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Social ties at work and effort choice: experimental evidence from Tanzania
Chegere, M. ; Falco, P. ; Menzel, Andreas
Many firms hire workers via social networks. Whether workers who are socially connected to their employers exert more effort on the job is an unsettled debate. We address this question through a novel experiment with small-business owners in Tanzania. Participants are paired with a worker who conducts a real-effort task, and receive a payoff that depends on the worker’s effort. Some business owners are randomly paired with workers they are socially connected with, while others are paired with strangers. With a design that is sufficiently powered to detect economically meaningful effects, we find that being socially connected to one’s employer does not affect workers’ effort.\n
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Knowledge exchange and productivity spill-overs in Bangladeshi garment factories
Menzel, Andreas
Productivity spill-overs within firms have commonly been used as a proxy measure for organizational learning. Using novel data from more than 200 production lines in three garment factories in Bangladesh, this paper extends the evidence on such productivity spill-over in two directions. First, I find that spatial distance within firms matters greatly for the strengths of productivity spill-overs, while product complexity matters little. This has important implications for firms in rapidly developing countries such as Bangladesh, as spill-over strength seems less affected when firms upgrade to more complex products, but seems more affected if firms grow larger. Second, I provide evidence from a randomized communication intervention in the three factories to determine the extent to which productivity spill-overs are indeed a measure of knowledge exchange within firms, and not of other types of peer effects, such as competition. In the intervention, randomly selected line supervisors were instructed by their superiors to share production knowledge when their lines were allocated the same garment for production. The intervention increased the strength of the productivity spill-overs between the targeted production lines. It thus supports the view that productivity spill-overs can be used as a measure of knowledge exchange within firms.
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Communication Strategy Draft for ACP Traductera, s.r.o. for Human Resources Gaining in the Frame of Higher Schools
Valovičová, Eliška ; Syrovátka, Oldřich (advisor) ; Vegrichtová, Radka (referee)
The work is to design appropriate procedures for establishing partner relations with the ACP Traductera Company, Ltd. with selected universities and to raise awareness among the number of students. The selected universities are Faculty of management VŠE in Prague, Teacher's college JČU in Ceske Budejovice, Polytechnic University in Jihlava and Západomoravská University in Trebic. In this work overlap sciences such as strategic marketing, marketing communication, management and human resources management. Marketing communication tools are used for research in selected universities. To catch out views of students on issues of cooperation and awareness of the company questionares were used. In the form of an interview negotiation with University representative was held. In the end there is an evaluation of all selected universities on the issue of cooperation and evaluation of their students in terms of language proficiency. There is a recommendation for the establishment of partnerships with universities that are best suited to the requirements and there is stated in what form this cooperation should take place.
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Analysis of Environmental Education in Firms
Nachtigalová, Marika ; Jílková, Jiřina (advisor) ; Vlčková, Jitka (referee)
Environmental education is one of the voluntary environmental tools that can positively influence implementation of environmental protection actions. The target groups of environmental education are children and youth, public administration, firms and public in general. Environmental education brings positive environmental effects for the environment and also positive economic effects for firms which implement it. These diploma theses analyze demand and supply of the environmental education focused on firms in the Czech Republic. Methodology of the demand analysis is based on individual in-depth interviews with the use of questionaire and sample of the research are small and medium enterprises situated in Hradec Králové region. Methodology of the supply analysis is a desk research method.
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