TY  - JOUR
AU  - Freeman,Richard B.
AU  - Kruse,Douglas
AU  - Blasi,Joseph
TI  - The Same Yet Different: Worker Reports on Labour Practices and Outcomes in a Single Firm Across Countries
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 13233
PY  - 2007
Y2  - July 2007
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w13233
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w13233.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Richard B. Freeman
NBER
1050 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA  02138
Tel: 617/868-3900
Fax: 617/868-2742
E-Mail: freeman@nber.org

Douglas L. Kruse
School of Management and Labor Relations
Rutgers University
94 Rockafeller Road
Piscataway, NJ 08854
Tel: 732/445-5991
Fax: 732/445-2830
E-Mail: kruse@smlr.rutgers.edu

Joseph R. Blasi
Rutgers University
School of Management and Labor Relations
200 B Levin Building
Rockefeller Road
New Brunswick, NJ 08903
Tel: 732/445-5444
Fax: 732/445-2830
E-Mail: blasi@smlr.rutgers.edu
AB  - This paper examines cross-country differences in labour policies and practices and employee performance and attitudes toward work from a sample of nearly 30,000 employees in a large multinational manufacturing firm.  The analysis shows: 1) large establishment and country differences in work practices, performance, and attitudes toward work across countries; 2) qualitatively similar responses of workers to work practices across countries; 3) a strong link between the establishment average of employee reports on the quality of labour-management relations and establishment average measures of employee performance 4) a positive relation between average employee performance and average employee-management relations at the country level, but no relation between country level performance in the firm and measures of the extent of national labour regulations or practices.
ER  -