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Base salaries, bonus payments, and work absence among managers in a German company
Pfeifer, Christian - 2012
bonuses under a Management-by-Objectives (MBO) incentive scheme. Six years of personnel data of 177 managers in a German …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009681440
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Redesigning teams and incentives in a merger : an experiment with managers and students
Montmarquette, Claude; Rullière, Jean-Louis; Villeval, … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001948621
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Promotions and incentives : the case of multi-stage elimination tournaments
Altmann, Steffen (contributor); Falk, Armin (contributor);  … - 2008
of our laboratory experiment is a two-stage tournament in which equilibrium efforts are the same in both stages. We … compare this treatment to a strategically equivalent one-stage tournament and to another two-stage tournament with a more … predictions and compared to the equivalent one-stage tournament. The results for the more convex two-stage tournament show that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003777950
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Asymmetric information in the labor market, immigrants and contract menu
Kar, Saibal; Saha, Bibhas Chandra - 2011
Immigrant workers and their labor force participation in host countries have received critical attention in all concerned disciplines, principally owing to its strong implications for well-being of natives. The ageing population in many rich countries and several related and unrelated issues...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009230711
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Do professionals choke under pressure?
Dohmen, Thomas (contributor) - 2005
High rewards or the threat of severe punishment do not only provide incentives to exert high levels of effort but also create pressure. Such pressure can cause paradoxical performance effects, namely performance decrements despite strong incentives and high motivation. By analyzing the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003231933
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Mixed up?: That's good for motivation
Koch, Alexander K. (contributor);  … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
An essential ingredient in models of career concerns is ex ante uncertainty about an agent's type. This paper shows how career concerns can arise even in the absence of any such ex ante uncertainty, if the unobservable actions that an agent takes influence his future productivity. By...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002452300
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Inputs, incentives, and self-selection at the workplace
Amodio, Francesco; Martinez-Carrasco, Miguel A. - 2019
and managers shape the response to incentives and self-selection at the workplace. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012147088
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Multitasking and subjective performance evaluations : theory and evidence from a field experiment in a bank
Manthei, Kathrin; Sliwka, Dirk - 2018
experiment conducted in a bank. In the treatment group managers obtained access to objective performance measures which raised …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011871952
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Working hours and top management appointments : evidence from linked employer-employee data
Frederiksen, Anders; Kato, Takao; Smith, Nina - 2018
with three distinct theories: (i) human capital; (ii) rat race; and (iii) tournament. Third, guided by each theory, we go … are more beneficial for career advancement. Specifically we find: (i) for managers, working long hours will help them …
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Task difficulty, performance measure characteristics, and the trade-off between insurance and well-allocated effort
Schnedler, Wendelin (contributor) - 2006
When designing incentives for a manager, the trade-off between insurance and a "good" allocation of effort across various tasks is often identified with a trade-off between the responsiveness (sensitivity, precision, signal-noise ratio) of the performance measure and its similarity (congruity,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003323166