Can Human Resource Management Improve Schools' Performance?. (29th May 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Bryson, Alex; Stokes, Lucy; Wilkinson, David
• Is Part Of: Labour. Volume 34:Number 4(2020)
• Page Start: 427
• Page End: 440
• Publication Date: 2020-05-29
• Subjects: Labor economics -- Periodicals; Labor economics -- Europe -- Periodicals; Industrial relations -- Periodicals; Industrial relations -- Europe -- Periodicals; Labor market -- Periodicals; Labor market -- Europe -- Periodicals; 331
• DOI: 10.1111/labr.12178
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1121-7081

Abstract

Abstract: Using data for British workplaces, we compare the associations between human resource management (HRM) practices and schools' performance, comparing those effects to the effects of HRM among private sector workplaces. We do so using measures of workplace performance that are common across all workplaces. We find intensive use of HRM practices is correlated with substantial improvement in workplace performance, both among schools and other workplaces. Results are robust to panel estimates of the correlation between changes in performance and changes in HRM.