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Sharing Information through Delegation and Collaboration
Swank, Otto H.; Visser, Bauke - 2004
This article analyzes under which conditions a manager can motivate a junior worker by verbal communication, and explains why communication is often tied up with organizational choices as job enlargement and collaboration. Our model has two important features. First, the manager has more...
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Social Relations and Relational Incentives
Dur, Robert; Tichem, Jan - 2012
each other. The contract may contain two types of incentives for the agent to work hard: a bonus and a threat of dismissal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326344
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Wage Structure and the Incentive Effect of Promotions
van Herpen, Marco; Cools, Kees; van Praag, Mirjam - 2004
This paper studies wage structure characteristics and their incentive effects within one firm. Based on personnel records and an employee survey, we provide evidence that wages are attached to jobs and that promotions play a dominant role as a wage determinant. We furthermore show that a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325291
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The Self-Perception Theory vs. a Dynamic Learning Model
Swank, Otto H. - 2006
Several economists have directed our attention to a finding in the social psychological literature that extrinsic motivation may undermine intrinsic motivation. The self-perception (SP) theory developed by Bem (1972) explains this finding. The crux of this theory is that people remember their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325504
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Matching and Winning? The Impact of Upper and Middle Managers on Team Performance
Peeters, Thomas; Salaga, Steven; Juravich, Matthew - 2015
In this paper we investigate the impact of upper and middle level managers on firm performance by simultaneously estimating manager and match qualities for management pairings in Major League Baseball (MLB). We document the economic significance of managers at both organizational levels and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011403568
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Social Exchange and Common Agency in Organizations
Dur, Robert; Roelfsema, Hein - 2006
We study the relation between formal incentives and social exchange in organizations where employees work for several …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325410
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The Effect of Job Satisfaction on Job Search: Not just whether, but also where
Delfgaauw, Josse - 2005
Using survey data of public sector employees in the Netherlands, this paper shows that workers' satisfaction with various job domains not only affects whether but also where workers search for another job. An intuitive pattern emerges. Workers try to leave their current employer when their job...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325521
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Gift Exchange in the Workplace
Dur, Robert - 2008
We develop a model of manager-employee relationships where employees care more for their manager when they are more convinced that their manager cares for them. Managers can signal their altruistic feelings towards their employees in two ways: by offering a generous wage and by giving attention....
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The Breakdown of Morale
Vikander, Nick - 2009
productively, either because of a sense of fairness or because of implicit incentives from repeated interactions. Team members …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325888
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Reciprocity and Incentive Pay in the Workplace
Dur, Robert; Non, Arjan; Roelfsema, Hein - 2008
should be given weak financial incentives. In a multiple-agent setting, this problem can be resolved using promotion … incentives. We test these predictions using German Socio-Economic Panel data. We find that workers who are more reciprocal are … significantly more likely to receive promotion incentives, while there is no such relation for individual bonus pay. …
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