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Promotion incentives in the public sector : evidence from Chinese schools
Karachiwalla, Naureen; Park, Albert - 2017
promotions for teachers. Predictions from a tournament model of promotion are tested using retrospective panel data on primary …
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A theory of intra-firm group design
Tumen, Semih - 2015 - Forthcoming in: Journal of Productivity Analysis
I develop an intra-firm theory of group design and teamwork in the presence of peer effects. The purpose is to understand the interlinkages between intra-firm group formation and the extent of wage dispersion within the firm. Given a set of heterogeneous workers, the manager faces the challenge...
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A Theory of Intra-Firm Group Design
Tumen, Semih - 2015
I develop an intra-firm theory of group design and teamwork in the presence of peer effects. The purpose is to understand the interlinkages between intra-firm group formation and the extent of wage dispersion within the firm. Given a set of heterogeneous workers, the manager faces the challenge...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013012037
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Wage floors, imperfect performance measures, and optimal job design : conference paper
Kragl, Jenny; Schöttner, Anja - 2013
We analyze the effects of wage floors on optimal job design in a moral-hazard model with asymmetric tasks and imperfect aggregate performance measurement. Due to cost advantages of specialization, assigning the tasks to different agents is efficient. A sufficiently high wage floor, however,...
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Complex job design and layers of hierarchy
Russo, Giovanni; Houten, Gijs van - 2021
The main function of hierarchies is to coordinate activities within an organisation, but a hierarchical structure also provides work incentives, by offering the prospect of hierarchical mobility. An alternative way for organisations to motivate workers is through job design. In organisations...
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Organizational Design and Control Choices
Hofmann, Christian - 2015
Building on new insights from organizational economics, management accounting researchers have highlighted how incentive contracts and performance measure choices complement structural arrangements in firms. We discuss how “slow moving” elements in organizational design, such as the...
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Delegation, promotion, and manager selection
Häusinger, Benjamin - 2019
Promotions serve two purposes. They ought to provide incentives for employees and to select the best employee for a … managerial decision rights and performance-based promotions leads to a situation often referred to as the Peter principle … performance-based promotions and restricting managerial decision rights. …
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The dangers of dispersal of responsibilities
Burlea, Adriana Schiopoiu; Remmé, Joop - In: Amfiteatru economic : an economic and business research … 19 (2017) 45, pp. 464-476
Taking into account that it is in the nature of the modern corporat ion that risks are distributed over several agents, we discuss in this paper the organisational behaviour as it results from such dispersal of responsibilities for both the principal and the agent. We explore the hypothesis that...
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Hierarchical Control and Altruistic Differences
Farlee, Mitchell A. - 2010
Comparison of three related adverse selection models is presented. There is a selfish owner, a selfish employee, and an imperfectly altruistic employee. Model 1 involves hiring choice. The owner hires the altruist because he produces the same for less pay due to his positive externality for the...
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Demand Complementarity and Mergers and Acquisitions
Jia, Xiao; Sun, Stephen Teng - 2022
Demand complementarity emerges when the outputs of firms from distinct industries are used by similar end-users. This paper constructs a measure of the pairwise demand complementarity of firms and examines whether demand complementarity is a key determinant in mergers and acquisitions. Under our...
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