We analyze the effects of lower bounds on wages, e.g., minimum wages or liability limits, on job design within firms. In our model, two tasks contribute to non-veriable firm value and affect an imperfect performance measure. The tasks can be assigned to either one or two agents. In the absence...

Wenngleich die genaue Zahl der mittelständischen Unternehmen in Deutschland durchaus umstritten ist, so wird doch auf jeden Fall zunächst einmal der Handlungsbedarf im Bereich der Unternehmensnachfolge deutlich. Denn nahezu jede Übernahme eines bestehenden Unternehmens erfordert ein...

"Nachfolgeregelung durch Unternehmenskauf - Werkzeuge für die Bewertung und Finanzierung kleiner und mittelständischer Unternehmen im Rahmen einer externen Nachfolge" - die Themenstellung dieser Arbeit enthält zwei Schwerpunkte aus dem Gesamtprozess der Unternehmensnachfolge durch Verkauf: -...

Unternehmen sind immer stärker von dem eingestellten Personal und dessen Arbeitshaltung zu den Kunden und zum Arbeitgeber abhängig. Der Unternehmenserfolg ist eng mit ihrer Leistungsfähigkeit verknüpft. In Deutschland gibt es ein niedriges Krankheitsniveau, der Druck auf die Beschäftigten...

We present a dynamic model in which an employee of a firm searches for business projects in a changing environment. It is costly to induce the employee who found a successful project in the past period to search for a new project. Past success can therefore result in profitreducing corporate...

We investigate a team setting in which workers have different degrees of commitment to the outcome of their work. We show that if there are complementarities in production and if the team manager has some information about team members, interventions that the manager undertakes in order to...

How can a manager influence workers' activity while knowing little about it? This paper examines a situation where production requires several tasks, and the manager wants to direct production to achieve a preferred allocation of effort across tasks. However, the effort that is required for each...

We study the relation between formal incentives and social exchange in organizations where employees work for several managers and reciprocate to a manager's attention with higher effort. To this end we develop a common agency model with two-sided moral hazard. We show that when effort is...

Using survey data of public sector employees in the Netherlands, this paper shows that workers' satisfaction with various job domains not only affects whether but also where workers search for another job. An intuitive pattern emerges. Workers try to leave their current employer when their job...

We develop a model of manager-employee relationships where employees care more for their manager when they are more convinced that their manager cares for them. Managers can signal their altruistic feelings towards their employees in two ways: by offering a generous wage and by giving attention....