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mainly due to the fight for dominance at the top of the hierarchy. Hence, in environments where monetary incentives are weak …
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function provides different incentives for the agent along scale changes. When contribution levels are substitutes, bigger … groups provide more incentives for free-riders, thus reducing the contribution level, because of decreasing marginal …
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In this paper, I seek to understand the behavioral basis of higher organizational learning and adaption as a teleological dynamic equilibrium process to decipher the underlying psycho-physiological aspects of individual cognitive learning related to organizational adaption. Dynamics of cognitive...
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A principal wants two sequential tasks to be performed by wealth-constrained agents. When the tasks are conflicting (i.e., when a first-stage success makes second-stage effort less effective), the principal's profit-maximizing way to induce high efforts is to hire one agent to perform both...
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“Comparable Worth” represents the concept that men, women, minorities, and whites should receive equal pay for work of equal value from their employer. Much research and many articles have been written in regards to overall pay inequities between men and women; however information regarding...
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This paper is studying the evolution in the perception of the knowledge distribution and intra-firm operation and the way these factors affect the effort of employees. (organisational structure, back-office and front-office processes, etc. ) . The question this paper want to explore is whether...
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In this paper, we introduce firm heterogeneity in the context of a model of non-compliance with minimum wage legislation. The introduction of heterogeneity in the ease with which firms can be monitored for non compliance allows us to show that non-compliance will persist in sectors which are...
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employee effort is the amount of discretion offered at work; (b) pay incentives and ‘gift exchanges’ are the most important … motivators; (c) the use of monitoring and Taylor-type assembly lines are the least effective incentives; and (d) the optimal …
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how the traditional incentives’ mechanisms are modified in a non-profit setting. In particular, market, reputational and … ideological incentives are considered. The analysis highlights that new governance rules are necessary. In this context a new …
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demonstrates how the provision of incentives - including the optimal aggregation of information - takes the agent's task …
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