Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/207343 
Year of Publication: 
2019
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 12517
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Using nationally representative surveys of workplaces with 50 or more employees we find the adoption of High-Performance Work Systems (HPWS) in the public sector are positively correlated with workplace financial performance and the implementation of workplace organizational change. The associations are stable in 2004 and 2011, despite the intervening recession and cuts in public finance. The results are thus broadly consistent with studies finding similar positive correlations between HPWS and workplace performance in the private sector. There was little heterogeneity in effects across sectors within the public sector, with the exception of health services where the effects of HPWS on workplace change were lower.
Subjects: 
high performance work systems
public sector
financial performance
organizational change
JEL: 
J45
M5
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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