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The Adoption of Job Rotation: Testing the Theories

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Eriksson, Tor () (Department of Economics, Aarhus School of Business)
Ortega, Jaime () (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)

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Abstract

The aim of this paper is to test three theories for why firms introduce job rotation schemes:

employee learning, employer learning, and employee motivation. The earlier literature has made

use of either information about establishment characteristics or data coming from personnel

records of a single firm. In order to improve upon this, we make use of a unique data set

constructed by merging information from a fairly detailed survey directed at Danish private

sector firms with a linked employer-employee panel data. This allows us to include firm and

workforce characteristics as well as firms HRM practices as explanatory variables, and hence to

carry out a more comprehensive analysis.

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Paper provided by University of Aarhus, Aarhus School of Business, Department of Economics in its series Working Papers with number 04-3.

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Length: 33 pages
Date of creation: 26 May 2004
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Handle: RePEc:hhs:aareco:2004_003

Note: Submitted for publishing in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review
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Keywords: Job rotation; employee learning; employer learning; employee motivation;

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M12 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting - - Business Administration - - - Personnel Management; Executive Compensation
M54 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting - - Personnel Economics - - - Labor Management

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  1. Maury Gittleman & Michael Horrigan & Mary Joyce, 1998. "Flexible workplace practices: Evidence from a nationally representative survey," Industrial and Labor Relations Review, ILR Review, ILR School, Cornell University, vol. 52(1), pages 99-115, October.
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  3. Paul Osterman, 1994. "How common is workplace transformation and who adopts it?," Industrial and Labor Relations Review, ILR Review, ILR School, Cornell University, vol. 47(2), pages 173-188, January.
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  5. Sandra E. Black & Lisa M. Lynch, 2004. "What's driving the new economy?: the benefits of workplace innovation," Economic Journal, Royal Economic Society, vol. 114(493), pages F97-F116, 02. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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