Human Resource Management Practices and Wage Dispersion in U.S. Establishments



Table 1: Workplace Organization and Practices, Meansa for NES 1993 and 1996

Year

Variables

All

1993

Manuf.

Non Man.

All

1996

Manuf.

Non Man.

Involvement

Meeting (% wkrs)

52.35

38.88

58.44

61.88

57.23

63.46

(1.51)

(1.83)

(2.53)

(1.46)

(1.81)

(2.58)

Team (% wkrs)

12.13

10.38

12.92

19.07

18.95

19.11

(0.87)

(1.04)

(1.52)

(1.12)

(1.38)

(1.98)

Job Rot. (% wkrs)

13.70

15.90

12.70

16.45

25.36

13.40

Workplace

(0.92)

(1.25)

(1.49)

(0.97)

(1.47)

(1.51)

# Management Lvls

2.06

1.95

2.11

1.73

2.15

1.58

(0.05)

(0.05)

(0.10)

(0.10)

(0.20)

(0.09)

# Wkrs/Supervisor

15.28

15.54

15.16

12.62

13.98

12.16

(0.68)

(0.88)

(1.14)

(0.45)

(0.61)

(0.76)

Benchmarking

0.28

0.24

0.30

0.33

0.28

0.34

(0.02)

(0.02)

(0.03)

(0.02)

(0.02)

(0.03)

TQM/Re-engineering

0.35

0.40

0.29

0.32

0.29

(0.02)

(0.02)

(0.03)

(0.02)

(0.02)

(0.03)

Training Team

0.53

0.50

0.54

0.70

0.65

0.72

Pay

(0.02)

(0.02)

(0.03)

(0.02)

(0.02)

(0.03)

Stock Opt.-Prof. Sha.

0.77

0.74

0.79

0.46

0.51

0.44

(0.01)

(0.02)

(0.02)

(0.02)

(0.02)

(0.03)

All Practices

0.06

0.03

0.08

0.04

0.04

0.04

(0.01)

(0.01)

(0.02)

(0.01)

(0.01)

(0.01)

No Practices

0.02

0.04

0.01

0.01

0.03

0.00

ComputerUse

(0.00)

(0.01)

(0.01)

(0.00)

(0.01)

(0.00)

% Managers

0.74

0.70

0.76

82.42

82.98

82.23

(0.01)

(0.01)

(0.02)

(1.14)

(1.19)

(2.14)

% Others

0.41

0.25

0.48

61.00

33.86

70.25

(0.01)

(0.01)

(0.02)

(1.42)

(1.35)

(2.44)

N_____________

816

537

279

765

527

238_______

a-Standard errors in parenthesis.

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