Share schemes, participatory management and work norms

Article Abstract:

Group pay schemes and participatory management have been scrutinized by economists in relation to their effectiveness in particular circumstances. To test the scheme, a survey was administered to 2,066 non-supervisory employees. Survey results indicate that employee commitment to the firm is enhanced through the encouragement of participatory schemes as well as by the promise of long-term employment. The danger, however, lies in situations where unionism, goaded by radical economics, would use the method as a means to firm up class solidarity in anticipation of class conflict.

Participatory management, Incentives (Business), Profit sharing

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Reconsidering "household labor, wage labor and the transformation of the family." (response to D. Kotz, Review of Radical Political Economics, vol. 26, 1994, p. 24)

Article Abstract:

A 1994 study sought to explain the trend towards double wage earning among families. The study attributed the decline in real wages and the increase in overworked workers to the rising number of double wage earning families. However, the study failed to identify the stage that marked the transition from single to double wage earning and analyze the relationship between the family system's phases to the Marxist stages of capitalism. Several methods to completely analyze the family system and its relations under Marxist economics are evaluated.

Work and family

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The bargaining approach and feminist methodology

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Feminist economists have criticized neoclassical individual optimization analysis for its misrepresentation of gender relations and propose that the alternative bargaining or game-theoretic approach can be used instead. This approach entails identifying the subjects and objects of the negotiation and the goals and bargaining power of the negotiators. While the approach is considered valid because it incorporates the role that social structure plays, it is limited in usefulness because of its subjectivism.

Evaluation, Sex role, Sex roles, Game theory

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