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Is self-leadership the new silver bullet of leadership? : an empirical test of the relationship between self-leadership and organizational commitment
Pihl-Thingvad, Signe - In: Management revue : socio-economic studies 25 (2014) 2, pp. 103-124
Self-leadership is theoretically assumed to be the key management approach in modern knowledge work because it strengthens the employees' commitment. This study examines the relationship between self-leadership and affective organizational commitment empirically. An underlying assumption in the...
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Managing social comparison costs in organizations
Contreras, Óscar F.; Zanarone, Giorgio - 2018
This paper studies how organizations manage the social comparisons that arise when their employees' pay and tasks, and hence their status vis-à-vis peers, differ. We show that under a "pay transparency policy", the organization may compress pay and distort the employees' tasks to minimize...
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The evolution of work from home
Barrero, Jose Maria; Bloom, Nicholas; Davis, Steven J. - 2023
Full days worked at home account for 28 percent of paid workdays among Americans 20-64 years old, as of mid 2023, according to the Survey of Working Arrangements and Attitudes. That's about four times the 2019 rate and ten times the rate in the mid-1990s that we estimate in time-use data. We...
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The Evolution of Work from Home
Barrero, Jose Maria; Bloom, Nicholas; Davis, Steven J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Full days worked at home account for 28 percent of paid workdays among Americans 20-64 years old, as of mid 2023, according to the Survey of Working Arrangements and Attitudes. That's about four times the 2019 rate and ten times the rate in the mid-1990s that we estimate in time-use data. We...
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Does relative performance information lower group morale?
Heursen, Lea - 2019 - This version: December 2019
In many organizations, productivity relies not just on individual effort but also on group morale, that is, the willingness of co-workers to help each other perform better at work. Relative performance evaluations (RPE) are known to increase individual work morale but may negatively affect group...
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Personal information disclosure under competition for benefits : is sharing caring?
Ackfeld, Viola; Güth, Werner - 2019
comparison and incentives to disclose potentially privacy-sensitive information. We find that information sharing is higher under … incentives, and further increases under peer comparison. This effect is driven by those initially disclosing less, who …
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Shining lights and bad apples : the effect of goal-setting on group performance
Curşeu, Petru L.; Janssen, Steffie E. A.; Meeus, Marius T. - In: Management learning : the journal for managerial and … 45 (2014) 3, pp. 332-348
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Difficult cost goals and conflicting honesty incentives : the influence of decision responsibility
Libby, Theresa; Proell, Chad A.; Smith, Steven D. - In: Journal of management accounting research : JMAR 31 (2019) 3, pp. 185-200
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Gender differences in absence from work: Lessons from two world wars
Karlsson, Tobias - 2016
This paper traces the origins and early history of perceived gender differences in absenteeism in Great Britain and the USA. Among politicians and scholars, the problem was first articulated during World War I and reappeared as an issue of prime concern during World War II. The war efforts...
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Social connections and incentives in the workplace : evidence from personnel data
Bandiera, Oriana (contributor); Barankay, Iwan (contributor) - 2008
the effects of social connections vary with the strength of managerial incentives and worker's ability. To do so, we … engineered an exogenous change in managerial incentives, from fixed wages, to bonuses based on the average productivity of the …. -- Favoritism ; managerial incentives ; natural field experiment …
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