Benefits offer no advantage on firm productivity?
Autor: | Kuen-Hung Tsai, Jiann-Chyuan Wang |
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Rok vydání: | 2005 |
Předmět: |
Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
Firm offer Employee benefits media_common.quotation_subject Competitive advantage Value (economics) Production (economics) Quality (business) Business Marketing Function (engineering) Productivity Applied Psychology Industrial organization media_common |
Zdroj: | Personnel Review. 34:393-405 |
ISSN: | 0048-3486 |
DOI: | 10.1108/00483480510599743 |
Popis: | Purpose – To examine the moderating effect of employee benefits on the relationship between labor input and firm output.Design/methodology/approach – Three high‐tech sectors, covering different time periods, are taken as the analytical samples. An extended Cobb‐Douglas production function is adopted to examine the research hypotheses.Findings – Examinations reveal that employee benefits have a moderating effect on firm productivity, irrespective of industry or firm size. Furthermore, the effect size is greater in small to medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs) than in large firms.Research limitations/implications – Using benefits to achieve competitive advantage for SMEs seems to be more important than for large firms. However, this examination concentrates on the electronics industry only.Practical implications – Benefits can help a firm achieve competitive advantage through better quality of labor.Originality/value – This study makes an interesting contribution to the understanding of the relationship between ... |
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