This article extends literature of Organizational Citizenship Behavior (OCB) in the context of corporate sustainability. The author presents the concept of Organizational Citizenship Behavior towards Sustainability (OCBS) as a variant, contending it's appropriateness for today's much needed...

Service organizations provide an environment for solving tasks given by customers. The performance of the organization is dependent on many factors including organizational structure, incentive structure and communication of knowledge within the organization. The manager assigns tasks to be...

Knowledge of cultural impacts helps project managers understanding of cultural perspectives of all stakeholders. Since cultural differences can become organizational performance barriers, it is important to consider how cultural dimensions can affect decision making. This paper uses the model...

This article contributes to the literature by indicating how certain monetary policies impact the compensation incentives of US managers to adopt riskier business policies. Specifically, based on the agency problems between shareholders and managers and between shareholders and creditors, a...

Baker (2002) has demonstrated theoretically that the quality of performance measures used in compensation contracts hinges on two characteristics: noise and distortion. These criteria, though, will only be useful in practice as long as the noise and distortion of a performance measure can be...

Basketball is one of the most practised sports in the world, especially in America. America has the most famous professional basketball league, the National Basketball Association (NBA). This study examines whether there is a relationship between the physical constitution of professional...

Die Sonderfrage im zweiten Quartal 2014 thematisiert die Folgen der neuen Regelungen zur Rente mit 63 in den Unternehmen. Der Beitrag stellt die Ergebnisse dieser Befragungen vor.

Das ifo Institut befragt im Auftrag und in Kooperation von Randstad vierteljährlich Personalleiter in mehr als 1 000 Unternehmen nach der Bedeutung von verschiedenen Flexibilisierungsinstrumenten. Zudem werden in jedem Quartal Sonderfragen zu aktuellen personalpolitischen Themen gestellt. Im...

We study effects of a firm's attempt to optimize an existing incentive scheme to increase sales growth for direct store delivery workers. Before optimization workers reported Ratchet Effects that lowered productivity. The altered incentive plan offered higher compensation for increased sales...

Using a unique nationally representative sample of U.S. establishments surveyed in both 1993 and 1996, we examine the relationship between workplace innovations and establishment productivity and wages. Using both cross-sectional and longitudinal data, we find evidence that high-performance...