Benefits offer no advantage on firm productivity?

Autor: Kuen-Hung Tsai, Jiann-Chyuan Wang
Rok vydání: 2005
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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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