In this paper we examine the possibilities a principal in a public organization has to motivate agents for productivity … budgets and tasks across agents depending on the extent of productivity improvements revealed by each agent. We first show … schemes assigning tasks to agents who do not participate in the productivity improvement exercise …

moral codes, this article explores a theory of ethics, known as the “Hunt-Vitell” theory of ethics, that illuminates the … concept of personal moral codes and uses the theory to discuss which types of personal moral codes foster trust and distrust … in society. This article then uses resource-advantage (R-A) theory, one of the most completely articulated dynamic …