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Skills, preferences and rights: Evolutionary complementarities in labour organisation

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  • Stefano Dughera

    (EconomiX - EconomiX - UPN - Université Paris Nanterre - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

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In this paper, we model the interaction between types of workers and organisations through evolutionary game theory. In particular, we compare two paradigms of work organisation: in the "hierarchical" regime, it is the organisation herself who makes all relevant decisions, leaving little autonomy to her employees. Conversely, modern "networks" empower their workforce with the right to take initiatives, modulate routines and use their general knowledge in an instrumental way. In our framework, the choice to decentralise decisions is driven by the interplay between three elements: the complexity of production, the employees' work preferences and skills and the labour-discipline implications of different organisational modes. By analysing a series of match-specific effects, we derive parametrisations for which centralisation dominates delegation and vice-versa. Explicit conditions under which the system remains stuck in Pareto-inferior situations are also obtained. Finally, we interpret our results to draw comments on the current contraction of job-discretion in OECD countries.

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  • Stefano Dughera, 2020. "Skills, preferences and rights: Evolutionary complementarities in labour organisation," Post-Print hal-02472905, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-02472905
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    Cited by:

    1. Mohamed Ali Ben Halima & Nathalie Greenan & Joseph Lanfranchi, 2021. "Organisational changes and long-term sickness absence and injury leave: a difference in difference approach," Working Papers hal-03243494, HAL.
    2. Nathalie Greenan & Silvia Napolitano, 2021. "Why Do Employees Participate in Innovations? Skills and Organizational Design Issues and the Ongoing Technological Transformation," Post-Print halshs-03464619, HAL.
    3. Stefano Dughera, 2022. "The evolution of workplace control leadership, obedience and organizational performance," Journal of Evolutionary Economics, Springer, vol. 32(2), pages 399-421, April.

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