The paper at hand is the first that explores the notion of attachment orientations, i.e. attachment anxiety and attachment avoidance, influencing individual attachment towards an organization, i.e. employees’ affective, normative and continuance commitment. Findings of a questionnaire survey...

Warum und wie Diversity Management Eingang in deutsche Organisationen fand, wird vor dem theoretischen Hintergrund des organisationssoziologischen Neoinstitutionalismus analysiert. Dazu werden qualitative Interviews mit Diversity-Beauftragten mittels einer wissenssoziologischen Diskursanalyse...

Unternehmenspraktika gelten als wirkungsvolle Personalmarketing-Massnahmen zur Bindung zukuenftiger Mitarbeiter und werden von Organisationen haeufig zur Personalrekrutierung und Personalauswahl herangezogen. In der berichteten Studie wird die Bindungswirkung solcher Praktika unter Rueckgriff...

This paper examines the relationship between organization contextual variables and humanresource management (HRM) practices in small firms. The proposed model is based on anintegration of theoretical perspectives, including the resource-based approach, institutionaltheory, transaction cost...

The performance of a work team commonly depends on the effort exerted by the team members as well as on the division of tasks among them. However, when leaders assign tasks to team members, performance is usually not the only consideration. Favouritism, employees' seniority, employees'...

We manipulate workers' perceived meaning of a job in a field experiment. Half of the workers are informed that their job is important, the other half are told that their job is of no relevance. Results show that workers exert more effort when meaning is high, corroborating previous findings on...

This paper investigates the optimal design of incentives when agents distort probabilities. We show that the type of probability distortion displayed by the agent and its degree determine whether an incentivecompatible contract can be implemented, the strength of the incentives included in the...

Comparative payment schemes and tournament-style promotion mechanisms are ubiquitous in the work place. We test experimentally whether they have a negative impact on the willingness to cooperate. Participants first perform in a simple task and then participate in a public goods game. The payment...

In den letzten Jahren ist in Forschung und Praxis ein zunehmendes Interesse an unternehmerisch orientierten MitarbeiterInnen, sogenannten IntrapreneurInnen, zu beobachten. Der vorliegende Artikel beschreibt ein Modell fuer Intrapreneurship in der beruflichen Erstausbildung (Lehre), das empirisch...