A radical redesign of the UK benefits system for gig economy workers could draw inspiration from a French scheme that covers art industry workers writes Guillaume Wilemme and Piotr Denderski of the University of Leicester School of Business and Helene Benghalem of Lausanne University. From independent contracting and self-employment to on-call and temporary contracts, non-standard […]
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Collective performance-related pay systems may have more effect on performance than individualized performance-related pay systems
Stephen Wood, Professor of Management, University of Leicester School of Business. A systematic review conducted in the University of Leicester School of Business revealed that collective performance-related pay systems such as profit-sharing and team bonuses have a bigger impact on organizational performance than their individual counterparts such as piece rate and sales bonuses. Systems which […]
Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion Representations in Marketing Require more Attention to Context.
Brands can play an important role in fostering inclusion in our increasingly diverse societies. 38% of the respondents to a recent survey conducted by Adobe, said that they are more likely to purchase products and services from brands that show diversity in their advertisements.
The Appeal of Hybrid Working
Homeworking’s contradictory nature means in its pure form it can never be a perfect answer, but this means that hybrid working has the potential to be an alternative imperfectly perfect working arrangement.
Productive Alternatives to Boris Johnson’s Cheesy Vision of Homeworking
Hybrid working solves the trade-off of home versus office working, with benefits for both employees and employers, writes ULSB’s Professor Stephen Wood.
Sustainability in the Workplace is About More than the Environment
Organisations need to think about sustainability when it comes to employees, not just the environment, Writes Stephen Wood Sustainable organizations may be narrowly defined as those with a concern for the environment in a way that leads them to what is called Green Human Resource Management. In this, all aspects of personnel management are geared […]
First Findings of the ‘Work-Life Balance and the Pandemic’ Study Amongst University Employees
“Well-being amongst university employees fell between May and September 2020, and increased loneliness and an inability to detach from work accounted for this.” This is a key result from Professor Wood’s study of well-being amongst university employees, academics and non-academics, working at home during the pandemic. Employees completed a diary study over a four-week periods, […]
Why Academics Need to Engage in Public and Political Discourse
People often struggle to distinguish between the advice of a charlatan and an expert, meaning that academic input into public discussions of important issues such as COVID-19 is vital, writes Aris Boukouras The developments of the past decade (the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, the 2016 presidential elections in US, the Brexit […]
Differentiating High-Involvement Management from High-Performance Work Systems: Why it Matters for UK Productivity
Professor Stephen Wood argues that focusing on management practices that involve workers in workplace decisions could be the answer to the UK’s productivity crisis. Increasing attention is being given to better management as part of the solution to Britain’s languishing productivity problem. Successive governments have attempted to increase productivity through programmes designed […]
How to think about Social Distancing and Containment using Network Formation Games
An unreliable test and tracing system risks becoming counter-productive once we consider how it may affect people’s behaviour, writes Dr. Fabrizio Adriani When pandemics cannot be addressed by pharmaceutical solutions, policy makers need to find viable alternatives to indiscriminate lockdowns, which carry huge human and economic costs. At the time of writing, the most promising […]
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