Documents de treball producció científicaUniversitat Rovira i Virgili. Departament d'Economia

Workers cooperation within the firm: an analysis using small and medium size firms

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    Identificador:  PC:2147
    Autores:  Mañé Vernet, Ferran; Iranzo, Susana; Flores-Fillol, Ricardo
    Resumen:
    We investigate the determinants of teamwork and workers cooperation within the firm. Up to now the literature has almost exclusively focused on workers incentives as the main determinants for workers cooperation. We take a broader look at the firm's organizational design and analyze the impact that different aspects of it might have on cooperation. In particular, we consider the way in which the degree of decentralization of decisions and the use of complementary HRM practices (what we call the .rm.s vertical organizational design) can affect workers'collaboration with each other. We test the model's predictions on a unique dataset on Spanish small and medium size firms containing a rich set of variables that allows us to use sensible proxies for workers cooperation. We find that the decentralization of labor decisions (and to a less extent that of task planning) has a positive impact on workers cooperation. Likewise, cooperation is positively correlated to many of the HRM practices that seem to favor workers'interaction the most. We also confirm the previous finding that collaborative efforts respond positively to pay incentives, and particularly, to group or company incentives.
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    Editor: Universitat Rovira i Virgili. Departament d'Economia
    Fecha: 2010
    Identificador: http://hdl.handle.net/2072/179606
    Departamento/Instituto: Universitat Rovira i Virgili. Departament d'Economia
    Idioma: eng
    Autor: Mañé Vernet, Ferran, Iranzo, Susana, Flores-Fillol, Ricardo
    Relación: Documents de treball del Departament d'Economia;2010-36
    Fuente: RECERCAT (Dipòsit de la Recerca de Catalunya)
    Formato: 32 p.
  • Palabras clave:

    331 - Treball. Relacions laborals. Ocupació. Organització del treball
    Incentius laborals
    Treball en equip
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