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Complementarity of Shared Compensation and Decision-Making Systems Evidence from the American Labor Market

Year: 2008

Type: book-chapter

Abstract: This chapter examines the shared compensation and decision making practices with evidence from the American labor market using the nationally representative 1994–1995 Freeman-Rogers Workplace Representation and Participation Survey (WRPS) for the United States and the 2003 California Establishment Survey (CES). The WRPS focuses on employee involvement and work organization but also asks about the mode of compensation so that we can link compensation systems and employee decision making. The CES surveys businesses on compensation and decision-making practices, and has productivity-related outcomes that allow examination of the relation between firm performance and compensation and decision-making systems. Shared compensation is stated to be positively associated with shared decision making, and that combining shared compensation systems and employee involvement has greater impacts on outcomes than the systems separately.

Source: University of Chicago Press eBooks

DOI: 10.3386/w14272

Authors: Arindrajit Dube, Richard Freeman

Institutions: Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, University of California, Berkeley, National Bureau of Economic Research

Language: English

Topic: Labor Movements and Unions

Subfield: Public Administration

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Decent work and economic growth

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W1555889868

FWCI: 4.707

Cites: 20

Cited by: 44

Related to: 10