Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/325105 
Year of Publication: 
2025
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 18047
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
An employee's affective commitment to the firm is a key driver of individual and, ultimately, firm performance. We study the role of high involvement management (HIM) practices in promoting affective commitment and ask if different components of HIM, specifically power, information, rewards, and knowledge, form a coherent management system and/or are complementary across components. Coherence implies that the components are not in conflict with or substitute for each other, i.e., adding them individually generates additional positive returns, while complementarity implies that the returns from adding one component increase with the number of other components already in place. We use detailed and unique data from a large sample of German firms and their employees and find that while HIM is a coherent management system, there are no strong complementarities across practices.
Subjects: 
high involvement management
affective commitment
coherent management system
complementarity
JEL: 
D2
M1
M5
L2
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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