Seminar Calendar, Management and Strategy
Cross-Country Differences in Work
8 March, 2024 | 04:00-05:30 PM
KK 315, K. K. Leung Building, HKU
SPEAKER
Prof. Letian Zhang
Assistant Professor of Business Administration
Harvard Business School
ABSTRACT
We examine the role of a society’s social trust in shaping its organization’s job design. We use a dataset comprising over 60 million job postings from 28 European Union countries. Our most rigorous analytical models employ bilateral trust measures to predict job design choices, including fixed effects on country, firm, and occupation, as well as relying on an instrumental variable approach. This study underscores the role of social trust in shaping organizational practices.
