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Works Councils as Gatekeepers : Codetermination, Monitoring Practices, and Job Satisfaction
Grund, Christian; Sliwka, Dirk; Titz, Krystina - 2023
This paper analyzes the role of works councils as gatekeepers safeguarding employee's interests in the adoption of monitoring practices. We first introduce a formal model predicting that (i) the introduction of monitoring practices leads to a stronger increase (or weaker decrease) in job...
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The role of contract types for employees' public service motivation
Grund, Christian; Thommes, Kirsten - In: Schmalenbach business review : sbr 18 (2017) 4, pp. 377-398
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Awards at Work
Neckermann, Susanne; Cueni, Reto; Frey, Bruno S. - 2010
Awards - widespread in the corporate sector and elsewhere - are motivators that derive their value from non-pecuniary concerns such as status and self-image. Quasi-experimental panel data from the call center of a large international bank allow us to estimate the causal impact on effort when...
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Awards at Work
Neckermann, Susanne - 2012
Social incentives like employee awards are widespread in the corporate sector and may be important instruments for solving agency problems. To date, we have little understanding of their effect on behavior. Unique panel data from the call center of a Fortune 500 financial services provider allow...
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Reference Dependent Preferences and the Impact of Wage Increases on Job Satisfaction : Theory and Evidence
Grund, Christian - 2005
The impact of wage increases on job satisfaction is explored theoretically and empirically. To do this, we apply a utility function that rises with the absolute wage level as well as with wage increases. It is shown that when employees can influence their wages by exerting effort, myopic utility...
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Monetary Rewards, Hierarchy Level and Working Hours as Drivers of Employees' Self-Evaluations
Grund, Christian; Soboll, Alexandra - 2023
In this study, we explore the relation between job characteristics and employees' self-evaluations of performance in comparison to their colleagues' performance. Making use of unique individual panel data of ten large firms in Germany's chemical industry, we focus on monetary rewards (bonus...
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Disentangling the role of contract types and sector disparities for public service motivation
Grund, Christian; Thommes, Kirsten - 2015
specific public service motivation (PSM) is shaped. In our paper, we analyze how different degrees of inclusion in the public …
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Awards : a strategic management perspective
Gallus, Jana; Frey, Bruno S. - In: Strategic management journal 37 (2016) 8, pp. 1699-1714
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Awards of strategic signals
Gallus, Jana; Frey, Bruno S. - In: Journal of management inquiry 26 (2017) 1, pp. 76-85
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The motivation of temporary agency workers : an empirical analysis
Grund, Christian; Minten, Axel; Toporova, Nevena - 2017
We are investigating the relationship between individual and job-related characteristics and the motivation of …,000 temporary agency workers, a subjective motivation appraisal is provided by the respective direct manager within the hiring … motivation of temporary agency workers. Women in temporary agency work demonstrate a higher degree of motivation than men …
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