Innovative Workplace Practices and Occupational Injuries and Illnesses in the United States

Askenazy, Philippe

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“…In conjunction with much of the high performance work system literature has been an accompanying stream of literature that has asked whether such new models of work organization are simply ways to have workers work harder and not just smarter (or at least harder as well as smarter) with correspondingly negative outcomes for workers (Fairris, 2002;Askenazy, 2001). Fairris and Tohyama (2002) argue that the high performance model, originating in Japan, has not been transferable to the US with the same success because the institutional mechanisms in place in Japan are absent in the US.…”

Section: The Downside Of the High Performance Work System Model-lean mentioning

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Dignity at Work for Low Wage, Low Skill Service Workers

Berg

Frost

2006

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Using responses from a telephone survey of 589 low wage, low skill workers in US hospitals, the authors investigate the workplace features that influence workers’ perceptions of dignity at work. Both work organization variables and union representation are investigated as potential factors affecting workers’ perceptions of fair treatment by their employer, intrinsically satisfying work, and economic security. Work organization and union representation have little effect on dignity at work with the exception of their association with higher wages and therefore a greater degree of economic security. Results indicate that higher pay, adequate levels of staffing and resources, and access to training are the variables that are most closely associated with dignity on the job.On a récemment accordé beaucoup d’attention à l’inégalité croissante des gains et aux conditions économiques qui se détériorent chez les travailleurs à faibles revenus (Levy et Murnane, 1992; Johnson et Kuhn, 2004). En plus de faibles revenus, ces travailleurs doivent aussi affronter de mauvaises conditions de travail : insécurité d’emploi, traitement arbitraire et absence de représentation. De plus en plus, en relations industrielles, on cherche comment améliorer la vie au travail de ces travailleurs. La dignité au travail est devenue un sujet de ralliement, non seulement pour les syndicats, comme ce fut traditionnellement le cas, mais aussi pour les décideurs politiques et les intellectuels.Dans cet article, nous avons voulu évaluer les effets de certaines caractéristiques des lieux de travail sur les perceptions que les travailleurs se font de la dignité au travail, en recourant à une enquête auprès des personnes occupant des postes peu qualifiés et peu rémunérés dans le secteur des services. De plus, nous nous sommes demandés si la représentation syndicale ou des changements dans l’organisation du travail associés à des pratiques de haut rendement au travail affectent ou non la perception de ces travailleurs de la dignité en emploi.Les données proviennent d’une enquête effectuée dans quinze hôpitaux communautaires américains. Ce type d’hôpitaux constitue la majeure partie des hôpitaux aux États-Unis, et nous avons retenu le groupe le plus représentatif, c’est-à-dire ceux qui comptent entre 200 et 400 lits. Les hôpitaux sont répartis dans presque toutes les régions du pays. L’étude a débuté à l’été de l’année 2000 et elle s’est terminée au printemps de 2002.Notre analyse s’appuie sur une enquête téléphonique auprès de 589 travailleurs, dans les quinze hôpitaux retenus, et comprend des questions sur tous les aspects du travail accompli et de la carrière. Nous avons aussi visité chaque hôpital où nous avons interviewés des gestionnaires, des surveillants et des représentants syndicaux. En recourant à l’analyse multivariée, nous avons ensuite analysé l’effet de la syndicalisation et des pratiques de travail sur la perception de la dignité au travail dans les établissements. Pour estimer la perception de la dignité au travail par les travailleurs, n...

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Section: The Downside Of the High Performance Work System Model-lean mentioning

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Dignity at Work for Low Wage, Low Skill Service Workers

Berg

Frost

2006

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“…-The results suggests that selected organizational practices (performancebased pay, use of temporary employees, overtime/hours worked per week, training, teams and the use of a production line) have more of an impact on safety than they do on productivity, which is surprising because organizational practices are usually implemented because of their hopedfor effect on firm performance. P. Askenazy [18] United States 2001 -During the 1980s and the early 1990s, occupational injuries and illnesses dramatically increased in numerous American sectors. -The consequences of autonomous work teams, job rotation or TQM on safety and health are by no means obvious.…”

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“…The article "Innovative workplace practices and occupational injuries and illnesses in the United States" [18] and "Musculoskeletal disorders in relation to age and occupation in Swedish construction workers" [40] were the third most cited on Google Scholar, both with 104 quotes in the references of the bibliographic portfolio, available respectively in the journals Economic and Industrial Democracy and American Journal of Industrial Medicine. Next, the article "Do work technique and musculoskeletal symptoms differ between men and women performing the same type of work tasks?"…”

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“…The repetitive strain injuries have been predominantly occurring in workers who develop their activities with repetitive motions, dominated in the packing plant cutting rooms, where the relative lack of control over work generates stress and conditions for diseases [18][19][20]. This context raises the question: how to seek relevant information in scientific publications that are necessary to research the topic assessment of injuries of repetitive efforts with a focus on the poultry meats industry?…”

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Injuries of Repetitive Efforts in Workers from the Poultry Meat Industry: A Bibliometric Analysis of Literature

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Injuries of repetitive efforts constitute one of the prime causes of absenteeism in the workplace, bear a considerable cost for the public health system and can cast doubt on the sustainability of a company. The objective of this paper is to build, in the researchers, the needed knowledge to choose a set of relevant scientific articles about repetitive strain injuries in the poultry meat industry, aiming to identify characteristics in those scientific publications that have the potential to contribute to the topic of this paper. The research is characterized as exploratory-descriptive, and draws on primary and secondary data sources. The study involves the application of a method for the selection and analysis of the selected articles. To this end, the method utilized was the knowledge development process-constructivist (Proknow-C), as the theoretical intervention instrument. Within the process development, a portfolio of 16 articles aligned to the research and scientifically recognized with the main periodicals, papers, authors and keywords was obtained. The ProKnow-C process allowed us to identify opportunities in the literature about injuries in the poultry meat industry and showed opportunities for future research. This paper, under the constructivist perspective, presents a structured process to build, in the researcher, the necessary knowledge for the identification, selection and analysis of relevant scientific articles relating to research context and, for these articles, find prominences and opportunities for a research theme without similar publications.

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“…However, this line of research has expanded in a more quantitative direction recently. Askenazy (2001), and Fairris and Brenner (2001) investigate the relationship between innovative work practices and workplace injuries using establishment data originating from Osterman's (1994) survey of U.S. establishments. They find evidenc e of a positive relationship between innovative work practices and various occupational injuries.…”

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Innovative work practices and sickness absence: what does a nationally representative employee survey tell?

Böckerman¹,

Johansson²,

Kauhanen³

2011

Industrial and Corporate Change

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The paper examines the effect of innovative work practices on the prevalence of sickness absence and accidents at work. We focus on several different aspects of workplace innovations (self-managed teams, information sharing, employer-provided training and incentive pay) along with the "bundles" of those practices. We use nationally representative individual-level data from the Finnish Quality of Work Life Survey from 2008. Using single equation models, we find that innovative work practices increase short-term sickness absence for blue-collar and lower white-collar employees. In twoequation models that treat innovative workplace practices as endogenous variables we do not find relationship between innovative work practices and sickness absence or accidents at work. JEL classification: I12, J28

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Innovative Workplace Practices and Occupational Injuries and Illnesses in the United States

Cited by 62 publications

References 25 publications

Dignity at Work for Low Wage, Low Skill Service Workers

Dignity at Work for Low Wage, Low Skill Service Workers

Injuries of Repetitive Efforts in Workers from the Poultry Meat Industry: A Bibliometric Analysis of Literature

Innovative work practices and sickness absence: what does a nationally representative employee survey tell?

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