Corporate Sports Activity and Work Morale: Evidence from a Japanese Automobile Maker

Masaru Sasaki () and Fumio Ohtake

No 7836, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: This paper estimates the factors affecting the relationship between the wins and losses of corporate sports club teams and the work morale of employees, using an original survey of employees from a selected Japanese automobile maker. We find that corporate sports club teams' performance is an important factor influencing the work morale of older employees and employees who work with colleagues belonging to those teams in the same division. We can say statistically that the impacts of teams' wins and losses on changes in work morale of older employees at the individual level are symmetric; that is, the work morale of employees is significantly raised by own teams' wins but reduced by own teams' losses.

Keywords: Japan; corporate sports; work morale; subjective well-being analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L62 M52 M54 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 23 pages
Date: 2013-12
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-hap, nep-hrm and nep-spo
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Published - published in: Journal of Behavioral Economics and Finance, 2013, 6, 37-46

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