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identity and positively influence their effort. We develop an agency model, in which employees have both a personal and a … incentives. Second, by creating a shared identity in the workforce, the firm is able to reduce the adverse selection problem. We …
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In this article, we propose to view the firm as a locus of socialization in which employees with heterogeneous work attitudes can be motivated and coordinated through adherence to a social ideal of effort. We develop an agency model in which employees have both a personal and a social ideal of...
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identity and positively influence their effort. We develop an agency model, in which employees have both a personal and a … incentives. Second, by creating a shared identity in the workforce, the firm is able to reduce the adverse selection problem. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010754873
investments to change agents’ (public workers) identity. In the model, workers within the organisation can have different … workers’ identity through contracts offered by the firm. In the model, identity is a motivation source which reduces agents …’ isutility from effort. We use the term identity to refer to a situation in which the worker shares the organisational objectives …
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investments to change agents’ (public workers) identity. In the model, workers within the organization can have different … workers’ identity through contracts offered by the firm. In the model, identity is a motivation source which reduces agents …’ disutility from effort. We use the term identity to refer to a situation in which the worker shares the organizational objectives …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010860721
We investigate whether incentive schemes signal social norms and thus affect behavior beyond their direct economic consequences. A principal-agent experiment is studied in which prior to contract choice principals are informed about past actions of other agents and thus have more information...
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and chose between piece-rate and competitive-tournament compensation. Identity priming, moderated by gender, significantly … driven not by lack of ability, but rather by the increased salience of gender/family identity, influenced by marriage and …
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We discuss a principal-agent model in which the principal has the opportunity to include a non-compete agreement in the employment contract. We show that not imposing such an agreement can be beneficial for the principal as the possibility to leave the firm generates implicit incentives for the...
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We discuss a principal-agent model in which the principal has the opportunity to include a non-compete agreement in the employment contract. We show that not imposing such an agreement can be beneficial for the principal as the possibility to leave the firm generates implicit incentives for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703004
We develop a theory of incentives, wages, and employment in the context of team production. A central insight is that specialization and division of labor not only improve productivity but also increase eort and the sensitivity of eort to incentives under moral hazard. We show that incentives...
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