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This study suggests the concept of Metabolism of organization that explains how public organizations use and/or transform inputs (mainly public funding) to produce and supply products and services. This approach is useful for analyzing costs and supporting best practices of management to...
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The term ‘incentive' (from Latin incentivum ‘something that sets the tune') is a tangible and/or intangible reward that motivates people and creates favorable environmental conditions to maximize performance to achieve specific goals in organization or competition and/or society
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In the field of finance and accounting, ratio analyses have become the preliminary concentration prior to progressing to any advanced discussion. The same is true for numerous studies on quality of employees. It may be relatively safe to say that the true connections between the two, if any, may...
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This paper develops a simple economic model to examine how leadership styles in organizations depend on the prevailing … incentives - motivate a worker by adopting leadership styles that differ in their non-monetary consequences for the worker's well …-being. Some leadership styles produce non-monetary benefits for workers (such as those involving the provision of praise to high …
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explaining how work meaningfulness influences effort at work. In our model, motivation decreases the disutility of exerting … needs from working enhances work meaningfulness, motivation, and effort, providing valuable insights for economic models of …
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In this paper the issues from the personnel economics has been investigated. The issues such as training of workers from Becker's human capital theory and their association with the workers' productivity. In the second part of the paper the issue of grooming has been investigated in relation...
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In this paper the issues from the personnel economics has been investigated. The issues such as training of workers from Becker’s human capital theory and their association with the workers’ productivity. In the second part of the paper the issue of grooming has been investigated in relation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014149205
This paper theoretically and empirically examines the impact of self-managed working time (SMWT) on employee effort. As … a means of increased worker autonomy, SMWT can theoretically increase effort via intrinsic motivation and reciprocal … intrinsically motivated, suggesting that intrinsic motivation is complementary to SMWT. However, reciprocal work intensification …
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motivation are determinants for explaining managers' thinking about the importance of budgets. The hierarchical level of each …
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We develop a model where people differ in their altruistic preferences and can serve the public interest in two ways: by making donations to charity and by taking a public service job and exerting effort on the job. Our theory predicts that people who are more altruistic are more likely to take...
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