measures of motivation we find the returns to small firm investments in HRM are u-shaped. Small firms benefit from … are initially introduced, but can restore positive motivation when they invest intensively in HRM practices in a way that … employee motivation is modified somewhat by the recessionary transition, it remains rather robust and continues to have …

. However, in our model, the principal uses goal setting policies as a tool to manage agents’ intrinsic motivation. To capture … determine what becomes challenging and rewarding to them, and hence the intensity of their intrinsic motivation to achieve goals … with no intrinsic motivation in the form of informational rents but an agent with a mid-ranged standard (and hence …