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Overexertion of effort under working time autonomy and feedback provision
Dohmen, Thomas; Shvartsman, Elena - 2023
Working time autonomy is often accompanied by output-based incentives to counterbalance the loss of monitoring that comes with granting autonomy. However, in such settings, overprovision of effort could arise if workers are uncertain whether their performance suffices to secure the output-based...
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One size fits all? : the interplay of incentives, effort provision, and personality
Bašić, Zvonimir; Bortolotti, Stefania; Salicath, Daniel; … - 2024
Incentives are supposed to increase effort, yet individuals react differently to incentives. We examine this heterogeneity by investigating how personal characteristics, preferences, and socio-economic background relate to incentives and performance in a real effort task. We analyze the...
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Personality, weak signals, and workplace relevant morality
Dickinson, David L.; Masclet, David - 2024
Employers use applicant signals to help solve an asymmetric information problem in organizations. In this paper, we examine the impact of validated Dark versus Light personality traits on incentivized behaviors important to organizations: task effort, honesty, and reciprocity. A second study...
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Work meaningfulness and effort
Cnossen, Femke; Nikolova, Milena - 2024
Self-determination theory posits that individuals are motivated at work when their inherent psychological needs for competence, autonomy, and relatedness are satisfied. Drawing on this theory, this paper presents a new conceptual model explaining how work meaningfulness influences effort at...
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Does job support make workers happy?
Böckerman, Petri; Bryson, Alex; Kauhanen, Antti; … - 2017
Using linked employer-employee data for Finland we examine associations between job design and ten measures of worker wellbeing. In accordance with Karasek's (1979) model we find positive correlations between many aspects of worker wellbeing and job control. However, contrary to the model, job...
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Job anxiety, work-related psychological illness and workplace performance
Jones, Melanie K.; Latreille, Paul L.; Sloane, Peter J. - 2011
with several measures of workplace performance. -- job anxiety ; stress ; absence ; labour productivity …
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Work disability, work, and justification bias in Europe and the U.S.
Kapteyn, Arie; Smith, James P.; Soest, Arthur van - 2009
To analyze the effect of health on work, many studies use a simple self-assessed health measure based upon a question such as "do you have an impairment or health problem limiting the kind or amount of work you can do?" A possible drawback of such a measure is the possibility that different...
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Financial stress, family conflict, and youths’ successful transition to adult roles
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Ribar, David C. - 2009
We analyze the effect of mothers' and youths' reports of family financial stress and conflict on youths' transitions … associated with youth making later transitions. Overall, financial stress and conflict have independent effects on youths …' transitions and youths' perspectives have different consequences to those of their mothers. -- Youths ; financial stress ; family …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003925516
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Family stress and the intergenerational correlation in self-control
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Tayeb, Haniene - 2024
stress related to: i) parenting responsibilities; ii) parents' relationship quality; iii) household finances; and iv) poor … particularly sensitive to growing up in a stressful environment, opening the door for family stress to shape the intergenerational …
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The use of performance appraisals and employees' presenteeism behavior
Grund, Christian; Nießen, Anna - 2024
Presenteeism behavior, i.e. working despite illness, is a common phenomenon wordwide and can have severe consequences for employees and firms alike. In this study, we investigate the relation between the use of company performance appraisals and employees' presenteeism behavior. We use...
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