Similar Search Results

Workplace Performance, Worker Commitment and Loyalty

Brown, Sarah - 2011

Using matched employer-employee level data drawn from the 2004 UK Workplace and Employee Relations Survey, we explore the determinants of a measure of worker commitment and loyalty (CLI) and whether CLI influences workplace performance. Factors influencing employee commitment and loyalty include...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013130796

Job Satisfaction and Co-Worker Wages : Status or Signal?

Clark, Andrew - 2007

This paper uses matched employer-employee panel data to show that individual job satisfaction is higher when other workers in the same establishment are better-paid. This runs contrary to a large literature which has found evidence of income comparisons in subjective well-being. We argue that...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012775695

Reference Dependent Preferences and the Impact of Wage Increases on Job Satisfaction : Theory and Evidence

Grund, Christian - 2005

The impact of wage increases on job satisfaction is explored theoretically and empirically. To do this, we apply a utility function that rises with the absolute wage level as well as with wage increases. It is shown that when employees can influence their wages by exerting effort, myopic utility...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012784044

I Can't Get No Satisfaction : The Power of Perceived Differences in Employee Retention and Turnover

Gevrek, Deniz - 2017

This study explores the role of salary raises and the perception of employees of these salary raises on employees' intended retention and turnover. By using a unique survey data set from an American university, this study investigates a novel hypothesis that faculty perceptions of salary raises,...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012962268

Job Satisfaction and Public Service Motivation

Kaiser, Lutz - 2014

Based on a unique case study-dataset, the paper analyses job satisfaction and public service motivation in Germany. A special issue of the investigation is related to the evaluation of performance pay scales that were introduced some years ago to German public employees within the frame of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013058732

Pay Enough, Don't Pay Too Much or Don't Pay at All? The Impact of Bonus Intensity on Job Satisfaction

Pouliakas, Konstantinos - 2010

Using ten waves (1998-2007) of the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), this paper investigates the ceteris paribus association between the intensity of incentive pay, the dynamic change in bonus status and the utility derived from work. After controlling for individual heterogeneity biases,...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013148342

Competition, Cooperation, and Corporate Culture

Kosfeld, Michael; von Siemens, Ferdinand - 2021

Teamwork and cooperation between workers can be of substantial value to a firm, yet the level of worker cooperation often varies between individual firms. We show that these differences can be the result of labor market competition if workers have heterogeneous preferences and preferences are...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316936

Monetary Rewards, Hierarchy Level and Working Hours as Drivers of Employees' Self-Evaluations

Grund, Christian; Soboll, Alexandra - 2023

In this study, we explore the relation between job characteristics and employees' self-evaluations of performance in comparison to their colleagues' performance. Making use of unique individual panel data of ten large firms in Germany's chemical industry, we focus on monetary rewards (bonus...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014345292

HRM and Small-Firm Employee Motivation : Before and after the Recession

Bryson, Alex - 2017

A long-running debate in the small firms' literature questions the value of formal 'human resource management' (HRM) practices which have been linked to high performance in larger firms. We contribute to this literature by exploiting linked employer-employee surveys for 2004 and 2011. Using...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012957472

Entrepreneurship, Wealth, Liquidity Constraints and Start-Up Costs

Fonseca, Raquel; Michaud, Pierre-Carl; Sopraseuth, Thepthida - 2021

entrepreneurs in an economy. We develop a dynamic occupational choice model with endogenous wealth and entry into entrepreneurship …. The model predicts that, with liquidity constraints, the probability of entering entrepreneurship is an increasing … wealth profile for the fraction of workers in entrepreneurship, start-up costs weaken this relationship by depressing the …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316960

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
Next
Last