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The Effect of Noise in a Performance Measure on Work Motivation
Sloof, Randolph; van Praag, C. Mirjam - 2008
This paper reports the results of an individual real effort laboratory experiment where subjects are paid for measured performance. Measured performance equals actual performance plus noise. We compare a stable environment where the noise is small with a volatile environment where the noise is...
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The European Labour Markets - Disincentive Effects of Unemployment Benefits on the Paths Out of Unemployment
Portugal, Pedro; Addison, John - In: CESifo Forum 05 (2004) 1, pp. 24-30
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Who benefits from benefits? Empirical research on tangible incentives
Hammermann, Andrea; Mohnen, Alwine - 2012
Although a broad field of literature on incentive theory exists, employer-provided tangible goods (hereafter called benefits) have so far been neglected by economic research. A remarkable exception is an empirical study by Oyer (2008). In our study, we test some of his findings by drawing on a...
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Motivación, factores intrínsecos y performance: Un estudio sobre empresas del área metropolitana de Buenos Aires
Terlato, Alberto Néstor - 2018
Being able to manage growth, improve results, change behavioral attitudes and innovate are legitimate aspirations in the search for an improved performance, even though they are not the only ones. At the beginning, it was believed that productive specialization and scale would be sufficient to...
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Substitution between managers and subordinates: evidence from British football
Bridgewater, Sue; Kahn, Lawrence M.; Goodall, Amanda H. - 2009
We use data on British football managers and teams over the 1994-2007 period to study substitution and complementarity between leaders and subordinates. We find for the Premier League (the highest level of competition) that, other things being equal, managers who themselves played at a higher...
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Personalführung in der öffentlichen Verwaltung in Zeiten des demographischen Wandels: Eine Untersuchung der Wirkung altersspezifischer Führung auf die Arbeitsbeziehung von Führungs...
von Kalm, Nicolas - 2013
maintain or even enhance the employees working ability studies identified the quality of leadership. The following thesis … brings the concept of age-related leadership into focus, which deals with the individual, age-related needs of the employees …'. It examines the relationship between leaders age-related leadership behaviors and followers' perception of quality of …
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Domains of reciprocity beyond monetary compensation: How do non-pecuniary factors affect effort and shirking?
Tomohara, Akinori; Ohno, Akihiko - In: Cogent Economics & Finance 4 (2016) 1, pp. 1-14
This empirical study examines how sources of reciprocity are related to work motivation by distinguishing positive and negative work attitudes in practical working environments. We move away from the unidimensional perspective of monetary compensation and investigate employees' reciprocal...
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Socially Useless Jobs
Dur, Robert; van Lent, Max - 2018
It has been claimed that many workers in modern economies think that their job is socially useless, i.e. that it makes no or a negative contribution to society. However, the evidence so far is mainly anecdotal. We use a representative dataset comprising 100,000 workers from 47 countries at four...
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Socially Useless Jobs
Dur, Robert A. J.; van Lent, Max - 2018
It has been claimed that many workers in modern economies think that their job is socially useless, i.e. that it makes no or a negative contribution to society. However, the evidence so far is mainly anecdotal. We use a representative dataset comprising 100,000 workers from 47 countries at four...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011819549
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Driving performance at the National Transportation Safety Committee: The mediating role of engagement and motivation in transformational leadership
Kuntadi, Cris; Widyanty, Winda; Nurhidajat, R.; … - In: Cogent Business & Management 10 (2023) 3, pp. 1-20
This study aims to analyze the influence of transformational leadership on the employee performance of National … employees, ensuring complete coverage and representation. The results of this study indicate that transformational leadership … study provides fresh insights and validates extant knowledge on transformational leadership, work engagement, work …
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