Spanish Abstract: En la actualidad el compromiso de las personas con la organización constituye un activo importante, puede ser uno de los mecanismos que tiene la dirección de recursos humanos para analizar la lealtad y vinculación de los empleados con su organización. El propósito del...

English Abstract: In this article I examine the determinants of job sector choice with a particular interest in the relationship with the so-called concept of public service motivation (PSM), in the context of a developing country. I use multinomial logit (MNL) to understand individuals'...

There is a tradition in modern business scholarship to see the corporation as a political actor. S.P. Waring argues that the modern business corporation is a polity, Herbert Kaufman views political theorists and management theorists as merely quot;different species of the same genus,quot; while...

We develop a theory of delegation within organizations where agents are privately informed about whether they should be engaged in exploitation or in exploration activities. Excessive delegation lead agents to inefficiently herd into exploration in an attempt to boost their market value. The...

Two alternative relative compensation schemes are compared with respect to total output that can be generated at a given sum of salaries. While the promotion regime guarantees that any salary increase is permanent, the premium system allows a reduction in the income of an agent to the base...

It is often claimed that (i) managers work too hard on operational issues and do not spend enough effort on strategic activities, and (ii) something can be done about this by introducing nonfinancial performance measures as for instance with a balanced scorecard. We give an explanation for both...

Spanish Abstract: La cultura organizacional es una de las bases funadamentales para apoyar a todas aquellas empresas que quieren ser competitivas, ya que a través de la cultura se pueden detectar problemas en los grupos de trabajo y establecer estrategias de mejora. Por lo cual el propósito...

Spanish Abstract: Para el buen funcionamiento de una organización necesita de actividades innovadoras y espontáneas por parte de los empleados que vayan más alla de las exigencias en sus descripciones de puesto así como personas comprometidas con los objetivos organizacionales. El propósito...

A tournament is examined in which two agents with different abilities choose efforts as well as risks. According to the previous literature, the more (less) able agent should choose a low (high) risk strategy, because the first one does not want to imperil his favorable position, whereas the...

It is often argued that competition forces managers to make better choices, thus favoring managerial autonomy in decision making. I formalize and challenge this idea. Suppose that managers care about keeping their position or avoiding interference, and that they can make strategic choices that...