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- Module Note
Employee and Labour Welfare at the Tata Group Companies
By: Shashank Shah
Keywords:
Labor And Management Relations;
Human Resource Management;
Tata Motors;
Employee Engagement;
India
Shah, Shashank. "Employee and Labour Welfare at the Tata Group Companies." 2010.
- Research Summary
Relational Motivation & Need Expectations
My current research in this area explores the ways in which the nature of relational interactions at work facilitate, or supress, important individual and organizational outcomes such as motivation, engagement and personal well-being. Much of my work in this...
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- December 2014 (Revised April 2016)
- Module Note
Responsibilities to Employees
By: Nien-he Hsieh
The note provides a framework to conceptualize managers' responsibilities to employees in relation to economic, legal and ethical considerations. The note frames the central ethical challenge for managers as exercising power in a fair manner. The fair exercise of power...
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Keywords:
Leadership & Corporate Accountability;
Legal Aspects Of Business;
Responsibility;
Ethics;
Fairness;
Employees;
Decision Making;
Leadership;
Jobs and Positions;
Labor;
Law
Hsieh, Nien-he. "Responsibilities to Employees." Harvard Business School Module Note 315-067, December 2014. (Revised April 2016.)
- 20 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Using Investor Relations Proactively
strong investor relations (IR) departments, according to HBS professor Gregory S. Miller. Two cases he recently coauthored describe how these different firms in the oil and gas industry—controversial of late for its mile-high profits—have...
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- Article
Relational Reconciliation: Socializing Others Across Demographic Differences
By: Lakshmi Ramarajan and Erin M. Reid
In demographically diverse organizations, employees charged with socializing others—
socialization agents—must navigate a deep tension between the organization’s needs to
integrate individuals into a collective and individuals’ needs for recognition of their
unique...
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Ramarajan, Lakshmi, and Erin M. Reid. "Relational Reconciliation: Socializing Others Across Demographic Differences." Academy of Management Journal 63, no. 2 (April 2020): 356–385.
- February 2023 (Revised February 2024)
- Module Note
LCA Module Overview: Employees
By: Nien-hê Hsieh
This note provides an overview of key questions, themes, and concepts to be covered in the module and provides a brief description of each case and how it relates to these questions, themes, and concepts.
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Hsieh, Nien-hê. "LCA Module Overview: Employees." Harvard Business School Module Note 323-072, February 2023. (Revised February 2024.)
- 2017
- Working Paper
Rethinking Measurement of Pay Disparity and its Relation to Firm Performance
By: Ethan Rouen
I develop measures of firm-level pay disparity and examine their relation to firm accounting performance. Using comprehensive compensation data for a large sample of firms, I find no statistically significant relation between the ratio of CEO-to-mean employee...
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Keywords:
Pay Disparity;
Pay Ratio;
CEO Pay Ratio;
Income Inequality;
Executive Compensation;
Wages;
Equality and Inequality;
Business Ventures;
Performance
Rouen, Ethan. "Rethinking Measurement of Pay Disparity and its Relation to Firm Performance." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 18-007, July 2017.
- January 2020
- Article
Rethinking Measurement of Pay Disparity and Its Relation to Firm Performance
By: Ethan Rouen
I develop measures of firm-level pay disparity and examine their relation to firm performance. Using comprehensive compensation data for a large sample of firms, I find no statistically significant relation between the ratio of CEO-to-mean employee compensation and...
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Keywords:
Pay Disparity;
Pay Ratio;
CEO Pay Ratio;
Income Inequality;
Executive Compensation;
Employees;
Wages;
Equality and Inequality;
Business Ventures;
Performance
Rouen, Ethan. "Rethinking Measurement of Pay Disparity and Its Relation to Firm Performance." Accounting Review 95, no. 1 (January 2020): 343–378.
- 13 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees
as their mental well-being—a forthcoming article in American Psychologist examines current organizational psychology research to help business leaders manage COVID-related fallout in the workplace and develop solutions to ease the stress many View Details
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 29 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Do Employees Work Harder for Higher Pay?
brought the most provocative results. Its members were initially offered $3 per hour, but then received a surprise $1 increase to match the higher-pay group. The pay increase was not related to performance. It was offered immediately...
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by Chuck Leddy & Harvard Gazette
- Forthcoming
- Article
Absenteeism, Productivity, and Relational Contracts Inside the Firm
By: Achyuta Adhvaryu, Jean-François Gauthier, Anant Nyshadham and Jorge Tamayo
We study relational contracts among managers using a unique dataset that tracks transfers of workers across teams in Indian ready-made garment factories. We focus on how relational contracts help managers cope with worker absenteeism shocks, which are frequent, often...
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Keywords:
Implicit Contracts;
Productivity;
Misallocation;
Absenteeism;
Supervisors;
Readymade Garments;
Performance Productivity;
Employees;
Relationships;
Fashion Industry;
India
Adhvaryu, Achyuta, Jean-François Gauthier, Anant Nyshadham, and Jorge Tamayo. "Absenteeism, Productivity, and Relational Contracts Inside the Firm." Journal of the European Economic Association (forthcoming).
- 17 Feb 2022
- Book
When Employees Feel a Sense of Purpose, Companies Succeed
worth living, while others took the opportunity to divulge very personal information. In one case, a female employee shocked her colleagues by relating that she had breast cancer and had been having...
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by Ranjay Gulati
- 17 Jul 2023
- Research & Ideas
Money Isn’t Everything: The Dos and Don’ts of Motivating Employees
Noncents.” It will be a practical examination of the way money—and nonmonetary rewards—trickle down to create that special magic that makes employees believe in the mission and work harder to further its success. Getting these incentive...
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by Avery Forman
- 05 Feb 2018
- What Do You Think?
Should Companies Disclose Employee Compensation?
narrow target pay range for every position in the company can be made transparent without revealing the exact pay for any person. This can help employees in their career planning and ambitions." Tahoegrrl reminded us: "There are...
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- 16 Nov 2021
- HBS Case
How a Company Made Employees So Miserable, They Killed Themselves
year, a 49-year-old technician at the same company stabbed himself in front of his colleagues after learning he had been demoted. Between 2006 and 2009, at least 19 France Télécom employees took their own lives, 12 others attempted...
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by Michael Blanding
- 05 Jul 2023
- What Do You Think?
How Are Middle Managers Falling Down Most Often on Employee Inclusion?
(iStockphoto/AzmanL) Search “inclusion” on Amazon and the majority of book entries that come up are for children. Is that an indicator of the current state of management art on the subject? Fortunately, there is a growing body of research on the View Details
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by James Heskett
- 30 Sep 2019
- Book
6 Steps to Building a Better Workplace for Black Employees
Gerdeman is senior writer at Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. [Image: PeopleImages] Related Reading Pro Basketball Coaches Display Racial Bias When Selecting Lineups Diversity Boosts Profits in Venture Capital Firms We May Have...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 29 Jul 2019
- Research & Ideas
How Companies Benefit When Employees Work Remotely
Companies that let their workers decide where and when to do their jobs—whether in another city or in the middle of the night—increase employee productivity, reduce turnover, and lower organizational costs, new research suggests....
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by Kristen Senz
- 06 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
After Germanwings, More Attention Needed on Employee Mental Health
the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index, absenteeism from workers diagnosed with depression costs US workplaces an estimated $23 billion annually in lost productivity. That number, however, only calculates losses based on days employees...
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- 18 Aug 2022
- Op-Ed
Your Best Employees Are Burning Out: A Framework for Retaining Talent
Leaders? Focus on Mindset, Skills, Knowledge The Growth Engine Too Many Companies Overlook: Employees Related reading from the Working Knowledge Archives Understaffed and Overworked: What Now? Feedback or...
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by Hise Gibson and MaShon Wilson