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Job Mix, Performance Pay, and Matching Outcomes: Contracting with Multiple Heterogeneous Agents
Kim, Jaesoo; Sly, Nicholas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
We examine the problem of designing performance contracts with multiple agents when principals must compete for quality teams from a heterogeneous pool of agents. The trade-off principals face between good recruiting and good team performance provides micro foundations for agents to form stable...
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Job design and innovative work behavior enabling innovation through active or low-strain jobs?
De Spiegelaere, Stan; Van Gyes, Guy; Vandekerckhove, Sem; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Promoting the innovative potential of employees is a main challenge for HR professionals. Previous studies already stressed the role of job design for employee innovativeness. Building on the work of Karasek & Theorell (1990), we focus on the relation between job design, work engagement and...
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On Delegation under Relational Contracts
Gürtler, Oliver - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
In this paper, a principal’s decision between delegating two tasks or handling one of the two tasks herself is analyzed. We assume that the principal uses both, formal contracts and informal agreements sustained by the value of future relationships (relational contracts) as incentive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005785829
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Incentives, Reputation and the Allocation of Authority
Englmaier, Florian; Filipi, Ales; Singh, Ravi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
We address the question how much authority a principal should delegate to a manager with conflicting interests and uncertain ability in a context in which the manager has both compensationbased and reputational incentives. The optimal level of authority balances the value of the manager’s...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008581228
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Two Perspectives on Multiskilling and Product Market Volatility
DeVaro, Jed; Farnham, Martin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
We study the effect of product market volatility on a firm’s choice between multiskilling and specialization. We construct a theoretical model that captures the tradeoff between multiskilling (which gives greater flexibility to reassign workers in production) and specialization (which provides...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008587839
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Screening, Competition, and Job Design Economic Origins of Good Jobs
Bartling, Björn; Fehr, Ernst; Schmidt, Klaus M. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
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Concepção de postos de trabalho em novos sistemas produtivos: o exemplo da robÓtica industrial
Moniz, António - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1993
The design of jobs is defined and its different implications. These aspects must be taken into consideration when applied to new automated systems, once it can occur workers in-adaptations to certain type of activity and tasks. Other concepts that emerge from this are the mental workload,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005621519
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Screening, Competition, and Job Design
Bartling, Björn; Fehr, Ernst; Schmidt, Klaus M. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
In recent decades, many firms offered more discretion to their employees, often increasing the productivity of effort but also leaving more opportunities for shirking. These “high-performance work systems” are difficult to understand in terms of standard moral hazard models. We show...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008513084
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Flexicurity in Labour Contract and Work-Time Arrangements in Bulgaria and Risk Segments
Beleva, Iskra - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
development of new forms as telework, home work, self-employment, etc. The analysis of the flexible contractual and working time …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008836435
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DIE DIFFUSION VON TELEARBEIT: Wo steht die Schweiz heute im internationalen Vergleich? Ergebnisse einer empirischen Untersuchung
Harabi, Najib; Schoch, Rolf; Hespeler, Frank - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2001
Unter „Telearbeit“ versteht man heute allgemein berufliche Erwerbstätigkeit an einem Arbeitsplatz, der mit ….Im angelsächsischen Sprachgebrauch finden wir die Bezeichnungen „Telework“; wir verwenden die beiden Ausdrücke synonym oder auch … „Telecommuting“. Mit Telearbeit "kommt der Arbeitsplatz zum Menschen" statt wie bisher immer umgekehrt. Die mit der industriellen …
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