Tor Eriksson () and Jaime Ortega ()
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Tor Eriksson: Department of Economics, Aarhus School of Business, Postal: Prismet, Silkeborgvej 2, DK 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
Jaime Ortega: Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Postal: Calle Madrid 126, 28903 Getafe (Madrid), Spain
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.
Keywords: Job rotation; employee learning; employer learning; employee motivation
33 pages, May 26, 2004
Note: Submitted for publishing in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review
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