{"title":"Performance pay, working hours, and health-related absenteeism","authors":"Jed DeVaro","doi":"10.1111/irel.12308","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/irel.12308","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Analysis of broad, U.K. worker-establishment matched panel data from 2004 to 2011 reveals that working hours increase with the fraction of an establishment's workers receiving performance-based pay, if the cutoff for “long weekly hours” is from 35 to 39, but not beyond a sharp discontinuity at 40. Long hours are found to be unrelated to various workplace health problems but positively related to health-related absenteeism. Combined with complementary research on hours and productivity, the results suggest that the well-known productivity enhancements from performance pay are dampened by exhaustion-induced absenteeism stemming from additional working hours and higher per-hour work intensity.</p>","PeriodicalId":47700,"journal":{"name":"Industrial Relations","volume":"61 4","pages":"327-352"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2022-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91857794","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Frames of reference in managing employment from the perspective of economics of conventions","authors":"Julia Brandl","doi":"10.1111/irel.12305","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/irel.12305","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In their contribution to this symposium, John W. Budd, Dionne Pohler, and Wei Huang provided directions for understanding how conflicts and human resource (HR) practices are influenced by framing processes. The current literature on frames in the field of human resources and industrial relations tends to view individual actors as representatives of theories on employment relationship, and it focuses on the formal side of HR practices. These features limit scholars’ scope and ability to address the agency of the actors involved in framing processes, particularly employees. Therefore, this article develops an analytical perspective based on the economics of conventions to help realize the promise of Budd, Pohler, and Huang's work for a deeper understanding of the co-construction of frames and changes in HR practices in work organizations.</p>","PeriodicalId":47700,"journal":{"name":"Industrial Relations","volume":"61 3","pages":"290-302"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2022-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/irel.12305","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91570194","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Implications of frames of reference for strategic human resource management research: Opportunities and challenges","authors":"Kaifeng Jiang, Wei Shi, Xin Wen","doi":"10.1111/irel.12304","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/irel.12304","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Budd, Pohler, and Huang's (<i>Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society</i> 2022) proposed a theory of (mis)matched frames of reference to explain how managers’ and employees’ frames of reference regarding employment relationships may influence the use of human resource (HR) practices and help to explain the HR outcomes and conflicts observed in practice. We concur with Budd et al. that frames of reference provide a valuable and unique approach to studying employment relations and HR systems but have not received much attention. Therefore, we aim to extend their theory of (mis)matched frames of reference to strategic human resource management (HRM) research. We begin this commentary with a summary of their theoretical framework. We then introduce the background of strategic HRM and propose opportunities of applying frames of reference to advance strategic HRM research. Moreover, we discuss challenges of and considerations for using their framework in strategic HRM research.</p>","PeriodicalId":47700,"journal":{"name":"Industrial Relations","volume":"61 3","pages":"303-313"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2022-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91793008","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Trade Union Legitimacy and Legitimation Politics in Australia and New Zealand","authors":"","doi":"10.1111/irel.12303","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/irel.12303","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <p><b>The following article for this Special Issue was published in an earlier Issue</b>\u0000 </p>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Wright, Chris F. and McLaughlin, Colm. 2021. Trade Union Legitimacy and Legitimation Politics in Australia and New Zealand. <i>Industrial Relations</i> 60(3): 338–369.</p>\u0000 \u0000 <p>\u0000 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/irel.12285\u0000 </p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":47700,"journal":{"name":"Industrial Relations","volume":"61 1","pages":"90"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2022-02-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/irel.12303","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134802736","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Martin B. Carstensen, Christian Lyhne Ibsen, Vivien A. Schmidt
{"title":"Ideas and power in employment relations studies","authors":"Martin B. Carstensen, Christian Lyhne Ibsen, Vivien A. Schmidt","doi":"10.1111/irel.12302","DOIUrl":"10.1111/irel.12302","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Motivated by the efforts to understand shifting dynamics of change and stability in employment relations—not least ones brought on by a decade of crisis in what was a neoliberal consensus—scholars increasingly focus on the role of ideas, discourses, and identities. This paper argues for the potential of continuing down this path of employing ideational explanations in employment relations. First, it highlights four key weaknesses of employing more pure materialist–institutionalist approaches that have traditionally dominated employment relations scholarship. Second, it argues that to recognize and build on existing efforts to bring in ideas to employment relations, it is useful to place these on the macro-, meso-, and micro levels. Third, to further advance an ideational perspective on employment relations, it proposes to place more centrally the concept of ideational power. Fourth, it presents key insights from the papers that make up the Special Issue and fleshes out how the individual papers of the Special Issue contribute to this agenda.</p>","PeriodicalId":47700,"journal":{"name":"Industrial Relations","volume":"61 1","pages":"3-21"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2022-02-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/irel.12302","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116619845","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Performance pay and alcohol use in Germany","authors":"Mehrzad B. Baktash, John S. Heywood, Uwe Jirjahn","doi":"10.1111/irel.12301","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/irel.12301","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Previous studies show that performance pay can benefit firms and workers by increasing productivity and wages. Yet, performance pay can also have unintended consequences for worker health. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we examine the hypothesis that alcohol use as “self-medication” is a natural response to the stress and uncertainty associated with performance pay. We find that the likelihood of consuming each of four types of alcohol (beer, wine, spirits, and mixed drinks) is higher for those receiving performance pay even controlling for a long list of economic, social, and personality characteristics and in sensible instrumental variable estimates. We also show that the number of types of alcohol consumed is larger for those receiving performance pay and that the intensity of consumption increases.</p>","PeriodicalId":47700,"journal":{"name":"Industrial Relations","volume":"61 4","pages":"353-383"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"109162219","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The relative importance of industrial relations ideas in politics: A quantitative analysis of political party manifestos across 54 countries","authors":"J. Ryan Lamare, John W. Budd","doi":"10.1111/irel.12296","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/irel.12296","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Ideas are important but hard to quantify, making large-scale, quantitative analyses difficult. Political parties are important ideational contributors, and their election year manifestos provide explicit compilations of their ideas. Using Comparative Manifesto Project data, we propose three channels through which ideas enter into manifestos and examine the fraction of manifesto content devoted to pro-worker and anti-union statements to measure the importance of these ideas. Multivariate analyses across 54 countries, 75 years, and 1132 parties uniquely uncover predictors of industrial relations ideas, including party characteristics, responses to other parties, and economic and political conditions. Further, pro-worker ideas matter to voters during elections.</p>","PeriodicalId":47700,"journal":{"name":"Industrial Relations","volume":"61 1","pages":"22-49"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2021-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/irel.12296","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134805848","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The cooperation between business organizations, trade unions, and the state during the COVID-19 pandemic: A comparative analysis of the nature of the tripartite relationship","authors":"Bernd Brandl","doi":"10.1111/irel.12300","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/irel.12300","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The COVID-19 outbreak has led to an increase in social dialogue in general and, in particular, to an increase in tripartite cooperation between social partners' organizations and state authorities. This paper takes a critical look behind this cooperation and investigates the underlying rationales behind the tripartite cooperation in 19 countries. It is shown that even though the cooperation generally fulfilled its problem-solving function, an expressive function that signaled unity was identified to be of equal importance in such a time of crisis. This expressive function is also identified to potentially serve as the basis for a renewed social partnership.</p>","PeriodicalId":47700,"journal":{"name":"Industrial Relations","volume":"62 2","pages":"145-171"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2021-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/irel.12300","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50132359","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Arianna Tassinari, Jimmy Donaghey, Manuela Galetto
{"title":"Puzzling choices in hard times: Union ideologies of social concertation in the Great Recession","authors":"Arianna Tassinari, Jimmy Donaghey, Manuela Galetto","doi":"10.1111/irel.12299","DOIUrl":"10.1111/irel.12299","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Using the cases of Ireland and Portugal during the post-2008 Great Recession, we argue that unions' ideological formations around social concertation are central in aiding them to navigate their options about whether to engage in concessionary bargaining with government under crisis conditions. Building on Hyman's triangle of union identity, we show how an ideational perspective can complement interest-based accounts of unions' strategies to explain their engagement with policymakers or their opposition in the macro-management of the economy.</p>","PeriodicalId":47700,"journal":{"name":"Industrial Relations","volume":"61 1","pages":"109-134"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2021-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/irel.12299","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128945257","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Effects of recent minimum wage policies in California and nationwide: Results from a pre-specified analysis plan","authors":"David Neumark, Maysen Yen","doi":"10.1111/irel.12297","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/irel.12297","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We analyze the impacts of recent city minimum wage increases in California and nationwide, following a pre-analysis plan (PAP) registered prior to the release of data covering two years of minimum wage increases. For California cities, we find a hint of negative employment effects. Nationally, we find some evidence of disemployment effects for teens, but not young adults or high school dropouts. City-specific analyses provide limited evidence of adverse effects on the share low-income, but the pooled city analysis does not; the national analysis generally finds no impact on the share low-income, except for reductions in the share near-poor, although that may at least partly reflect prior trends. All told, we view the results as providing neither strong evidence of substantial adverse effects of city minimum wages, nor strong evidence of substantial beneficial effects.</p>","PeriodicalId":47700,"journal":{"name":"Industrial Relations","volume":"61 2","pages":"228-255"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2021-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91829485","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}