The Effect of High-Performance Work Practices on Employee Earnings in the Steel, Apparel, and Medical Electronics and Imaging Industries

Thomas Bailey, Peter Berg and Carola Sandy

ILR Review, 2001, vol. 54, issue 2A, 525-543

Abstract: Using interview and survey data they gathered in 1995–97 from managers and employees in 45 establishments, the authors investigate how high-performance work practices, such as self-directed teams and offline teams, affected workers' earnings in the apparel, steel, and medical electronics industries. An analysis with extensive controls for personal characteristics and other variables shows a positive relationship between high-performance practices and earnings in the apparel and steel industries. In medical electronics and imaging, the same statistically significant association disappears when a control variable for education is added, suggesting that there is a strong relationship between formal education and high-performance systems in that industry.

Date: 2001
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DOI: 10.1177/001979390105400228

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