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The power of participation? Power relations and processes in employee-owned companies
Steger, Thomas; Hartz, Ronald - In: Zeitschrift für Personalforschung (ZfP) 22 (2008) 2, pp. 152-170
Die Einführung von Mitarbeiterkapitalbeteiligung in einem Unternehmen lässt in der Regel auch die Machtverhältnisse und … beschrieben, in welchem Interaktionsverhältnis die Einführung von Mitarbeiterkapitalbeteiligung und die Machtverhältnisse und … sieben Thesen über das Verhältnis zwischen Mitarbeiterkapitalbeteiligung und Macht münden. …
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Incentives and prosocial behavior
Bénabou, Roland; Tirole, Jean - 2005
We develop a theory of prosocial behavior that combines heterogeneity in individual altruism and greed with concerns for social reputation or self-respect. Rewards or punishments (whether material or image-related) create doubt about the true motive for which good deeds are performed and this...
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Self-regulation through goal setting
Koch, Alexander K.; Nafziger, Julia - 2008
questions in a model based on two stylized facts from psychology and behavioral economics: i) Goals serve as reference points …
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Motivational goal bracketing
Koch, Alexander K.; Nafziger, Julia - 2009
It is a puzzle why people often evaluate consequences of choices separately (narrow bracketing) rather than jointly (broad bracketing). We study the hypothesis that a present-biased individual, who faces two tasks, may bracket his goals narrowly for motivational reasons. Goals motivate because...
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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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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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Wage dispersion and firm productivity in different working environments
Mahy, Benoît; Rycx, François; Volral, Mélanie - 2009
This paper investigates the impact of wage dispersion on firm productivity in different working environments. More …-shaped relationship between (conditional) wage dispersion and firm productivity. This result suggests that up to (beyond) a certain level …
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Do temporary contracts affect TFP? Evidence from Spanish manufacturing firms
Dolado, Juan José; Stucchi, Rodolfo - 2008
rates increase firm's productivity while high shares of temporary contracts decrease it. Both effects are quantitatively …
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Produktivitätseffekte betrieblicher Zusatzleistungen
Lutz, Roman - 2005
This paper investigates the productivity effects of five different forms of employee benefits. The data being used is … fringe benefits affect a firm's productivity in a positive manner. Analyzing the sum of all fringe benefits, a positive … relationship between the existence of employee benefits and firm-level productivity is found. However, this is not the case for …
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