Study on the influence of situational factors on corruption;
Why can employees of companies or government agencies entice corruption? Come cases of corruption before more frequently, the higher the bribes offered? Or is corrupt actions on the agenda, because people need to achieve success in a very short time? Dr. Tanja Rabl, an economist at the University of Bayreuth, comes in their research to the opposite conclusion. Situational factors such as time pressure or the amount of bribery performance show no significant effect on the frequency of corrupt actions. Furthermore, she reports in a new article for the magazine "Journal of Business Ethics".
The overarching research project of three universities studied innovation aging workforce: People and their ideas create the foundation for innovation. For companies and organizations, it is necessary in a highly competitive and fast-paced environment that they use their employees as efficient and innovative. But what influence the demographic development in the innovative power of business? Because increase low birth rates and an increase in the lifetime of the average age of employees in almost all organizations.
Germany lies in labor costs for the private sector continue to the middle group of "old" EU 15 - seventh behind major Northern and Western European trading partners. The new figures from the Federal Statistical Office show that the labor cost analysis, which recently presented the Institute for Macroeconomic Research (IMK) in the Hans Böckler Foundation for 2009 and the first quarters 2010, is also true for the entire year 2010. "The international competitiveness of German industry is outstanding, proven by the record numbers in exports," says Prof. Dr. Gustav A. Horn, Scientific Director of IMK. "However, this development has two sides: The long time relatively low growth of wages in Germany will strengthen the export sector, but there was little impetus to domestic demand, and it has contributed to the threatening imbalances in the euro area now we see although a slight. acceleration in wages and consumption, the recovery this year is no longer quite so unilaterally driven by exports. But a lasting turnaround is still pending. "
Work despite illness seems to be a trend of the modern working world. Health insurance companies have found that employees may even go into operation if the doctor advises them to stay at home. But what is scientifically behind the phenomenon of presenteeism? The Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (BAuA) is the study "presenteeism: A Review of the state of research" for the first time an overview.
When employees become involved in key business decisions, they are more motivated and productive. This is the context of a recent study published by the Bonn Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). In the behavioral experiment, the work performance increased by nine percent, after the parties could vote on the applicable remuneration model.
Gross earnings per employee declined by four percent between 2000 and 2010 in real terms
Wages in Germany between 2000 and 2010 lag far behind profit and capital incomes. Average gross earnings per employee have actually declined in real terms - after deducting inflation - over the past decade: 2010 was four percent lower than in 2000. This is the conclusion of the head of the WSI tariff archive. Reinhard Bispinck, in the new collective bargaining policy report of the WSI *. Seven times, 2001, as well as in the six years between 2004 and 2009, employees had to accept real-wage losses. Only in three years, there were real growth, most recently 2010. Difficult economic conditions and deregulation in the labor market have contributed to weak development of gross incomes in the 1990s. Thus, the Hartz reforms, which introduced the unemployment benefit II and enabled a boom in temporary employment, increased the pressure on the merits. The low wage sector in Germany grew.
Medium-sized companies in the food industry are increasingly looking for high potentials
The strong upturn in the German economy has further fueled the competition for the best minds. A recent study by the University of Applied Sciences Erfurt shows that almost 50 percent of all medium-sized companies from the food industry surveyed nationwide are planning to hire high potentials in the next three years. "In the past, such personnel considerations only played a role at around 17 percent of companies," says study leader Prof. Dr. med. Steffen Black. The study was created as part of a practical project with students of the 2. Semester of the master program Business Management at the Faculty of Business and Logistics, where the professor teaches business start-up and SME management.
Explained goal is a strengthening of the decision-making level in the companies. Many entrepreneurs have just realized in the last economic crisis that it makes sense to spread responsibility across multiple shoulders and increase the creativity potential in the company. "Increased demands from globalization are also forcing a rethink in personnel policy," explains personnel consultant Carl Christian Müller of TOPOS Nuremberg, who accompanied the study.
"Shaping working hours" - that was the motto at 29. October in Schloss Saarbrücken the kick-off conference for a new model project with the name "Neue ArbeitsZeitPraxis". The model project is funded by the Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs, accompanied by the Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. The inaugural conference was hosted by the two project partners iso-Institute for Social Research and Social Economy, Saarbrücken and Inmit Institute for Small and Medium Business at the University of Trier. The two institutes have developed the model project and will implement it by April in the selected model regions of Saarland and the chamber districts of Trier and Pfalz in small and medium-sized enterprises.
Working time design as a competitive factor The global financial and economic crisis has also put the issue of working time design back on the agenda as an important tool for employers and employees. The crisis has broadly demonstrated how flexible working hours could help mitigate the consequences of the economic collapse. Valuable employees could be kept, layoffs avoided. In the future too, the organization of working time in companies - including small and medium - will have to ask new questions. How can the requirement for a flexible, responsive and productive business organization be combined with the challenges associated with aging workforces, reconciling work and family life, and maintaining health and employability? Older workforces require an industry-appropriate working time, which allows an old (fair) working life until the retirement. Furthermore, the reconciliation requirements of work and family life will continue to increase, and in addition to childcare, the care of older family members will play an increasingly important role. In addition, there are increasing customer expectations for flexible service times and fast order processing. Balanced, innovative working time models play an important role here for sustainable solutions for employers and employees. Operational practice lags behind this fact, especially in small and medium-sized enterprises, as studies show.
One in three companies used the reduction of credits or the establishment of minus hours on working time accounts to safeguard jobs during the economic crisis, according to a study by the Institute for Employment Research (IAB). Due to the crisis, an average of around 45 hours per employee has been reduced in the companies concerned.
Employees' time credits have decreased on average from around 2009 to 72 hours by the third quarter of 27. At that point in time, every fourth crisis affected company was running out of useful hours. Minus hours were built in five percent of the affected farms.
In the competition for the appointment of management positions, women estimate their own performance on average less than men. According to a study published today by the Bonn Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), this significantly contributes to reducing the chances of women's advancement.
As part of a behavioral experiment, BWL students at the University of Chicago first had to evaluate their own performance from a previous experiment that required time-consuming simple arithmetic. For a correct self-assessment they got money. Those who judged themselves too high or too low, went out of their hands.
Poor working conditions affect the whole life: Those who do a lot of hard work in the course of their employment - for example, every third employee - often become unemployed, usually have to retire earlier and usually have a lower pension. This is the conclusion of a new study sponsored by the Hans Böckler Foundation by the International Institute for Empirical Social Economics (Inifes).
