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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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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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Social comparisons of wage increases and job satisfaction

Grund, Christian; Rubin, Maike - 2016

of differences between individual wage increases and wage increases of comparable employees are related to managers' job … satisfaction. Using a panel data set of managers in the German chemical industry, we indeed find first evidence. The relation … between relative wage increases and job satisfaction is relevant for managers with lower absolute wage levels in particular. …

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Working time mismatch and job satisfaction - the role of employees' time autonomy and gender

Grund, Christian; Tilkes, Katja Rebecca - 2021

Evidence shows that working time mismatch, i.e. the difference between actual and desired working hours, is negatively related to employees' job satisfaction. Using longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we examine the potential moderating effect of working time autonomy on this...

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Workplace characteristics and employees' well-being : empirical analyses on job satisfaction, unhealthy lifestyles, and sickness absence

Rubin, Maike - 2022

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Working time mismatch and job satisfaction - the role of employees' time autonomy and gender

Grund, Christian; Tilkes, Katja Rebecca - 2021

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The role of employees’ age for the relation between job autonomy and sickness absence

Grund, Christian; Rubin, Maike - 2020

We investigate whether job autonomy is associated with employees' sickness absence. We can make use of the representative German Study of Mental Health at Work data. In line with our theoretical considerations, we do find evidence for an inverse relation between employees' job autonomy and days...

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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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Working time mismatch and job satisfaction : the role of employees' time autonomy and gender

Grund, Christian; Tilkes, Katja Rebecca - In: International journal of human resource management 34 (2023) 20, pp. 4003-4025

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