High Performance Work Systems and Public Sector Workplace Performance in Britain

Michael White () and Alex Bryson
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Michael White: Policy Studies Institute

No 12517, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

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.

Keywords: financial performance; public sector; high performance work systems; organizational change (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J45 M5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 41 pages
Date: 2019-07
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Published - published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2021,73 (3), 1057-1076

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