This report explores international experience of staff involvement processes to improve employee engagement, service quality and resource use in health care services. It discusses the relationships between staff involvement, employee engagement and organisational performance, drawing on published literature yielded by brief online and journal searches of articles in English. It also draws on Pu...

We use survey data and Želd research to investigate the effects of employee involvement practices on outcomes for blue-collar workers in the auto-supply industry. We Žnd these practices raise wages by 3–5%. The causal mechanism linking involvement and wages appears to be most consistent with efŽciency-wage theories, and least consistent with compensating differences. We Žnd no evidence that emp...

Integrating three different explanations regarding the mixed effects of diversity, the current study used a sample of 297 large organizations to examine the joint effects of diversity, employee involvement, and decentralization on innovation. A significant three-way interaction showed that diversity and employee involvement jointly increase organizational innovation only when the organization a...

This article offers a correlation matrix of meta-analytic estimates between various employee job attitudes (i.e., Employee engagement, job satisfaction, job involvement, and organizational commitment) and indicators of employee effectiveness (i.e., Focal performance, contextual performance, turnover intention, and absenteeism). The meta-analytic correlations in the matrix are based on over 1100...

Using a unique cross-national survey of publicly traded firms in Indonesia, Korea and Thailand, we provide the first systematic cross-national evidence on the incidence, diffusion, nature, and scope of Joint Labor-Management Committees (JLMCs) and shed light on the potential role of employee stakeholders in corporate governance in Asia. We find insofar as publicly traded firms in these three co...

Background and Objectives: Balanced Scorecard is an increasingly popular tool for performance evaluation. Healthcare organizations have broadly adopted this method for implementing their strategic plans. There is, however, increasing concerns on barriers to balanced scorecard implementation. Built on the fundamental impacts of organizational culture on hospital performance, this study explored ...

This paper examines the institutional characteristics of UK Employee Share Ownership Plans (ESOPs) and considers the extent to which ESOPs extend employee participation and industrial democracy. It is suggested that ESOPs in themselves do not extend industrial democracy. Instead patterns of employee participation are substantially determined by the goals of those primarily responsible for estab...

Firms are continuously improving their human resource management (HRM) practices in order to achieve sustainable competitive advantage and increase their profitability. These practices include employee involvement, training, empowerment, compensation and rewards, etc. The purpose of this research is to examine the relationship between human resource practices and firm performance. Using compani...