reduced physical fitness, is one of the leading causes of avoidable death worldwide. It increases the risk of dementia and can shorten the lifespan by 10 years. For the German Armed Forces (Bundeswehr), figures on smoking behavior have not been comprehensively captured. This study analyzes current data in a large sample from this population. Methods Based on an Employee Survey as part of the Occupational Health Management System, data on smoking behavior from 13,326 participants were analyzed in relation to age, gender, professional status, education level and membership in military operational units versus other agencies. Results Smoking behavior varied significantly ( P < 0.001) by age group (younger > older), gender, professional status, military agency membership status, and education level (the lower the education level, the higher the smoking rates). With the exception of the downward trend in smoking behavior with increasing age among civilian Employees, these results were all significant ( P < 0.005). Conclusions This data analysis shows that smoking prevalence among personnel in the area of responsibility of the Federal Ministry of Defense is comparable to the current data from corresponding Surveys of the German population. Depending on gender, they generally show values that are slightly above those of the German population. The well-known trend in the general population of decreasing smoking prevalence with increasing age is also seen in this analysis. However, there are considerable differences in the smoking prevalence among individual subgroups (professional status, agency, gender, education level). The data show that particular young soldiers in the armed forces should be the target group for further preventive measures.
Anil Verma - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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globalization human resource practices and innovation recent evidence from the canadian workplace and Employee Survey
Industrial Relations, 2007Co-Authors: Scott Walsworth, Anil VermaAbstract:This study examines the triangular relationship that connects the degree to which a workplace is internationally engaged, the extent to which it innovates, and the human resource practices it adopts. By pooling various years of data from the Canadian Workplace and Employee Survey, a nationally representative data set, we found that certain practices, such as variable pay and autonomy training, are more likely to be used in international workplaces. We subsequently found that for an international workplace, the use of variable pay contributes very little to workplace innovation while autonomy training has a positive relationship with innovation.
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Union wage premium
Perspectives on Labour and Income, 2002Co-Authors: Tony Fang, Anil VermaAbstract:How much more do unionized workers earn than non-unionized workers?\nSince the 1970s, the wage gap has varied between 10 and 25% in Canada\n(Renaud 1997) and between 21 and 32% in the U.S. (Freeman and Medoff\n1984). However, since that time, wage differentials may have shifted\nin light of external pressures such as globalization, technological\nadvancement, and demographic changes. Many changes have occurred\nin workplace practices, such as flexibility, Employee involvement,\nand the adoption of technology. Since unionized and non-unionized\nworkplaces are free to adopt innovations from each other, how they\nwere implemented may also have contributed to shifts in wage differentials.\nSome components of wage differences between the two groups of workers\nmay persist because of union policies—for example, union insistence\non standard wages with no variable pay component or seniority rules.\nBut other differences may narrow or widen as union and non-union\nworkplaces 'compete' with each other (or with a common foreign competitor)\nby adopting workplace innovations to enhance quality, productivity,\nsafety, or other outcomes of interest.This article investigates differences\nbetween union and non-union wages using data from the first Workplace\nand Employee Survey (WES). When compared with historical differences\nin wages, the results provide a dynamic view of wage differences\nbetween the two groups of workers.
Sanja Pekovic - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Environmental standards and labor productivity: Understanding the mechanisms that sustain sustainability
Journal of Organizational Behavior, 2013Co-Authors: Magali A Delmas, Sanja PekovicAbstract:In the last decade, a rising number of firms have adopted voluntary international environmental management and product standards, such as the international ISO 14001 management standard or organic certification. Although emerging research analyzes the impact of these standards on environmental and financial performance, there is to our knowledge no empirical research on how they affect the productivity of Employees. In this paper, we investigate the direct relationship between environmental standards and labor productivity, as well as two mediating mechanisms through which environmental standards influence labor productivity: Employee training and enhanced interpersonal contacts within the firm. Our empirical results, based on a French employer–Employee Survey from 5220 firms, reveal that firms that have adopted environmental standards enjoy a one standard deviation higher labor productivity than firms that have not adopted such standards.
Stefan Sammito - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Smoking prevalence in the area of responsibility of the German Ministry of Defense - results of the Employee Survey in the context of occupational health management.
Military Medical Research, 2020Co-Authors: Stefan Sammito, Annika Claus, Dirk-matthias RoseAbstract:Tobacco use, correlated with reduced physical fitness, is one of the leading causes of avoidable death worldwide. It increases the risk of dementia and can shorten the lifespan by 10 years. For the German Armed Forces (Bundeswehr), figures on smoking behavior have not been comprehensively captured. This study analyzes current data in a large sample from this population. Based on an Employee Survey as part of the Occupational Health Management System, data on smoking behavior from 13,326 participants were analyzed in relation to age, gender, professional status, education level and membership in military operational units versus other agencies. Smoking behavior varied significantly (P older), gender, professional status, military agency membership status, and education level (the lower the education level, the higher the smoking rates). With the exception of the downward trend in smoking behavior with increasing age among civilian Employees, these results were all significant (P
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smoking prevalence in the area of responsibility of the german ministry of defense results of the Employee Survey in the context of occupational health management
Military Medical Research, 2020Co-Authors: Stefan Sammito, Annika Claus, Dirk-matthias RoseAbstract:Tobacco use, correlated with reduced physical fitness, is one of the leading causes of avoidable death worldwide. It increases the risk of dementia and can shorten the lifespan by 10 years. For the German Armed Forces (Bundeswehr), figures on smoking behavior have not been comprehensively captured. This study analyzes current data in a large sample from this population. Based on an Employee Survey as part of the Occupational Health Management System, data on smoking behavior from 13,326 participants were analyzed in relation to age, gender, professional status, education level and membership in military operational units versus other agencies. Smoking behavior varied significantly (P older), gender, professional status, military agency membership status, and education level (the lower the education level, the higher the smoking rates). With the exception of the downward trend in smoking behavior with increasing age among civilian Employees, these results were all significant (P < 0.005). This data analysis shows that smoking prevalence among personnel in the area of responsibility of the Federal Ministry of Defense is comparable to the current data from corresponding Surveys of the German population. Depending on gender, they generally show values that are slightly above those of the German population. The well-known trend in the general population of decreasing smoking prevalence with increasing age is also seen in this analysis. However, there are considerable differences in the smoking prevalence among individual subgroups (professional status, agency, gender, education level). The data show that particular young soldiers in the armed forces should be the target group for further preventive measures.
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Smoking prevalence in the area of responsibility of the German Ministry of Defense — results of the Employee Survey in the context of occupational health management
Military Medical Research, 2020Co-Authors: Stefan Sammito, Annika Claus, Dirk-matthias RoseAbstract:Background Tobacco use, correlated with reduced physical fitness, is one of the leading causes of avoidable death worldwide. It increases the risk of dementia and can shorten the lifespan by 10 years. For the German Armed Forces (Bundeswehr), figures on smoking behavior have not been comprehensively captured. This study analyzes current data in a large sample from this population. Methods Based on an Employee Survey as part of the Occupational Health Management System, data on smoking behavior from 13,326 participants were analyzed in relation to age, gender, professional status, education level and membership in military operational units versus other agencies. Results Smoking behavior varied significantly ( P < 0.001) by age group (younger > older), gender, professional status, military agency membership status, and education level (the lower the education level, the higher the smoking rates). With the exception of the downward trend in smoking behavior with increasing age among civilian Employees, these results were all significant ( P < 0.005). Conclusions This data analysis shows that smoking prevalence among personnel in the area of responsibility of the Federal Ministry of Defense is comparable to the current data from corresponding Surveys of the German population. Depending on gender, they generally show values that are slightly above those of the German population. The well-known trend in the general population of decreasing smoking prevalence with increasing age is also seen in this analysis. However, there are considerable differences in the smoking prevalence among individual subgroups (professional status, agency, gender, education level). The data show that particular young soldiers in the armed forces should be the target group for further preventive measures.
