Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/123421 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
WWZ Discussion Paper No. 2011/13
Publisher: 
University of Basel, Center of Business and Economics (WWZ), Basel
Abstract: 
This paper empirically examines the impact of trust-based working time on firm performance using panel data from German establishments. Trust-based working time is a human resource management practice that involves a high degree of worker autonomy in terms of scheduling individual working time. From the theoretical viewpoint, trust-based working time may affect worker motivation positively as well as negatively. Therefore, at the establishment level the performance effects of trust-based working time remain an open question. The analysis shows that both establishment productivity and profitability increase with the diffusion of trust-based working time. Referring only to establishments with trust-based working time arrangements, both performance effects are estimated at about 1-2 percent, while in the full sample both per- formance effects are stronger ranging between about 2.5 and 5 percent.
Subjects: 
Trust-based working time
working time flexibility
firm performance
JEL: 
J24
J81
M50
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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