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While intuition suggests that empowering workers to have some say in the control of the firm is likely to have beneficial incentive effects, empirical evidence of such an effect is hard to come by because of numerous confounding factors in the naturally occurring data. We report evidence from a...
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intrinsic (questions that people like to work on) and extrinsic motivation (incentive payments) increase time investments and as …. Intrinsic and extrinsic motivation turn out to be complements …
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It is a puzzle why people often evaluate consequences of choices separately (narrow bracketing) rather than jointly (broad bracketing). We study the hypothesis that a present-biased individual, who faces two tasks, may bracket his goals narrowly for motivational reasons. Goals motivate because...
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measures of motivation we find the returns to small firm investments in HRM are u-shaped. Small firms benefit from … are initially introduced, but can restore positive motivation when they invest intensively in HRM practices in a way that … employee motivation is modified somewhat by the recessionary transition, it remains rather robust and continues to have …
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, however, with a minority of workers report crowding in of motivation. Thus, the impact of performance pay might depend on the …
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). These results are consistent with models of conformism and self-motivation …
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Based on a unique case study-dataset, the paper analyses job satisfaction and public service motivation in Germany. A …
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We are investigating the relationship between individual and job-related characteristics and the motivation of …,000 temporary agency workers, a subjective motivation appraisal is provided by the respective direct manager within the hiring … motivation of temporary agency workers. Women in temporary agency work demonstrate a higher degree of motivation than men …
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We provide a tractable model of motivational goal bracketing by a present-biased individual, extending previous work to show that the main insights from models with rational goals carry over to a setting with non-rational goals. Goals motivate because they serve as reference points that make...
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rewards to performance increases effort, but that they can also backfire, reducing effort. Intrinsic motivation, the internal …. If the incentives crowd-out intrinsic motivation, and the effect is large enough, the net motivational effect on effort …, is one facet of intrinsic motivation, triggered by the combination of high-powered incentives and egoistic principal …
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