"Employee participation in the capital or profit of the firm is regarded as a suitable way to increase labour productivity if the employees' performance can not be monitored directly. Nonetheless employee participation in asset formation is currently used by few German firms. In this paper we...

Dieser Beitrag zeigt auf Basis einer Befragung von Führungskräften eines internationalen Konzerns, unter welchen Bedingungen eine erfolgsabhängige Vergü-tung einen positiven Motivationseffekt erzielen kann. Neben einer positiven Ent-wicklung der Bonusauszahlung können weitere Faktoren die...

High performance workplace practices were extolled as an efficient means to increase firm productivity. The empirical evidence is disputed, however. To assess the productivity effects of a broad variety of measures, we simultaneously account for both unobserved heterogeneity and endogeneity...

Dieser Beitrag zeigt auf Basis einer Befragung von Führungskräften eines internationalen Konzerns, unter welchen Bedingungen eine erfolgsabhängige Vergü-tung einen positiven Motivationseffekt erzielen kann. Neben einer positiven Ent-wicklung der Bonusauszahlung können weitere Faktoren die...

High performance workplace practices were extolled as an efficient means to increase firm productivity. The empirical evidence is disputed, however. To assess the productivity effects of a broad variety of measures, we simultaneously account for both unobserved heterogeneity and endogeneity...

Employee involvement and financial incentives are often praised as effective means for increasing firm productivity. We assess the productivity effects of these human resource practices by accounting for the main sources of estimation bias – unobserved heterogeneity and endogeneity – and by...

"Employee participation in the capital or profit of the firm is regarded as a suitable way to increase labour productivity if the employees' performance can not be monitored directly. Nonetheless employee participation in asset formation is currently used by few German firms. In this paper we...