We examine the impact of individual-level motives upon innovative effort and performance in firms. Drawing from … economics and social psychology, we develop a model of the impact of individuals' motives and incentives upon their innovative … effort and performance. Using data on over 11,000 industrial scientists and engineers (SESTAT 2003), we find that individuals …

related. Time spent in other work rose with the presence of children, especially for women. Employee reaction to the program …

established firms. We then explore whether such differences in employee motives lead to differences in innovative performance … employees in small and large established firms, and this difference is partly mediated by employee motives – especially startup …

financial incentives in attracting a larger and more qualified pool of applicants, (ii) the elasticity of the labor supply …

This paper examines performance in a tournament setting with different levels of inequality in rewards and different … solve, and the number of solved mazes is lowest when payments are independent of the participants' performance; rises to a …

neglected behavior: employee misconduct and shirking. Through employing more than 3000 workers, we find that our usage of CSR … increases employee misbehavior - 20% more employees act detrimentally toward our firm by shirking on their primary job duty when …

the policies have a causal impact on employee well-being and firm performance … workplace culture, turnover, and firm performance in a non-representative sample of companies: firms that applied to the "100 … Best Companies to Work For in America" competition from 2005 to 2007. Although employers with good labor practices self …

cognitive effort, on work overload and on wage setting. Using a matched employer / employee survey on computerisation and …

significant positive cross-sectional correlation between branch-level employee attitudes and branch sales performance is not ….S. bank, we consider whether there is a distinctive workplace component to employee attitudes despite the common set of … to the existence of a systematic branch-specific component to employee attitudes. "Branch effects" can also explain why a …