Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 873
Cover Image
The Moderating Effect of Environmental Turbulence in the Relationship between Entrepreneurial Management and Firm Performance
Pratono, Aluisius Hery; Mahmood, Rosli - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
Contingency theory points out the adaptive management is crucial point to sustainable firm performance. This research aims to determine the relative importance of a set of variables comprising the four entrepreneurial management variables, i.e. strategic orientation, organization culture,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011206886
Cover Image
Importance of the management incentives for the improvement of company’s activities
Slavica, Stevanovic; Ivana, Simeunovic - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
than as a financial outlay, could expect a commitment of the managers to the interests of the company, achievement of … with the value created to business owners. Moreover we have identified financial measures for manager’s contribution to the … company operations, used as a criterion for entitlement to managers’ incentives. Paper ends by assessing the need to adjust …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009386705
Cover Image
Objective versus Subjective Performance Evaluations
Terstiege, Stefan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Why does incentive pay often depend on subjective rather than objective performance evaluations? After all, subjective evaluations entail a credibility issue. While the most plausible explanation for this practice is lack of adequate objective measures, I argue that subjective evaluations might...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010700798
Cover Image
What explains the rise in CEO pay in Germany? A Panel Data Analysis for 1977-2009
Fabbri, Francesca; Marin, Dalia - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
work for. We reject, however, the efficient pay hypothesis as CEO pay and the demand for managers increases in Germany in … difficult times when the typical firm size shrinks. We find further that domestic and global competition for managers has …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010860232
Cover Image
A Romanian approach of the program "Employee of the month"
Armean, Bianca; Baleanu, Virginia; Irimie, Sabin Ioan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Work motivation was and remained a "hot topic" for management and organizational behavior studies, as well as a major concern for practice of Human Resource Management. While such studies have evidenced a lot of factors of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation having different influences on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011108710
Cover Image
Market-based incentives
Grochulski, Borys; Zhang, Yuzhe - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
We study optimal incentives in a principal-agent problem in which the agent's outside option is determined endogenously in a competitive labor market. In equilibrium, strong performance increases the agent's market value. When this value becomes sufficiently high, the threat of the agent's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011108859
Cover Image
What Explains the Rise in CEO Pay in Germany? A Panel Data Analysis for 1977-2009
Fabbri, Francesca; Marin, Dalia - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
work for. We reject, however, the efficient pay hypothesis as CEO pay and the demand for managers increases in Germany in … difficult times when the typical firm size shrinks. We find further that domestic and global competition for managers has …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009654291
Cover Image
Does high involvement management lead to higher pay?
Böckerman, Petri; Bryson, Alex; Ilmakunnas, Pekka - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Using nationally representative survey data for Finnish employees linked to register data on their wages and work histories we find wage effects of high involvement management (HIM) practices are generally positive and significant. However, employees with better wage and work histories are more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008835360
Cover Image
Ethnocentrism and Internal Compensation Structuring: An Experimental Examination of Point Factor Job Evaluation
Martin, Daniel; Wiley, Donna; Legree, Peter - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
“Comparable Worth” represents the concept that men, women, minorities, and whites should receive equal pay for work of equal value from their employer. Much research and many articles have been written in regards to overall pay inequities between men and women; however information regarding...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008836414
Cover Image
Optimal Tournament Contracts for Heterogeneous Workers
Gürtler, Oliver; Kräkel, Matthias - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
We analyze the optimal design of rank-order tournaments with heterogeneous workers. Iftournament prizes do not differ between the workers(uniform prizes), as in the previous tournament literature, the outcome will be ineffcient. In the case of limited liability, the employer may benefit from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005785819