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Monetary Reference Points of Managers: An Empirical Investigation of Status Quo Preferences and Social Comparisons
Grund, Christian; Martin, Johannes - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
social comparisons. We explore the relative relevance of these concepts for total compensation as well as for different parts … of the compensation package of managers. Making use of a unique panel data set of managers of the German chemical sector …, we find that social comparisons of compensation indeed affect reported job satisfaction. Managers compare their total …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010604103
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Steering towards the High Road: A Study of Human Resource Management in Two Indian Garment Factories
Lake, Henrietta - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
What are the performance benefits of investing in human resources in a low-cost labor environment where returns to such investment are widely perceived as negligible? This paper presents a matched pair case study on the performance effect of human resource management systems at two garment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005247696
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Monkey Bars and Ladders: The Importance of Lateral and Vertical Job Mobility in Internal Labor Market Careers
Dohmen, Thomas J.; Kriechel, Ben; Pfann, Gerard A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
The research area of the new economics of personnel has a short but important and insightful history. Theory ahead of measurement asks for testing newly developed human resource concepts. These tests often need detailed firm-specific data. Repetition and comparison of results is key in finding...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763801
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Adverse Workplace Conditions, High-Involvement Work Practices and Labor Turnover: Evidence from Danish Linked Employer-Employee Data
Cottini, Elena; Kato, Takao; Nielsen, Niels Westergaard - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
This paper contributes to the emerging strand of the empirical literature that takes advantage of new data on workplace-specific job attributes and voluntary employee turnover to shed fresh insights on the relationship between employee turnover, adverse workplace conditions and HRM environments....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008469712
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Cheating in the Workplace: An Experimental Study of the Impact of Bonuses and Productivity
Gill, David; Prowse, Victoria L.; Vlassopoulos, Michael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
workplace cheating. Firms often use bonus-based compensation plans, such as group bonuses and firm-wide profit sharing, that … induce considerable uncertainty in how much workers are paid. Exposing workers to a compensation scheme based on random … employer's compensation scheme. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010887072
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Equality of Opportunity: Theory and Evidence
Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Peragine, Vito - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
theory of social justice: the principles of compensation and reward. Ex-ante and ex-post versions of the compensation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011265654
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Performance Pay and Wage Inequality
Lemieux, Thomas; MacLeod, W. Bentley; Parent, Daniel - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
using bonuses, commissions, or piece-rates. We find that compensation in performance-pay jobs is more closely tied to both …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233832
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How Unjust! An Experimental Investigation of Supervisors' Evaluation Errors and Agents' Incentives
Marchegiani, Lucia; Reggiani, Tommaso; Rizzolli, Matteo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
In our simple model the supervisor: i) cannot observe the agent's effort; ii) aims at inducing the agent to exert high effort; but iii) can only offer rewards based on performance. Since performance is only stochastically related to effort, evaluation errors may occur. In particular, deserving...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009416946
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Empirical Approaches to Inequality of Opportunity: Principles, Measures, and Evidence
Ramos, Xavi; Van de gaer, Dirk - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
We put together the different conceptual issues involved in measuring inequality of opportunity, discuss how these concepts have been translated into computable measures, and point out the problems and choices researchers face when implementing these measures. Our analysis identifies and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010555240
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Consistency in Organization (updated)
Schlicht, Ekkehart - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
modern compensation theory, but has not been extended to organization theory. The perspective sheds new light on several …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009251371