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In brief: Men in black: the impact of new contracts on football referees' performance
Full text linkIn the 2001/02 English football season, referees of Premier League matches were paid a salary for the first time. Alex Bryson and colleagues investigate the impact on their performance.salary contracts, performance relate pay
Wellbeing in the workplace: the impact of modern management
Full text linkHow people feel about their jobs is an important part of their overall happiness yet until now, few studies have explored the links between employees' wellbeing and their working environment. Alex Bryson and colleagues analyse data from Finland to assess the impact of modern management practices on wellbeing in the workplace.wellbeing, management practices
Team performance and the optimal spread of talent
Full text linkAlex Bryson and colleagues use US baseball data to investigate whether performance suffers if there is too wide a gap between the skills of a team's stars and the rest.skill dispersion, baseball, firm performance
Assimilation in Multilingual Cities
Full text linkUsing the Public Use Microdata Files of the 2001 and 2006 Canadian Censuses, we study the determinants of the assimilation of language minorities into the city majority language. We show that official minority members (i.e. francophones in English-speaking cities and anglophones in French-speaking cities) assimilate less than the "allophones" (the individuals with a mother tongue other than English or French), and that immigrants generally assimilate less than natives. In addition, the language composition of cities is shown to be an important determinant of assimilation both for allophones and for official minorities. Finally, we show that assimilation into French in French-majority cities is lower than assimilation into English in English-majority cities even when controlling for the language composition of the cities and including a rich set of language dummmies.immigration, assimilation, language policies, minorities
Bryson_et_al_online_suppl – Supplemental material for Gender differences in the union wage premium? A comparative case study
No full textSupplemental material, Bryson_et_al_online_suppl for Gender differences in the union wage premium? A comparative case study by Alex Bryson, Harald Dale-Olsen and Kristine Nergaard in European Journal of Industrial Relations</p
Bryson_et_al_online_supp – Supplemental material for Perceptions of non-pecuniary job quality using linked employer–employee data
No full textSupplemental material, Bryson_et_al_online_supp for Perceptions of non-pecuniary job quality using linked employer–employee data by Alex Bryson, Christine Erhel and Zinaida Salibekyan in European Journal of Industrial Relations</p
Unions and Procedural Justice: An Alternative to the Common Rule
Full text linkCan unions substitute a procedural justice role for their traditional reliance on establishing a¿common rule¿? The decline of ¿bureaucratic¿ models of employee management and the riseof performance pay and performance management conflicts with the common rule asmanagement seek to tie rewards more closely to individual and organisational performance.CEP studies of performance pay in the British public services illustrate the potential for aprocedural justice role to ensure that such pay systems are operated fairly, otherwise they riskdemotivating staff. Evidence is presented to show that employees regard unions as effectivevehicles for procedural justice. In this way, management can achieve better operation of theirincentive schemes, and employees may experience less unfairness and poisoned workrelations.performance-related pay, public services, procedural justice, management
Improving Access to Psychological Therapy: Initial Evaluation of the Two Demonstration Sites
Full text linkThe Government's Improving Access to Psychological Therapy (IAPT) programme aims to implement NICE Guidance for people with depression and anxiety disorders. In the first phase of the programme, two demonstration sites were established in Doncaster and Newham with funding to provide increased availability of cognitive-behaviour therapy-based (CBT) services to those in the community who need them. The services opened in late summer 2006. This paper documents the achievements of the sites up to September 2007 (roughly their first year of operation) and makes recommendations for the future roll out of IAPT services.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, CBT, Psychological therapy, Evaluation, Cost benefit analysis, IAPT
Union Organization in Great Britain
Full text linkUnion membership and density in Britain has experienced substantial decline since 1979. The fall in private sector membership and density has been much greater than in the public sector. The size of the union sector, measured by employer recognition, has shrunk. Membership decline has been accompanied by financial decline. Much of the decline occurred before 1997, under Conservative governments. Since 1997 and the return of a Labour government, the position has in some respects stabilized. Currently, unions have a substantially reduced economic impact, but a continued, if limited, role in workplace communication and grievance handling, often as part of a voice regime including non union elements.British trade unions, union structure, union membership
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