High Performance Workplace Practices and Job Satisfaction: Evidence from Europe

By Thomas K. Bauer. Social Science Research Network, 2004

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Using individual data from the European Survey on Working Conditions (ESWC) covering all EU member states, this study aimed at contributing to our understanding of the effects of High Performance Workplace Organizations (HPWOs) on worker's job satisfaction. The estimation results show that a higher involvement of workers in HPWOs is associated with higher job satisfaction. This positive effect is dominated by the involvement of workers in flexible work systems, indicating that workers particularly value the opportunities associated with these systems, such as an increased autonomy over how to perform their tasks, and increased communication with co-workers. Being involved in team work and job rotations as well as supporting human resource practices appear to contribute relatively little to the increased job satisfaction from being involved in HPWOs.

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Work autonomy, work pressure, and job satisfaction: An analysis of European Union countries (2014, background): “Autonomy at work is shown to have a favorable impact on the workers’ well-being (Bauer, 2004; Knudsen et al., 2011; Ryan and Deci, 2000) as well as on their performance and creativity (Gagné and Deci, 2005).”
Involuntary Temporary and Part-Time Work, Job Quality and Well-Being at Work (2015, background): “Booth et al. (2002) found that controlling for unobserved heterogeneity reduced the effects on training incidence only marginally from effects obtained in pooled probit regression estimates.”
Participation in continuous, on-the-job training and the impact on job satisfaction: longitudinal evidence from the German labour market (2007, background): “So finds Bauer (2004) in a recent study and by reference to high performance workplace organizations (HPWOs) and supplementary human resources practices that the involvement in HPWOs substantially increases the level of job satisfaction, but that employer-provided training contributes little to…”
Your Money or Your Life: Changing Job Quality in OECD Countries (2005, unknown): “Bauer (2004) uses 2000 data from the European Survey of Working Conditions, and finds a positive correlation between job satisfaction and autonomy and communication; there is however little correlation with respect to team work and job rotation.”